Not only do I take great pleasure in making cakes for special occasions, due to the fact that it is such a simple way to bring a smile to people's faces, I love the turning of the months and seasons, especially Spring.

I attended a lovely wedding yesterday. Sadly an aunt of the bride was chosen to make the cake for the special day (those pesky relatives!) but I did sing in our band The People's String Foundation. The reception was held in a huge marquee which was decked out with classic kitsch, pastel china and delicate spring flowers. The family of both bride and groom had helped to prepare everything which made the whole day feel extra special. The place names were made from fired clay done in the oven at home. The napkins were all personalised and the flowers picked from local gardens and donated by should I say, the willing owners of the gardens.

After a feast prepared by not only extended family but friends too, we had cups of tea in hotch potch china cups and oodles of naughty puds piled high with cream and fruit: messy and glorious.

The whole event was perfect and definitely a simple and pretty theme to chose for a wedding. Even if you do not have that many talented friends and family to muck in for the occasion, there are plenty of wedding companies that provide these sorts of services. It is a very popular back drop for a Spring wedding and is easy to get just right. All I would suggest is that you give yourself plenty of time to think about all the little details as that is what made it such a perfect day.

I can't quite believe the continuous sunshine we have been blessed with over the last week or so. I feel however, that our luck must change at some point soon as let us all remember, this is Britain.

This clement weather has allowed plenty of walks on the beach, reading sessions in the sun and a lovely trip to my egg man's farm near St Agnes. I was lucky enough to visit when there were week old piglets, ten day old puppies and day old chickens! I held one of the little fluff balls and, due to the fact I was listening to lunch time radio 2 previous to my visit, called it Jeremy. After discovering that Jeremy really was a boy and that Chris and Kay did not want another Cockerel, they have faced the facts that he now needs to be re-homed as opposed to eaten. Well, you can't eat an animal with a name...

I have had some uber cake commissions of late, having to complete a myriad of wedding cupcakes and a sugarcraft based 80th birthday cake for the same morning. I was very pleased with the sugarcraft flowers as they really conveyed the feeling of late spring that the customer had asked for. And although sugarcraft flowers especially roses, do take some time, it is always worth it when you assemble it all and see the look on the face of the birthday girl! And this morning I finished off a classic wedding cake which I have just uploaded the pictures of onto both my website and my FaceBook page. The cake itself was chocolate fudge torte and is very, very naughty. I love this design because it looks so spectacular but is really quite simple to make. Although the ingredients are rather expensive.

Rather excitingly Beth's Bakes and The People's String Foundation will be venturing to Glastonbury next wednesday to sing songs, dance and be merry.

We will be playing on the Avalon stage and Croissant-Neuf stages on the weekend and other sporadic little performances throughout the rest of the festival. The bassoon will be coming out and I urge any of you chaps that will be frequenting the muddy fields of Pilton, we wander our way and come and bop along to our chilled out, epic, funk, jazz, gypsy-blues (and anything else you can chuck in to describe the indescribable!).

So if you do try and get in contact then any response will not reach you until the following week as I will be covered in mud with a bemused smile slapped across my face wearing a curious hat that can only be worn at festivals amongst strangers for certain moral and social reasons...

On my return I will pop up some pictures.