#4 Say it with Sugar

There's not much better in life than cake...  Except maybe...

SURPRISE CAKE!!

Now I'll admit I'm cheating a bit here.  I'm no stranger to baking for people.  And the cake-recipient did just have a birthday, so it wasn't an entirely random 'hello'...

But still, it was a surprise, and a seemingly welcome one at that, so I thought it was worth a mention here.

Here are the cakes ready to be sent out into the world:

They're based on the tale of 'The Gingerbread Man'.  The cupcakes are ginger with lime drizzle icing and a secret thing hiding inside.  They come with a gingerbread fox and four mini men displaying various emotions.

Conclusion:  I've yet to meet anyone who would not appreciate a surprise gift of cake.

Counter-Day-Tripping

Me and my partner-in-crime thought it was high time for a bit of experimental travel, so having booked time off work, we trundled off to spend a sunny Wednesday in... Morecambe.

We parked up on the outskirts of town in Bare (home of the Bare Boys' Brigade) and headed straight for our target counter-tourist attraction - Graham Ibbeson's statue of the late comedian Eric Morecambe.  Following the rules of counter-tourism, we then turned our backs on Eric, and took photos not of him but of what he could see - including any normal tourists that happened to be snapping him at the time...

This mission accomplished, it was time for spontaneity to take over.  As neither of us were familiar with the area, we wandered around keeping our eyes open for any potential sources of recreation - and we found it in abundance!

Here are some things I never expected to do in Morecambe:

• Climb a mountain or two...

• See lots of street / beach art...
  

• Lunch like Poirot...

• Play hopscotch...

• Do a  bird-search...

• Win on the slots...

• Perform some pavement poetry...

All in all, a fantastic day out, made all the more exciting by experimentality.  

Thank you for having us Morecambe!