Isolation. Segregation. Consolation? Zero contamination.

I absolutely realise I am not the only pregnant woman who is self-isolating right now, in fact on the contrary - most of my friends are pregnant. But I thought I'd start a blog because, well, why not? I am usually so busy I haven't even got 10 minutes spare to sit down for a cup of tea and slice of cake, but TODAY? Today I have baked an entire batch of cupcakes, devoured 4 within 15 minutes and baked a banana loaf straight after ... because, well, I can. I have time, something I don't usually have. Time to think, time to ponder the meaning of life, time to manage the ever full storage on my iphone, time to look up "new ways of decorating cupcakes" (yes, I really did do this, and yes I really did watch 3 youtube videos on the subject. And yes, I did realise shortly after decorating said cakes that in fact NOBODY was going to SEE them, TASTE them or appreciate them apart from my husband and I'm pretty sure, despite scoffing 3, if he had to tell you what colour the icing was he would be clueless.)

The icing was pink, FYI.

There's only so many times you can clean the house, only so much of the rolling news you can watch in a day - I'm actually finding myself humming the Sky News theme which is in no way a good thing. I feel like I know Rishi Sunak personally, and I'm dreaming of Boris, which again, is in no way a good thing. I had a moment earlier this evening where I couldn't undo my hoodie and annoyed, I said to myself "COME ON, I HAVEN'T GOT ALL BLOODY NIGHT"... then realised that, in fact, I did. I don't just have all night, I have 12 weeks.

My job as a shopping TV presenter means by the very nature of the job, I can't really do it from home. Or can I? We are currently working out a way in which I can potentially do my shows from home, but have no idea yet whether this will work when we do try it. I have to say though I am DESPERATE for it to be a success because I genuinely don't know what on earth I'm going to be doing for the next 11 weeks otherwise, and I've used up all the remaining flour, sugar, eggs and butter I had in the house. Totally forgot to mention that just a few days ago I also made an entire batch of jam tarts due to a severe pregnancy craving. So my baking cupboard is a very sorry state of affairs right now. I have most definitely peaked too early.

It wasn't the Knave of Hearts who stole these tarts. He's in self isolation.

Thinking about it now, I'm not certain the tarts, banana loaf and 15 cupcakes were an effective use of all those ingredients, considering there's nothing on the shelves right now. In hindsight, this morning's baking efforts may have been grossly misjudged... and I'm going to be 3 stone heavier by next week.

Could be a baby, could be all the tarts and cakes.

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