Custard Walk

As a Non-Newtonian fluid, the more force exerted on the custard powder+water mixture, the more the particles of the fluid huddle together to become a solid! Basically you can do a pretty good Jesus impression - or cartwheel through it as one of my crazy Scouts did!

I think we had a good 80 kilos or more of custard powder/cornflour!

Making the custard mixture

Lining up our troop ready to walk on the custard

It was great fun. Not as messy as I thought it would be! We definitely needed 3 leaders to run it. We just kept adding custard powder to water and mixing it. I think the space there is about 8' x 2' x 5". We just put a tarp over some benches which worked really well. The kids lined up and ran across it and had a right laugh. I'm not sure who had more fun, the Scout leaders of the Scouts!

Tabletop success

Great Tabletop Sale today!

It seems a long time in the making but it's finally here! Idea to fruition in 3 months. I've really enjoyed organising and being part of the local community through Scouts and I think we'll do this event again! There was really positive feedback and lots to evaluate and improve on!

I had some brilliant helpers and everyone made it such a success by donating prizes, helping to put up tables, being so friendly, being able to promote their businesses, buying raffle tickets and serving drinks. This all adds up and means that we can maintain our building and get more inventive with Scouts activities like the one we put on last night!

Brilliant Tabletop Sale today and it was so much fun to organise and be part of! #Scouts #fundraising #events #projects #community #WythallPark #venue #eventplanner #eventsplanner #outdoors #raffleprizes #TransformingU #DaviesTimber #BahHumbugEarlswood

A photo posted by Alex Laight (@bodicea25) on Jan 31, 2015 at 8:50am PST

A big shout out to everyone who had tables, helped out + visited our Tabletop Sale @WythallPark today #1stTidburyGreen #Scouts #fundraising
— Alex Laight (@AlexandraLaight) January 31, 2015

The things I do for my Scouts

Friday night and I'm getting completely covered in flour so that I have some cupcakes to sell at tomorrow's Tabletop Sale!

I used 5 small, very yellow free range eggs (from my chickens), lemon zest and 3 dessertspoons of lemon juice. 

As per Delia's Lemon Butterfly Cake recipe (which I doubled and used butter instead of soft marg for), I put the oven on 190 degrees c and mixed all the ingredients together with my handmixer. My mixture made 23 cupcakes but they are random sizes so yours may stretch to 25.

I finally get to use my cute cupcake cases!

I've just popped them in the oven for 15 mins and then I'll check them to see if they spring back up when I poke them. As my oven is a bit tricky I did them in 2 batches on the middle shelf.

I've just checked on them and I'll give them 4 more minutes. Right, now they're perfect. They sprang back up.

Very messy but never mind!

Completely covered in flour!

I'm off to eat tea whilst I wait for the other cupcakes to bake and then I've got Scouts in a bit and we're doing an epic Custard Walk and some sort of safe explosion so super-excited for that! Sure the Scouts will enjoy it too :)

Right. They're baked. I'll leave them to cool and I'll ice them in the morning.