Sunday Stealing Feels Festive

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Sunday Stealing Feels Festive

I'm off for the next two weeks. Project shut down. Time to get back into being a novelist again. With this in mind, I'm doing the Sunday questions early.

And a happy whatever you celebrate to you all.

Questions, as always, have been sourced by Sunday Stealing.

1. Describe your favorite cake.

Come on, that's like naming your favourite child!

If I was to state what my favourite cake really is, it's one of these three.

I love a really fresh carrot cake / hummingbird cake with lashings of cream cheese icing. I see these as interchangeable as the flavour profiles are similar.

Then there's a really good flourless lemon cake - again, must have cream cheese icing. David Jones used to do a good one. This can be interchanged with pretty much any good lemon cake - lemon ricotta cake, lemon drizzle cake... I love these. I make a very good flourless lemon cake.

Oh, and I still have dreams about Adriano Zumbo's V8 cake - eight layer of different vanilla textures. It's incredible.

2. Think of the best party you've ever attended. Were you a host or a guest?

As an introvert, parties are not really my thing. I do remember a good party at Christmas in England many years ago where a group of us had a three-day house party. It was really chill. A good time was had by all.

3. When you choose a greeting card, do you pay more attention to the words or the pictures?

Normally by the picture. I tend to write my own message in cards.

4. What's your favorite holiday?

I'm not one for 'holidays' other than you get sanctioned time off. I like the thought of Labour Day (in my state in Australia, that's the second Monday in March) because I like that we celebrate the legislation of the eight-hour workday. It also heralds in Autumn, my favourite season.

5. Who is your favorite character on your favorite TV show?

Again, just one? Take your pick from: