cake and running

Baked rather nice ginger cake. Needs more practice - I used a tin that was too big, so it ended up wider and thinner than it should have. But then you can't buy a new tin every time you make a cake. I'll just have to make more mix next time and create a GIANT CAKE.

I rallied the troops on Sunday night for a late evening run around Richmond Park. It was about an hour before dusk and raining a little, which meant that the park was relatively quiet. There were four of us, although within 20 minutes we'd all lost sight of each other (despite GB wearing his enormous luminous yellow waterproof that could be used to flag down the aeroplanes going into heathrow), so most of the hour was spent alone with just the deer for company. They're pretty used to luminous-clad runners in the park, so they will happily congregate close to the paths. At the moment, all the teenage lads in the deer world are sporting those mini-antlers covered in velvet. So beautiful.