Mar 09 2008
Houston, We Have Problem
Dougal, my hunch was right. We are way behind on puddings. In fact, whilst we are over 20% of the way through the challenge, at about 20% of the way through the year, we are a pitiful 13% of the way through the puddings. In fact, if we want to get through all the remaining Puddings, Cookies and Muffins (not to mention the Hot Drinks and, heck, the Cocktails) then we will have to do a Pudding every week from now until the end of the year. Some weeks we’ll need to do two!
Indeed, of 54 treats in the book, we have managed only 7. This is probably mostly down to feeling there ought to be an occasion for a pudding or cake, so we’ve managed it when we’ve had friends over for dinner but almost never gone to the effort for just the two of us. After all, it would be a waste to make some of these dishes and not share them! In fact, looking at the stats, we’ve never made a pudding for just the two of us. It’s always been when we’ve had friends round or when we are going out to friends.
We had been talking of introducing a Sunday night ‘Pudding and a Pot of Tea’ tradition, to see more of our friends and help us through the challenge. This may be more necessary than we’d thought!
parents more than happy to eat puddings, though Sunday night not free till after our Stenton concert on 13th April.