Making my Vintage tea and Easter Simnel Cake

Well first you have to prepare yourself - this is done by the selection of the correct apron  and here you need to take into account a) the season b) weather for that day c) amount of food stuffs that might be dropped down apron d) size of own waist...

This apron is particularly jolly and went well with my vintage dress for the jour

Then trot out into the garden and scrounge round looking desperately for flowers.....I should add here that we have a very small garden and very few flowers at the moment - I made do with violets and polys

The eagle-eyed amongst you will notice that this is the cake plate that matches my china from a post the other day.  Arrange flowers - tra la la - paint with egg white and dust with caster sugar - tra la la again!

Bake simple fruit cake as per BBC recipe...then realise that you cannot find THE cake tin that you need.  Think very hard - Easter Sunday - not the best time to purchase a cake tin - use an old saucepan instead...

Turn out your cake onto a nice very old cake rack.....thus diverting gaze from cake that looks a bit saucepan shaped!!!

Whilst your cake cools down spend a little toooo long sorting out the right tablecloth - a few changes later you feel that you might have found the right ones..change your mind once again and then for crying out loud let it go!!!

Do some frou frou'ing and add extra embellishments...pick a few final flowers from the garden (what's not to love about a hellebore). Simple and cost free - put in a pretty cup

Then decorate your cake - not with giant marzipan balls but delicate little ones....oh dear...place your frosted flowers in the middle - tra la la

Begin to wonder why you decided to crimp the edges of your marzipan - realise that worst things happen at sea and for crying out loud move on again!!

Sort out some suitable china for time of year...

Resist the temptation to fish out other spring china that you know is hiding under the bed.....

Final tra la la....

Oh...not quite...decide that the other tablecloth looks better....

No I didn't change the china around again - what do you think I am !!!!!

Best wishes
Jenny
PS If these appear on pinterest I will explode!  Thank you for all tips and advice about this - I notice that dear Mary from The Vintage Cottage has had her photographs used on Pinterest with her writing on them carefully removed - nothing stops some people I guess.  I am working on how to add the 'no pin' segment into the blog - it is a bit complicated in this format.  No thanks to Michelle Cresswell who managed to pin my most recent photo of my lovely cup from the previous post and some others already onto Pinterest  - I am now getting cross and will name and shame those who seem to think that I spend my time here purely to fill the pages of others...so there and I do not care what your reason is so do not bother replying - so there again! Now see what you have done - you have reduced me to being like one of my children!
Update: Despite the risk of explosion these photos have indeed appeared on Pinterest and addressed accordingly. Strange as it may seem to some I am not a repository of photographs just waiting for you to use them elsewhere.....