That’s mostly how I’ve spent this week!

I gained a cold this week, which steadily travelled from my sinuses to my throat and now has taken up residence in my chest. Still, I made it to class every day, even if I was coughing through the demo and just trying to stay warm!

Having 6 days of class completely threw off my internal calendar too and I had issues keeping track of what day it was!

It was a fun week of class, I’m happy we’re onto cakes. We’ve made a blackforest gateau (even if I’ve never seen one before with white frosting!), a generic birthday cake with a genoise sponge and swiss buttercream, a yule log which was so much fun I’m going to be making it for Christmas, and a couple of pound cakes, one called les weekend and one called pain de genes.

We did another of the birthday cakes for the exam, which I mostly rushed through so I could go sit down and feel sorry for myself for not only being ill and barely being able to concentrate, but to be in school doing an exam on a Saturday! It went alright.. I wasn’t happy with it, but I knew that there was slim chance of me doing any better feeling like I was, Chef was mostly happy with it, it tasted good and she felt the flaws weren’t all that bad and I’d done a good job (especially with making and baking the cake, making the icing, and decorating.. and doing my theory test, all in 2 hours).

DmentD and I put up the Christmas tree this week, and decorated it, DmentD also put some lights up outside, along the edge of the roof and around the tress in the front yard. The house feels nice and festive now.

Sunday we went out for Dim Sum, my first experience of it. It’s chinese food, but they wheel everything round of trolleys so you can ask for bits of whatever you like. It was mostly seafood, we were sat next to the tanks of lobsters and crabs, but there was enough meat (mostly pork) to keep me happy. I’m getting better with chopsticks, and it was probably the most I’d eaten all week!

Then, as DmentD and I were out shopping, I started feeling dodgy… really, not good… eventually I requested that we cut short the trip so I could go and crash on the sofa.. I’ll spare you the list of symptoms, suffice to say between them and the fever I developed we think I picked up some mild food poisoning at the Dim Sum place. DmentD went out for a short while and I stayed huddled under a blanket semi watching films semi dozing.

I’m feeling better this morning, the fever broke leaving me just with the cough and sniffles I already had.

Back to school this afternoon (a one day weekend is not enough!), onto a pineapple upside down cake and at some point this week a sacher torte which I’m excited about.

Oh! And if you want a giggle go read DmentD’s blog and see how I managed to squick him out! *grins*