VERY QUIET!!

You could hear a pin drop in this house at the moment. (Love that expression. It always reminds me of my lovely Gran for some reason.) Charles is away for the day, Christina has returned after a day at work and is in her room, probably asleep. The girls are gazing out of their window ans, as nothing is happening in Fram right now, they are being extremely quiet, which is a bit unusual actually. So unusual, I've just been to check that they're not getting into trouble, but they're not at all. Been a bit of a mixed day today. I started early with some fairly leisurely baking. Just needed to do two quiche, three tray bakes and a couple of apple cakes. I tried one of these with blackberries as well as the apples so it'll be interesting to see how that turns out. Then I drove over to Gosforth to the cake decorating shop to collect some bits and pieces for the Christmas wedding cake that I'm making for a certain niece. I just wanted to make a start on the foliage today, so I've spent a couple of hours doing that and not I've got a tray full of leaves and berries ready to be painted tomorrow. Foolishly I decided earlier this afternoon to clean the oven and have applied the stuff only to discover it recommends leaving it on overnight. So whatever we have for tea will have to be cooked on the hob. Soup it is then. Or beans. Or cheese on toast - I could use the grill of course. Time to catch up with facebook for a while I think...