A slight case of overblogging

So, I'm now running 5 days late and counting. I saw the midwife on Monday and she reckons baby may well turn up of its own accord at the weekend - but all is well in the meantime and there's no need to try do anything to hurry it up just yet. Seeing them again next Monday. Quite happy to continue to potter about and enjoy all this unexpected leisure time - definitely not bored yet.

So what I have I been up to? We bought a new bird table from the RSPB and built it. I've finished the last Wheel of Time book (review on librarything), read a book on coping with starting a family from Relate (review on librarything) and started the next in Tad Williams' Shadowmarch series. I finished my jigsaw. Clare came round for lunch at my house, I took cake round to visit Lucy and Edward, and I've had lunch in town with Cat from our NCT antenatal group (3 of whom now have baby boys - the rest of us are still waiting). The internet did a good impression of being fixed for 10 days, and then broke again, so I've got another engineer booked for Monday (if I'm around!). And today I've done some more baking - chocolate fudge cake (using this cake recipe and this icing recipe) and cornflake cakes (using up the icing, which turned out to be about twice as much as needed). It's all good.

So I had a couple of days of annual leave to use up before the end of the Academic Year (which starts on 1st October) so I took Thursday and Friday off work with no particular plans. Yesterday (as some of you on Facebook already know) I:

• Had a lie-in
• Received maternity clothes from a nice lady online in the post
• Sorted all my clothes into charity, still-fits and put-away-for-later
• Tidied the bedroom
• Put together a bag of stuff to put out for charity tomorrow morning
• Wrote to Greater Anglia about train tickets
• Made my list of books and have takers for quite a few!
• Did some washing
• Had a nice lunch
• Did a bit of knitting after tea

Today was almost equally useful:

• Got up as early as usual for no particularly good reason
• Remembered to put the charity bag out in time for collection
• Cycled into town and back
• Picked up, and tried on my online maternity clothes shopping in New Look and Next
• Returned the items which didn't fit - getting a £28 refund
• Had a delivery from Ocado and ranted about them sending me free things I don't want
• Had another nice lunch - a real jacket spud done in the oven!
• Baked some buns!

Does anyone want a bottle of Sweet Freedom sugar substitute? Made from apples, grapes and carob apparently!

Anyway, buns. OK so the recipe calls them "The Hummingbird Bakery's Dark Chocolate Cupcakes" but they are blatantly buns. Only made 2/3 quantity of icing ("frosting") and used 72% cocoa chocolate on top rather than a mix of 70%/85%, but I have to say they look pretty good. I admit I did completely forget I wasn't supposed to lick the spoon when the cake mix has raw egg in it though! Mmmm.