Drifting through life

it's my birthday! 61 years down, 40 years to go. Or more... I'll start the day with breakfast:- can you believe the whole thing is cake ? Even the tray! for lunch, something smaller, more simple:- yum! afternoon tea? coffee cake of course. dinner will be a healthier option:- a salad sandwich (cake). followed by dessert:- ice cream sundae (cake) (ignore the banner I am not 80, although sometimes my hips would say I am). maybe a cup of tea or two before bed.... the cups are sugar if I remember rightly. All of these cake images have been borrowed from Cake Wrecks , thank you very much. and thank you JahTeh for the cakey inspiration.

Christmas is coming up way too fast for my liking. I'm not ready for it. The heat, the crazy crowds.... I started thinking of Christmases when I hadn't been working at Coles. Years ago, I worked in a shoe factory. Clarks Shoes. Yep, the one that makes all those kids school shoes and baby and toddler shoes too. Remember Baby's First Walkers? We also made men's shoes, the Hush Puppies line, and women's shoes, which I could never buy any of because the fittings just weren't wide enough for my slabs of meat. (feet) All year, the bosses would bring in the orders and we'd jump through hoops getting them made and sent out. Christmas was a different story. Orders still had to be got out to the shops, but we'd be closing for three weeks, so there'd be a bit of a rush going on. But the atmosphere underwent a bit of a change. Tiny Christmas trees began appearing on people's work desks. Tinsel got strung around the machinery. Shiny hanging ...