Coming Attractions

Good lord it has been a long time. In case any of you are wondering I'm still here, still alive and working full time at long last, making ends meet in BSB Whiteladies. It is reminiscent of the Forest of the Suicides as described in Dante's Inferno. But do not worry, I shan't do anything silly. I have Things To Do.

For this week I have been presented with a task, to make cakes for a tea party. It may sound frivolous but, like Algernon Moncrieff the frivolous things in life are those I take most seriously. Besides, I got to experiment with some new Nigella recipes, from her current book and series, Kitchen. Her writing is characteristically personable and helpful. Usefully, not all her recipes require expensive or specialist ingredients, so I've chosen two from the current batch: chocolate orange loaf cake and rasberry bakewell slices. So far the former is finished and I'm slightly reluctant to see it go tomorrow. Add some of my macaroons to the mix and it's not a bad bag from me. Frankly I could do this all day. This cooking and baking lark grows on me daily. I think if I absolutely had to give up the dizzying high of a stage I could just about manage it for smoked paprika and cinnamon. The smell of a kitchen is an intoxification all of its own, I find.

However my life does not yet teeter on the precipice of boredom, for at last thursday approaches. Ah, thursday the 30th, how I have waited for you. For then my first burlesque class for Daredevil Divas begins. Six classes of a variety of Burlesque, vaudeville and cabaret classes ending in a performance put together in less than 48 hours. I am excited beyond expression, I'm afraid, but I will make a point of updating this blog with my weekly adventures, as at last I shall have them. I have been looking for a way to get in to the world of burlesque and cabaret and I hope this will give me the inspiration I need, as without being a trained dancer I will need a hook. Much as I would love to bake indulgent cakes onstage that would take longer than the average striptease spot and would merely fill the venue with the pleasant smell of baking. Pleasant, but not necessarily titillating. Though now I think about it, I'm warming to combining Nigella's foody sexiness with Bobby Baker's performance genius. Something delicious or scary could come from that combination. That's going in the cerebral back burner.

Anyway this blog is to announce a future, more interesting blog that maybe springboards yet more interesting blogs for weeks to come. We could potentially all enjoy this. Or just me. We'll see.

Nigella's new show airs on BB2 at 8 on thursday the 30th. I shall have to iplayer it as I'm at class but I can already tell you her book is marvelous and full of good ideas, so do tune in.

TTFN