Birthday cake

I baked a Spanish Orange cake as my contribution for my birthday at work today. It ensured I got a cake :-)

As I made it last night memories of the wonderful cakes Mum bakes and decorated for our birthdays, came flooding back.

She must have stayed up late the night before our birthdays. Tradition was a beautifully iced and decorated cake on display in the china cabinet the morning of your birthday.

I recall Humpty Dumpty, a ballerina, a matchbox toy car on a race track, and others beside.

I miss her every day and especially so on my birthday. But I know her smile and love too.

Now it's time to feed the cat and headbout to dinner with friends.