So I'm house-sitting. I never fail to amaze myself when I look at my hierarchy of needs and what is required to establish a comfort zone.

There are hundreds of recipes for pumpkin pie out there, some of them are very complex, some cut corners and ask for canned pumpkin, which is hard to find in the UK, and pumpkins tend to be both highly seasonal and selected for size rather than flavour. The answer is is to substitute butternut squash, which tastes remarkably like pie pumpkin, and is available at sensible prices through most of the year.

I had a load of frosting left over from another project, so I looked for a really quick way to use it up, other than show up to my monday game with a bowl of frosting and some spoons. For some reason I decided to ignore the big "NO!" scribbled on the swiss roll recipe in my BeRo book. Needless to say my swiss roll tin was slightly the wrong size and the planned swiss roll kind of turned half way over and cracked. I think I remember why the grafitti is on that recipe now.