Thank feck - I don't have to go into work today....
I will however, be spending this morning/afternoon putting together a bank of speaking and listening material for Level 2 courses, and then doing two sets of marking. By 'eck, we teachers are slackers...
I've been giving some thought to baking - not actually *doing* it, but the activity as a pastime. I find the idea of recreational baking rather odd. I never baked as a child, and family baking was quite limited. If the oven was on for dinner, then we'd have crumble for afters, or sometime pie, but there was never baking for baking's sake.
I'm puzzling over whether it is in fact a class thing? I suspect that recreational baking might be a middle class thing, but I'm not sure. What do other people think? Did you come from a middle or working class background? Did you bake as a child? Did your parents bake? Do you bake now?
I've been giving some thought to baking - not actually *doing* it, but the activity as a pastime. I find the idea of recreational baking rather odd. I never baked as a child, and family baking was quite limited. If the oven was on for dinner, then we'd have crumble for afters, or sometime pie, but there was never baking for baking's sake.
I'm puzzling over whether it is in fact a class thing? I suspect that recreational baking might be a middle class thing, but I'm not sure. What do other people think? Did you come from a middle or working class background? Did you bake as a child? Did your parents bake? Do you bake now?
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As a child I never baked at home because I never had an opportunity - Mum was generally out at the stables at any time that there might have been time to bake anything, and due to various amounts of bad behaviour I wasn't allowed to be left alone in the house until I was about 16, by which time I was far more interested in playing loud music and nicking the vodka out of the drinks cabinet. I don't think that this not baking is due to my having a working class background, but who knows? I probably became more middle class at some point during my late teens I think, but my baking started when I was a post grad student, as a direct result of getting a great recipe card collection and lodging somewhere with a great kitchen and a child who also wanted to bake. So we'd spend Saturday afternoons baking biscuits and bread, and attempting cake (which I'm so bad at I think that Dunlop should hire me for their research for tyre compounds).