email to nanna coz we'll be gone b4 you wake up......

Dear Nanna, Thankyou for coming and staying with us, and I'm sorryyou didnt get as much sleep as you should have. I am sleeping fitfullyin Mummy's bed and she is cruising the internet because she cant sleep &is having an existential crisis regarding the validity of her life , butwill get to bed any minute now.Thankyou for all your hard work and for being so neat, it is quite anovelty as my mother is so laissez faire in her approach to basicdomesticity. We hope you will want to come again soon and I look forward to hearing your sermon in June.Lots of Love Minerva & the torturous teeth xoxops. here is a recipe your dad might like:Gluten free Gingerbread Cake (Grandma MacKenzie's recipe)Preheat oven to 160 degree celsiusCream 125g(1/4 of a pound) of butter with a teacup of sugar. Add 1breakfast cup** of golden syrup along with 2 eggs. Stir. Add 2 and 1/2cups*** of plain gluten free flour (or normal flour if you aren't having gluten issues), 1 level tbspn of dried ginger, 1 tspn of allspice, a tiny pinch of salt. Stir some more and then gradually add a teacup of milk inwhich 2 small tspns of baking soda have been dissolved. Mix well, (giveit a good beating if discipline required). Pour into a large-ish cake tin, (I use a generous square one) that's been lined with baking paper or similar. Turn oven down to 150 degree celsiusand bake for about 1 hour.