I am just in the process of settling down to sleep when THE biggest spider takes a walk over my right shoulder as I lie in bed. I’m not kidding you, this was a monster. Agree with me or not I leapt out of bed and hit it with my shoe. It just looked back at me and winked. Joking aside it left a mark on the wall where I hit it. Not good.

So, that said I decided to get up for a little while whilst I try and overcome the mental scaring.

I find it amazing what can happen in a little over the week I have been offline. I should try it more often.

First of all, Hard to Find records have said they will take my record collection off my hands (all be it I have to hire a van for the weekend to get the vinyl to Birmingham), Steve Irwin has died in a freak accident and there is talk of Tony Blair stepping down. My Nokia sold for a pretty penny and I replaced it with a new Samsung D900.

You might recall this time last year when I stepped into the baking arena. Well my friends it surely is that time again, my young friend Sam turns five this week and once again cake making duty is on.

It has to be said that my “Cheeky Monkey Cake” post is the most searched for term on this site in my referrals list. I wonder if this years Scooby-Doo cake will equal it? Here we go:

You see, call me full of it but that is a chocolate cake. Let’s pick a theme:

Sam loves Scooby-Doo and insists on watching it every time he comes for a visit (that is if he isn’t watching Toy Story for the 1000th time). Did you know there are over 360 episodes? I love you Wikipedia.

Ok hang fire, something just occurred to me, bake a cake, decorate it, give said cake away as a gift – left without cake, good job I made two then (forward thinking people):

I will upload a picture when I actually decorate the cake, I’m also going to give you the recipe because you need to eat a slice of this cake and I’m just a little too busy to start a mail order service.

Now there’s an idea, cake via Pay Pal.