Curved balls

Earlier this week, with the impending arrival of our favourite daughter, I made a batch of Brownie and posted a picture of it on Facebook along with a cryptic comment. Brownie has figured large in her years at University and was even requested for their wedding feast. Our younger nephew rarely posts on FB but is a connoisseur of chocolate cake, with his absolute fave being Granny Pat’s recipe (which I’m banned from sharing with you, sorry). It seems there has been little success on the brownie-front in their kitchen so I decided to send him a little cake parcel. Being totally fair and even-handed I then wrapped another box for his older brother. Happily both arrived the very next day. So more of the cake was consumed with coffee and as dessert with ice cream and another little box packed for the daughter to take home. That all left very little in the tin for the lovely ladies down the road to receive – but they won’t know what they missed this week. I better make some more 😉 The second curved ball came when, as an administrator of my website, I looked at my “stats” and could see how many people had visited the site each day. Noticing some small print, I then clicked on that and discovered I could see exactly which recipes had been downloaded and other areas that had been looked at. But there, lower down , was a map pf the world with countries coloured for their “visitors”. I’m sure you will have guessed that most were from UK, but if you know me well you’ll be expecting USA too. But what about China ? Ex-pupils perhaps…and Australia ? Parents of a friend maybe. Any ideas anyone ?