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Lines from Linda The flags, bunting and home-made cakes have been celebrated, and, as I write this, I know we are all still celebrating in red, white and blue, the 70 glorious years of our wonderful Queen’s reign.
the list as having contributed. Job done – or so we thought. Because, much to her horror, when my friend rushed in, first in the queue, the cake was nowhere in sight. The next week was the town’s street party. My friend and I took our seats at the line of put-together tables, but not before scanning the whole row to check for any sight of my shameful cake. To our relief, it wasn’t there.
My face is fully red as I remember my disaster and embarrassment of the 1977 Jubilee year. I was a young actress working in repertory theatre, which meant rehearsing a play all day, playing a different one at night and learning lines for another one in tea-breaks. Our relief faded as the woman who ran the Town’s The announcement from the lady that ran the Woman’s Guild walked in holding my cake. It looked Town’s Women’s Guild that we all had to make great from the outside and received many, ‘Oohs a cake for the church bazaar Jubilee sale, and Ah’s, and questions of, ‘Doesn’t it look left me reeling. I had neither the time nor So, I glued five pretty,’ and ‘Who made that? any idea of how to make a cake. Then I cardboard toilet-roll remembered I once had to make a prop holders together, discreetly No one spoke. I was the colour of a tomato. Then the Town’s Woman leader beamed. cake for a pantomime I’d been in a few attached them to a cake Obviously deciding this could be a chance of years before, and it had taken minimum base, covered the rolls praise and glory, ‘I did,’ she announced. I was time. So, I glued five cardboard toilet -roll in baking parchment and surprised her nose didn’t grow as she spoke. holders together, discreetly attached them cleverly set about My friend and I did an extremely slow head turn to a cake base, covered the rolls in baking icing my work. to each other. parchment and cleverly set about icing my
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work. (I could do icing, I once had done a course, and it took me no time at all). I decorated the cake with corgis and flags and it was ready to go. It certainly looked the business.
I left it in the church hall and scarpered. The plan was that my friend would be there when they opened the door for the sale, and would rush in and buy it, and no one would be any the wiser, except we had our name ticked from
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Then someone handed her a knife and said, ‘It looks too beautiful to eat, Marcia.’ Relief once again ran through my shaking veins. Until someone else said, ‘But we will anyway. You cut the first slice Marcia.’ My friend and I made a very quick and quiet exit.
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