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Don't Eat The Mice!!

WOAH is this an update I see? It is, my dear friends- I am here to bestow wisdom upon you once more, only four days after my last wisdom-bestowing post. Aren't you so very lucky. My sister is currently decorating her room, which is next to mine, so there's the wafting of paint down the corridor and in my room, so I may seem out of sorts...also I have a massive headache and I'm very very tired so there's that too. TWO DAYS!! I may be a little excited. But anyway. So there's the paint smell (though your room looks very pretty, little sister!) but there is also the warmth smell. Yes- my radiator is officially on and running! My feet are toasty now :) and also there is the classic warmth smell of my radiator. I don't know if it's because it's so old? But it smells like comfort and sleep and warmth and reminds me of curling under fluffy blankets. There may be something that I want to do. Also, I really would like to be a cat when it comes to winter ...

Recipe: Lemon and Raspberry Cake

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...