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Re: Happy Birthday

#2721 Post by LAT » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:30 am

Happy birthday Laura, hope you have a wonderful day! :D
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#2722 Post by maisie ladybird » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:30 am

Happy Birthday Laura, hope you have a lovely day! :D
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2723 Post by eirian » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:21 am

Happy Birthday, Laura

(and belated happy birthday, BB)
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2724 Post by Scurra » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:35 am

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Re: Happy Birthday

#2725 Post by giraffe » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:41 am

Happy birthday from the giraffes too.
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2726 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:38 am

Many happy returns of the day!! Hope the cake was nice... ;)
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2727 Post by chazzie » Sat Apr 06, 2013 1:01 pm

Happy Birthday Laura - hoping you are having a great day!
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2728 Post by Laura » Sat Apr 06, 2013 6:53 pm

Thank you all! I've had the little ones staying over, so we started with Birthday Breakfast, then went to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park for the day, and have just had Birthday Tea (Roo composed a special Party Tea song on the piano for us) complete with Mary Berry Easter Lemon Pavlova as birthday cake.
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2729 Post by Wulfruna » Sat Apr 06, 2013 7:14 pm

Happy Birthday Laura. Sounds as if you're having a lovely day :D
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2730 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:46 pm

Laura - how did the cake turn out? The one K made tasted yummy but she did have trouble making the nest shapes.

BTW I just looked at your age. Better make the most of this year... :lol:
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2731 Post by Laura » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:50 pm

The age thing is fine - this time next year I will be at Sheffield arena watching Miranda Hart. The tickets are already booked. I'm looking forward to turning 30 if only for that!!

The cake was lovely. We had no problem with the nests (I say we; my mum made it all and she's very good!), just couldn't find a plate big enough to put the blooming thing on. There's now a quarter of it left and that's taking up a whole dinner plate in the fridge!!!
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2732 Post by giraffe » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:25 pm

Where did you get the recipe from?
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2733 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:28 pm

I think it was this one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/easte ... lova_99601
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2734 Post by giraffe » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:50 pm

Sounds yummy.
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2735 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:53 pm

It was. :D Especially as I didn't make it. :lol:
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2736 Post by Laura » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:56 pm

What she said!!!
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2737 Post by giraffe » Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:14 pm

Is lemon a traditional easter thing, or is it because of the colour yellow being associated with daffodils and chicks and things? The supermarket were selling off all the lemon flavoured cakes last week, for silly prices despite them still having 3 weeks left on their sell by dates.
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2738 Post by Wulfruna » Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:41 pm

I think it is probably just that this is the season for citrus fruits - so lemons are traditionally readily available, especially in the Mediterranean region.
The other thing is the way the people seem to have rediscovered lemon drizzle cake, which has suddenly made lemon flavour all the rage. I originally got the lemon cake recipe (with a lovely crunchy topping) from my mother-in-law around 40 years ago after she had it passed on by a friend, but never came across it anywhere else at that time.
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2739 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:52 pm

The cake Laura had for her birthday has lovely crystallised lemon peel on it. That was the best bit. :D
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Re: Happy Birthday

#2740 Post by gill216 » Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:27 am

Belated happy birthday Laura. That cake looks yummy.
The other thing is the way the people seem to have rediscovered lemon drizzle cake,
I make orange drizzle cake regularly.
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