So basically we’re back to that safe-cracking ‘how to’…
[grinnity]
I thought that the end had an opening
Howsumevva
I am not going back to confirm that …
Desperately seeks Normous Medicinal…
Carinthia.xx
[Passes Pitcher ovva strong yet soothing mixture Chatelaineward]
[Pours a 'Normous French 75 for the Birthday Bird]
[Worries slightly about TFM’s browsing habits & history]
Ka-BOOM!
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Happy Birthday, Hedgers! xx
Aye, Happy Birthday, Dear Bird. I hope it’s been a goodun.
Goodnights, all,
Soo xx
Gin, Darling
From my Secret Supply.
That Birthday Birdie seems to have a few different bottles on the go… 
Carinthia.xx
So one fervently hopes. One wouldn’t like to think a Bird were sickenin’ for summat…
I am too innocent to even click on the link from TFM
Sod that, Twellsy
How was the cake?
Carinthia.xx
Cockytails innit. Gin and Other Gin.
It’s been a quietish one but a good one.
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The cake was a bit of curate’s egg
The main problem was using the size of tin specified
That made for a cake that boiled over the gin
They are different every year, Dunnock, aren’t they?
There are, I’m sure, many nice things in the offing when we can meet safely/safely meet again
Not ‘whale meet again’… 
Carinthia.xx
Snoek? She enquired helpfully.
How so?
Because unless you mean ‘altogether foul but in my position I feel it would be disadvantageous to speak honestly’ then a point has been missed, I think.
And I am certain that doesn’t apply to a cake of your baking.
So, did you measure the ingredients exactly as specified, & use the tin specified?
Hmm
I say again, that this seems neither economical, nor satisfactory
Carinthia.xx
[blergity]
yardarm
Stuff to do, BMWs to crap on…
The recipe called for a 1lb loaf tin which I used
The cake needed a 2lb loaf tin so it boiled over the tin and I have a burnt on ginger cake to deal with before I can get to the cake
I did measure everything twice
Since this cake oddly used warm water s raising flour and baking soda I just don’t know what is going on with my baking
I must be losing my touch
Pore Twellsy!
Soo xx
Or possibly the recipes used are untested, sloppily edited or whatever.
I’d have packed it in by now.