In which there are photography problems, but more cake

Once again I have had a terrible lapse in blogging. I hope I can make it up to you through an outfit post, pictures of cake and a small amount of despising David Cameron.

I really thought there would be a longer gap between the times I put up pictures of cake. I would like to claim that I have been ridiculously busy saving the world from evil. Instead the only thing I have been busy with is conquering the world, on Civilisation IV.

I did have a mini holiday-type-thing to Yorkshire. It was mostly to look at wedding venues, but I did get to sample Wedding cake Prototype 2. Now I did have a problem with my camera, but both lots of photos I am going to show you. If you are good with cameras please help me here. These photos are wrong. The colour of the cake is wrong. I also took some photos of me in a green jumper, below, and the jumper is blue. I held my camera over the sleeve and altered all the settings I could, the exposure, the ISO, anything that could be altered. It continued to show the jumper as blue and the cake as grey – when it was green and bright purple I was trying to capture. Any tips? Should I just alter them post-photography with some software another time?

So –the cake. This time it was thick chocolate, very solid and rich. The little nodules on the top were marzipan, rather than cake and we agreed, a little too small. The icing was much thinner than the previous attempt, but did get very sticky. There may yet be more attempts before we are done!

These outfit photos make me despair a little. The sun was shining too brightly to capture the pattern on the skirt and, as noted above, the colours are wrong. As it is I feel you can get the gist of yesterday’s clothes, not the full understanding.

This jumper is actually green

Being silly

Cameo necklace. This is actually broken and I have to fix it with pliers nearly every time I wear it.

Socks with bows make me very happy

Oh and David Cameron? Well he announced that young people shouldn’t have housing benefit in a stunning display of callousness. I have read through his entire speech on the matter and cannot even understand his logic as he contradicts himself. I am so filled with rage at the way the Conservatives are ruining the lives of young people with astounding ageism and ignorance that I found myself unable to sleep the other night. I was lying awake in bed thinking of all the reasons it was a terrible idea. I fear the future of this country where so many people truly believe that the benefit system is somehow cosy, without understanding what it is like to live without dignity and have barely enough to feed yourself. I truly hope that this is a half-baked idea to appeal to conservative idiots. I hope David Cameron remembers that under 25s can vote.

Now that I have got my rage onto the internet, I will leave you with a lovely shot of a ruined abbey in Yorkshire. 

In which there is Lego cake

I promised a while back that this wouldn’t turn into a wedding blog now that I am engaged, but there are some things that are just too much fun not to share. It’s also possible that it will ruin the surprise, but I have no idea how I am going to last a year without being all ‘Look at the things!’ I just have to share some of it in order to allow me to keep quiet about the other surprises. So my mum is making our wedding cake and has got really into it. She has got out the cake books, made sketches and done prototypes. I would like to share with you Prototype 1. (Prototype 2 is to be tried in a couple of weeks). I have to apologise for one thing. My family had eaten quite a bit of it before I thought of taking pictures. It was actually based on a 4x2 blue Lego brick. I hope you can imagine the rest.

Engagement Present cake tins.

Note that even the little nodules have cake inside.

I also had a beautiful picnic the other week when Britain was enjoying its 2 weeks on sunshine. We did home-made bagel salmon sandwiches, drank Pimms and played Canasta in the park. I’m not exactly living the wild ‘twenties-something in London’ life, but it’s good. I have also been playing endless amounts of Star Ocean: Till the End of Time. It’s an RPG for the PlayStation 2 and is great fun. These last few weeks I have been playing it nearly every night. I’ve clocked up nearly 90 hours and I’ve unlocked the final area to reach the final boss!

The view from our picnic spot

Picnic lunchbox. Stuffed with food.

For a fashion blog I am afraid I have no new and exciting outfits to wear. I hate to point the blame (but I’m about to) all the photos my boy took of me last time we attempted it were blurry or my face looked weird. Maybe I actually have a weird lopsided expression all the time… Anyhow I now have a tripod! So if the summer sun returns I am going to play around and see if I can work something out. It’s a whole new area for me.  

Along with my tripod my parents also brought down a whole bunch of other stuff which has allowed me to set up the perfect Neil Gaiman collection, complete with ghost figure on top of The Graveyard Book.

All my favourite books in one place!

In which I ponder

I am obliged to begin my post with Follow my blog with bloglovin if I wish to gain any more interest in my writings it appears. It seems a little dictorial, I'd rather it was just an option on the side but hey. I am a little disappointed that I have been writing here for months and have had so little interest I confess. I am just wondering if my exploits are just not daring enough.
However I enjoy writing this and keeping myself busy with it and it reminds me to keep exploring new ways of making origami defeat the world.
It was my birthday yesterday and I had a most fantastic day. I ate japanese food, hung out with some friends (even superheroes have some friends) and received a most beautiful mock-vintage record player. However woke up this morning with a letter from the tax man saying he will well be taxing me. Never fun at all. I'm pretty stressed about money at the moment I confess.
Apparantly stopping crime doesn't pay. :)
I will write a little bit more about my recent adventures shortly. For now I will leave you with a picture of a cake, because it makes me happy.