Tuesday 4th June

I was up and about early this morning wide awake at 5.30.  I made some little fruit cakes for the Kiwani bake sale this morning.  I had prepared the tins and ingredients last night, it didn't take long to put them in the oven.

 I packaged them as English fruit cakes to give them a little more 'cachet', ha, ha.  I knew Phyllis would not be in to fall about laughing.    And the 'moist' comes from the tin of crushed pineapple in them.

I had intended making some little apple pie cakes, but I was glad I didn't, because, unusually, there were a lot of cakes left over today - the reason being that it was raining very heavily this morning, so there were far fewer people than usual in the Senior Centre.  I was glad to see though that none of mine were left.   Market them as 'English', that's obviously the secret.

Apart from making some soup for supper that was my cooking for the day.  I  had breakfast at the Senior Centre, and lunch at the hospital after my chaplaincy round in ICU.    

I haven't really looked at the weather and television this evening, but I did hear that it was going to be quite bad on Wednesday, although we are not expecting tornadoes, or I would have been paying attention.  I have been sorting through all the digital photos of my trip.

I had the following e-mail from my friend Paul in North Carolina.

The National Weather Service has upgraded the tornado that struck El Reno, Okla. on Friday to EF5, and with a width of 2.6 miles, it is now the largest tornado on record, packing radar-estimated winds of at least 296 mph

This is from my weather channel ...

You're a survivor!
  
Wow, he makes it sound like a badge of honour!!   And the largest tornado on record, no wonder I was nervous.