Birthday cake making has commenced and as a result BB has reached a milestone: she has licked the Kenwood ‘K’. For those of you in the dark, the Kenwood ‘K’ is the metal mixing utensil attached to a Kenwood mixer which is fashioned into the shape of a K (pictured). If you haven’t licked raw cake mixture from the crevices of a Kenwood ‘K’, you haven’t lived.

Handing a loaded Kenwood ‘K’ from mother to child is a rite of passage, a Very Important milestone in childhood. I have no doubt children and adults across the world will confirm this. Needless to say BB was delighted when I handed her ours – such was her zeal that there was nothing for it but to put her straight in the bath afterwards.

Of course the fact cake mixture contains raw egg only occurred to me afterwards, but it never did me any harm…