Super Chocolate Cake, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

This is the rather dubious looking cake I baked for Clarkson’s birthday recently. It was based on a Waitrose recipe for Super Chocolate Cake and was generally successful. I changed the initial recipe by adding copious amounts of white chocolate chips and chunks of dairy milk. I also iced it with lemon flavoured icing. Red for the top, orange for the middle. The main problem with the resulting cake was that it ended up being a little stodgy. I put this down to my method of throwing all the ingredients in a bowl and mixing them all up rather than the careful steps described in the recipe of folding, whisking and flufferising.
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Adler Tippa S Typewriter, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

I got this typewriter for Clarkson for her birthday. It is a quite fantastic device. It also happens to be the first thing I have bothered to win at auction at ebay for the paltry sum of £12 + £10 p&p. This is pretty good value since they can go for quite a lot - up to £300 in some cases. The age of this particular model is tricky to determine. The manual that came with it was photocopied from the original and the way that it is written does not suggest it is from the 50’s. It seems like this particular design of typewriter has been in production for quite some time. They even still make them in China apparently.
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Imbimp/Elephant Pie, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

This weekend Clarkson made me an Imbimp Pie, with real, or at least elephant shaped bits of pastry walking round the edge. I think its probably apt for the website since not only does it carry the imbimp logo, but also carries the brownish theme, making it a little camoflaged.

Making the Imbimp pie is very easy. You will need…
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IMGP3270, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

A few months ago Clarkson and I made some cuddly beasts. Mine is the larger and more disturbing of the two, Clarkson’s is the smaller and more obviously happy looking. It was a very easy process to create them. In fact I can’t understand why more of these odd looking animals are not made since they are much better than the creatures commercially available and infinitely more unique. I even learnt how to do a spot of knitting to create a scarf to hide the unfortunate paunch that my beast seemed to take on after being stuffed.
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Everything is impossible until someone does it

So your blog is ticking along nicely at 2-3 visitors each day. People don’t stay long. Many have got there by mistake through mistyping the URL, some are not even human and read the content you slaved over purely as a means of helping others consider not reading it when it appears in search results. This is a common complaint and surely the reason behind why many bloggers pack up and go home after a short time, leaving poorly thought through crusts at the arse-end of the internet.
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Content Management System Cake, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

This weekend Clarkson and I decided to build a cake based on the Google Analytics dashboard. It was a fairly complex construction that ended up taking a lot longer than I expected. It was based around a Waitrose Lemon Drizzle cake recipe, with lemon butter icing filling. I actually had to bake three separate cakes. One for each layer of the main body of the cake and another to use for the 3D elements on the top.
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