Blue Food, Mummy!

[lathany]

I've spent the last twenty-four hours pretending to be a proper mother.

This week is the last week of term and thus the last week of both toddler groups which are run at the local schools. Both decided to end the year in the same way - with a children's party. Today was just a party, tomorrow will be fancy dress.

So yesterday afternoon and evening I got out my old cookbook (it's My Learn To Cookbook and was an eighth - or so - birthday present) and proceeded to make fairy cakes. Thirty-six in total, twelve with white rose water icing (too weakly flavoured to really taste), twelve with white vanilla icing and twelve with blue vanilla icing. About half were decorated with a jelly diamond and the other half with sugar strands. The cooking was fun and brought back old memories from living at home when I used to make cakes on a semi-regular basis. Twelve cakes went to Feltham Hill mother and toddler group today and were a great success.

However, tomorrow's party is supposed to be fancy dress and the duo, sadly, don't actually have any. Consequently, I borrowed the car at lunchtime today to drive to the Tesco at Sunbury (the nearest one which sells clothes) to buy some. I was disappointed. It seems that Tesco only sell fancy dress at Christmas. However bateleur has offered to face-paint the party-goers tomorrow, so there is still some hope of matching the spirit of the event.

The whole occasion, however, has felt very strange. I feel like I'm playing at Happy Families. Only in a "this is real" sort of way.

Comments

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

the duo, sadly, don't actually have any

I always thought that's what sheets were for. I suppose someone is going to say that kids expect proper costumes now.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Remember, the point of fancy dress is that it should be reusable in FLRP. I say dress them as latex-weapon-wielding goblins, and take them out on Shotover Common later in the week.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I shall start teaching Bea to say "We're Brandelllers" at once, then.

[venta.livejournal.com]

So long as you make sure you teach her the proper context to say it in :)

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

That'll confuse the Nocturnees right proper! ;-)

[triskellian]

I don't think we're in Nocturne any more, Toto!

(AFAIK, they've switched to daytimes, and adopted a new world.)

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

For future reference Woolworths and Toys (backwards)R Us both sell fancy dress. Do you have any near you? We have so many fancy dress for kids shops near us that I could be commisioned to get you something if not.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

We've nothing close. However the Early Learning Centre has fancy dress and on-line shopping. Additionally, having missed tomorrow, there's unlikely to be a requirement before September (I might even get to Oxford myself by then).

Thanks for offering, though :-)

FLRP

[huggyrei.livejournal.com]

We're playing the White City now (http://www.flrp.anang.com/whitecity/). Oh, and it's being called LARP not FLRP officially, but we all call it FLRP anyway, else it just gets confusing.