a bunch of cupcakes are being frosted with white frosting ALT: a bunch of cupcakes are being frosted with white frosting

I just made fairy cakes, which do smell good!
BUT!
Will #TestosteroneTowers be content with plain fairy cakes, or will I have to decorate them?

Maybe we should just swap! (Though you may not have bargained for the residents of #TestosteroneTowers ...)

Oh, you are so right.
(Might even improve the situation at #TestosteroneTowers today!)

Parkinson’s Law in Reverse ‘Work Expands to Fit the Time Available’? Mr Parkinson, you’re so wrong! Parkinson’s Law was apparently a saying coined by Cyril Parkinson in 1955. But today, I’m watc…

Enough of #ParkinsonsLaw - I'm off to Dundee. Research trip and a welcome break from #TestosteroneTowers.
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Have recorded tunes for the choir. It's 11.30 am, and even that activity didn't rouse #TestosteroneTowers!
But I feel virtuous (at least until someone asks what on earth I was doing...)

If #TestosteroneTowers doesn't get up soon, I'm skipping brunch (for which I've prepared and waited patiently) and moving straight on to cake.
Stuff it!
Excellent cake by #Lidl, iced by me.

But NOW I learn that, once Cook had gone to bed, exhausted, everyone else went downstairs for some gaming time. So I'm ready for brunch, whilst #TestosteroneTowers slumbers on.

A Year as a Research Fellow It’s a whole year since I retired from librarianship, and started my new contract as a part-time postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Do I miss librarianship? No, I&#82…

Time for a break! Bright and sunny outside, but the morning is already dripping with #TestosteroneTowers trauma. Happy holidays!
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Although I'm considered negligent for leaving them toattenda conference, I'm really not. #TestosteroneTowers is all organised and even their laundry is done ✔️. Meals listed on fridge and in dining room...

I've been chauffeur, cook, laundry-maid, housekeeper and tech support today. I've been insufferable. (Indeed, he threatened to go by taxi rather than accept my lift.) And what has #TestosteroneTowers brought to the table?
At least one of them just brought me a cuppa. Which helps ...