Musings of a Perfectionist

Only a few days until GCSE's properly begin (with French Reading/Listening, of all things) but I'm not worrying too much about those. Yesterday (I did do some revision but) I had a ballet show, so I played cards and ate a lot of sweets and allowed my sister to torture me (*put makeup on me). Also, my other sister managed to scratch me with her hairbrush, which meant that my back looked like it had been attacked by some demon creature- so some of the others dabbed foundation on it (which stung awfully) so it wasn't quite so obvious. Fun times. And I didn't kick anyone this year! But I was wearing pointe shoes and I still can't feel my feet. :( Today, although I will be doing an afternoon of revision, I did a litter pick with my village. The thing with living in such a small village is that you get the whole community thing, which (contrary to popular belief) I actually really like. My family (apart from my dad) joined one other lady and spent an hour walkin...

Hi, guys- excellent news, I have! My novel has been finished completely (i.e. everything has been crossed off my to-do list) and it's ready to be released on the 15th December! That's 15th December , folks! Soon, I'll be releasing an extract on Wattpad, so make sure that you've subscribed to 'Musings of a Perfectionist' to get notified when I publish posts. My dream is finally coming true, although it now feels like publishing a book isn't actually that big of a deal. Is that weird? Oh well. *shrugs* Maybe it will be less underwhelming once I've actually published it (although it won't be published through Amazon because I don't have a TIN (because I'm not American) and I don't have a foreign version of the TIN, but that should be sorted out...hopefully). Anyway, to change the subject completely, I ran a Creative Writing session with four younger people from school the other day. We did some exercises in freeing the mind,...

Hello all! As promised yesterday (find yesterday's post here ) this is the (must awaited) cake recipe. *Note (not connected to the recipe): if you search the name of my blog into Google (Musings of a Perfectionist) then my blog is the first search result to come up! It used to be about fifth, maybe sixth, but it's now first! I don't know why this feels like such a big accomplishment, but it does. Anyway, the recipe is below. Sorry that there's no picture, but I didn't think of taking one before we went to school and it was eaten. Lemon and Raspberry Cake Ingredients (for cake): 175g butter, softened 175g caster sugar 3 eggs 175g self-raising flour Zest of one and a half lemons 2 tbsp lemon juice Whole raspberries Ingredients (for buttercream):  200g icing sugar 100g butter, softened 2 tbsp lemon juice Zest of half a lemon Ingredients (for raspberry compote): 400g raspberries 300g caster sugar 2 tbsp water 1 1/2 tbsp lemon juice...

Hello! We had our Sponsored Walk today, so I've walked about 8 miles and eaten far too much sugar, but a cup of Earl Grey Tea has solved all my problems (apart from, perhaps, my need for real food). ALSO: I've suddenly had 42 page views today?!? Welcome, all of you!! Have you subscribed...? 😂 There should be a post coming soon with an actual recipe! (Are you excited?) It's the recipe for the Lemon and Raspberry cake that I made for my friend's 16th birthday. I felt very bake-off, designing it all out and then forming my own cake. So look out for that post, coming soon. At school yesterday, we had a half day, and two of my friends came round (one to see the new house, the other to see it again). We went for a walk in the woods that live near our house, and I must admit that I got some pretty awesome pictures. Some of them look rather creepy, like the one of my sister just standing between some trees in the distance, and some of them were pretty cool, like one of m...