Two Nice Things

 A good friend, having heard about Markko,  got her niece to drop these in to show she was thinking of us. 

Wasn't that lovely?They were still tightly shut when delivered but slowly opened up yesterday and this is how they looked today. Such a beautiful colour. 

And then today I made this (aided and abetted by the OH who is very good at separating eggs). 

Had I remembered how big this was I'd have done half quantities, but it's a very long time since I made it, so that's my excuse. Well not excuse really, just the reason that it's huge. I did this to make a start on pre-move freezer emptying; this is some of last year's raspberry crop. I must cast  an eye over how many we have left and decide how many more fools, pavlovas, trifles and crumbles with raspberries I will need to produce to use them all up. 

And yes, I am finally daring to believe that the move is really going to happen. Tomorrow the valuer for our buyer's lender is coming to give the house the once over , but for various reasons that shouldn't be any sort of a problem. Currently we are looking at a completion date of 23rd May  and moving in to the new house on 24th. I hope writing that down hasn't jinxed anything.