Baseball Bakes

My partner plays Baseball every weekend and recently, along with his packed lunch, I have starting sending him off with a tin of baked goods for him and the team to enjoy.

Today its (very gooey) Millionaires Shortbread.

I made a fancy marble topping by adding some white chocolate to the dark chocolate before it set and then I used a cocktail stick to created the swirly pattern.

Here's a couple of my previous baseball bakes:

Baseball muffins. The BB is for Bristol Badgers, the name of the team. I made these for the first game of the season. 

Oat, Raisin & Chocolate Cookies

Double Chocolate Muffins 

I think it would be rude to finish this post without a link to the Bristol Badgers website, so here we go...

http://www.bristolbaseball.co.uk/

Lula

After years of searching I had almost given up trying to get hold of Lula magazine, which I had originally discovered, and fallen in love with, whilst at Uni. However, yesterday I was walking to work, my normal route, and I spotted it in the window of an art gallery. I waited until my lunch break and went straight back to the gallery, which was now open, and was so delighted when I saw it sitting there on the shelf.  I discussed my long and unsuccessful search for the magazine with the gallery owner and she informed me that she had experienced equal difficulty trying to stock it . She didn’t even know when, or if, she would get delivery of the next issue! But anyway, here it is in the flesh; I will treasure it and read it from cover to cover as I may not find it again for another 3 years!

Poem No. 2

OK, so here's my second poem. I wrote it quite quickly after this first one (Take Your Offer Off The Table). I didn't think too much about rhyming, I just wanted to put down my feelings in a way that flowed and was a complete story.

Once I  the poem back after completing it; it occurred to me that it could possibly be interpreted both literally and metaphorically. I'll let you take make your own mind up...!

Pilot In the Sky 

Come and rescue me 
Take me away
Fly me high above the clouds
Where the sun always shines


Spin me around
Turn me upside down 
Pump adrenaline through my veins
And make my heart beat fast


Take me higher and higher
Further into the blue
Until my vision is blurred
And I can feel no hurt


I am under your power
But I have never felt so free
Don't take me back to the world below
Where I'll be returned to reality


Let this smile on my face last forever
For this day dream I will always treasure.

My First Poem!

OK, go easy with me, this is my first poem! I’m a a little bit nervous about sharing it as poetry is definitely out of my comfort zone but I love the process of put my thoughts down in writing, and like art, poetry can be abstract; only the writer (or artist ) has control over the out come and knows the real truth behind it.

Here goes…

Take Your Offer Off The Table 

Take your offer off the table

And out of my head.

I want to

But I cant accept.

Stop keeping me awake,

And clouding my mind.

Stop making me want to see you

And get drawn in by those hazelnut eyes.

You are a forbidden fruit,

An apple I must not pick.

If I do it will end in tears

And reality will become my most worst of all fears.