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October 31, 2005
The year when even the kitchen worktop got in the mood.
I made a pumpkin cake this year, not a cake made out of pumpkin (as I had to explain to someone today who asked for the recipe thinking it was something akin to pumpkin pie) but a chocolate cake with an iced pumpkin decoration on top. I cannot wait until I can find the lead thingy so I can upload my photos as I’m so utterly proud of my creation. The colours are not so bright as I would have liked but that’s the problem with doing it yourself, you can see how much food colouring goes in and you can begin the panic at the thought of your kids glowing back to school in the morning. So the pumpkin looks a little washed out but I think there is no mistaking what he is supposed to be. Move over Jane Asher Purple Elephant has arrived.
The stain on my worktop that resembles dried blood and the rims of my fingernails that look worryingly similar are not intentional but hush don’t tell anyone, we can pretend it’s all part of the effect and we might just get away with it.
Our real carved pumpkin is sitting on out window sill right now. This year I’ve christened him.... wait for it .... The Elephant Pumpkin! Not because he lives in our house but because I left his purchase a little late this year and on Saturday evening I was left with all the lopsided vegetables that everyone else had rejected. One of his cheeks is a little more swollen than the other and the back of his head is actually flat but we love him all the same and won’t be sending him to perform the Cambridge Freak show for Deformed Pumpkins just yet.
What do you mean you don’t give your pumpkins names? Last year I made the fatal mistake of cutting her nose a little too close to the mouth, which sent it all caving in, like a cocaine whore. So she just had to be named Daniella Westbrook.
Well if you are going to startle the evil spirits away you might as well have a little morality about it and scare the kids from taking drugs too.
Oh yes and it just happens to be NaNoWriMo eve as well. So if you are taking part, a massive GOOD LUCK to you. If you are not, you may find this blog a little boring over the next month. So see you on the other side.
Posted by purple elephant at October 31, 2005 07:42 PM