Biting off more than I can chew
And that’s a hell of a lot as I have a very big mouth, and eyes bigger than my belly (perhaps I should join the circus as the freak act). I have had a feeling of deep foreboding in the pit of my stomach since I enrolled for the cake decorating and sugar craft course. I found out a while ago when the courses ran and rang them to get information. All the courses were very popular and I was told that I was going on a waiting list at one place and with the other place I was told to ring back in December. I decided to ring them tonight to see if I could enrol and was told I needed to go there to do that. I arrived at the college after a bit of arguing over directions and ringing back to get instructions and after filling in the form to enrol was told there were two different courses for different abilities. One was an absolute beginners course (the one I need to be on) and one for more experienced decorators (i.e. not me). The only problem is, the beginners course starts when I’m at work. So being me, I decided the small matter of me having zero experience with decorating wasn’t a problem. Thirty-eight pounds later I’m all signed up, oh God!
The stupidity of what I’ve done is starting to slowly sink in. Why can’t I ever be patient? Phoning the other place again might have been an idea also, but after driving out there it seemed a shame to come away with nothing. Well, wish me luck! I’ll just have to flutter my eyelashes sweetly and hope they take pity on me, that and buy a cake decorating book immediately and get making cakes from now until January!
We cooked the pork last night and it was very nice. It was a tad overcooked as we wanted to get really good crackling. I think next time I might put the temperature up higher initially to get the crackling going or take the crackling off at the end and cook it separately for the last while. The taste of the pork was really nice and the stuffing worked out well too. I won’t be buying a joint of meat from the supermarket again if I can help it and if everybody tries to buy free range it will hopefully become cheaper for us all :-).
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