THE CAKE LADY
Coffee and cake has rapidly become a habit for the group...and a fine one to have I am sure you will all agree. After all how many times do you do swimming with your friends to a pool and stand around afterwards drinking coffee and eating cake. It’s an impromptu habit that we have formed and the banter that comes with it is priceless.
Any exercise you do will result in a healthy appetite afterwards. Nicely sore muscles need fuel to repair themselves but I will not bleat on about correct food groups etc....we like cake!!!! After every swim out come the flasks and Tupperware containers....each of us eagerly eyeing up the spoils...but also waiting, hoping that Dominic Gillespie has turned up. His wife, Justine, is a superb cook and her cakes are rapidly becoming infamous. Dominic is welcomed with huge grins followed by “did you bring cake?” The response of yes is guaranteed to set us all of salivating. All foods brought by ourselves are then put on hold as Dominic reveals the latest marvels.
Melt in the mouth cakes soon disappear under the onslaught of us swimmers diving (no pun intended) into the container....god forbid you are at the back of the queue...heart pounding as the numbers of slices disappear before your eyes. Luckily for us Justine bakes BIG!
For a long while the cakes came and were devoured by us with little thought to the work gone in to their creation. Was Dominic with his soft Scottish accent the secret chef? He claimed not. Proof was demanded...we need to meet this woman, to bow down in front as not worthy. This woman’s baking puts ours to shame.
Naturally we are spoilt with such wonderful baking and as you can imagine there are some of us furiously working away in our kitchen to match such skills. Kathryn Ayre.....now there’s another with a talent...her lemon drizzle cake is not to be sneezed at. Kathryn started off as one of the quietest members of the group but is rapidly coming out of her shell (remind me to tell you of her texting in the changing rooms....so wish I had had a camera that day!)
Eventually Dominic gave in and brought his beautiful wife with him. Joy!!!! She is not a figment of our imagination...real life in the flesh (well fully dressed) in front of us...this is one woman guaranteed a warm welcome. And she even claims to enjoy baking for us!!! Wow an asset for any group of hungry swimmers as you can imagine. And as luck would have it Dominic purchased a wetsuit (he does not wear them himself unless absolutely necessary!) So now Justine swims with us too.....another swimmer to the group and she brings cake. Heaven! Justine also bring other talents, she has a knack for taking rather good pictures whilst swimming..some of which are already on the blog site. But now she starts another wave of competitiveness....we all need these cameras.
Long may the coffee and cake tradition continue...we justify our intake by promising ourselves we will swim harder next week....but then next week comes and so do Justine’s cakes!!!!
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