I need a bucket

For reasons that will become clear at some point I made my Christmas cakes a bit earlier than usual. 

It turned out I didn't have enough raisins so I used chocolate instead. That's fine, right?

Can you see the problem here? 

That was why I needed a bucket. It just about all fitted in one bowl with a bit of careful transferring and mixing. 

I wanted to make two cakes, one large and one small. The recipe I had was for one 20cm cake. I had a 22cm tin and a 15 cm tin, so I worked out the area of each tin and decided doubling the quantity in the recipe would be a bit less than needed for my two tins but that I'd manage with that.

So how did it end up like this?

Two full tins and enough for another tin as well. I blame the computer. Normally I work out the area myself using pie r squared - I don't know how I type pie - but this time I just asked the computer to do it. 

I don't even like Christmas cake.

And I don't know how anyone could accuse me of being a messy cook! Just because I use every bowl and implement in the place.

And it's a good end to the weekend with Wales just beating Fiji in the rugby Autumn International Series. The final score was flattering to Wales as Fiji played most of the game with only fourteen men and a quarter of the game with thirteen, so Wales should have done better but then again the team is quite inexperienced and new. The 'first' team has been hit by Covid and injuries - including one in the warm-up just before the game, for goodness sake!