sweeping up the crumbs

• ...ly cold
• is in bed with a beast
• had a long car journey with a furry hot water bottle on my lap, a careful cat to pet during motorway snares
• experimental patisserie: chocolate log with white chocolate buttercream, necessity of almost-midnight urges.
• drunk in charge of a kenwood. Watch me beat this butter. No mercy.
• the streets sparkle with rhinestone, the stars as lanterns in a dark blanket
• coffee;hot, heels;high, children;happy, cake;heavenly. Surely that's enough for the now.
• spontaneous cake baking once again. It makes me feel better.
• christmas cheer interruptus with vomiting child.
• The couple at the next table are rowing with muttered threats and badly aimed maliciousness
• is wearing a festive hat and silky stockings
• while drunk last night i slipped a barebacking reference into the conversation, just to watch friends' husbands choke on their shirazes
• chocolate truffle cake for breakfast. Now i have cocoa fingerprints on my keyboard.
• shiraz never tasted so good. And Blade Runner too.
• is heading out into the cold, with intent
• went to sleep with a broken clit

• Father christmas is putting on his boots and his whiskers in my office
• flirting with Father Christmas on the phone. There is a rendevous planned for tomorrow.
• an excess of chocolate buttercream will not wasted
• there is noone here to help me, so i get to eat all the soft mallowy trimmed edges of the chocolate roulade myself
• buche de noel and crackle glaze double chocolate fruit and nut cookies
• gigi is getting a new baby sister. Tomorrow.
• needs a temporary gigi replacement. Something small and fuzzy.
• is gigi-less and blue