Oh dear. I think I’m a bit weird. You see, it started off with the butter dish (see guilty-looking dog for details). I was looking on Ebay for a new one and was rather taken by a ceramic model in the shape of a cake, complete with cherries on the top. This led me onto the seller’s shop where you can buy such wonders as scented candles shaped like fairy cup cakes and Christmas decorations in the shape of little teacakes! Needless to say I loved absolutely everything and had to be physically restrained from rummaging in my handbag for my Laser card. It was the same when I found a cake decorating Ebay shop that sold edible glitter. Wow!

I know, I can’t help it. I’m just drawn to naff things. Somewhere in my genes, my parents implanted a teeny Princess Barbie that I just can’t ignore. Take yesterday, when Hubby and I were wandering around SuperValu (got a new big one near me - woohoo!) and I was suddenly fixated on the Ready Brek. Remember that? It was like wondrously soft, smooth porridge, and I can vividly remember sprinkling mine with Hundreds and Thousands (those little pastel sugar sprinkles). I had to buy some (the Ready Brek, not the Hundreds and Thousands) to relive my childhood and I’m glad to report that it’s exactly as I remember: baby food for a whole new generation. Not quite the same without the sprinkles though.

So how did a normal girl from Hertfordshire come to be obsessed with everything pink and sparkly? I have no idea, as I was quite a tomboy as a child, having two older brothers and a father who refereed football at the weekends (disreputable, see? The perfect hobby). Me Mam’s not girly girly so I didn’t get it off her either, but there’s something about baking fairy cakes in a little pinny that really floats my boat.

There you are then, and seeing as I’m…erm…thirty plus postage and packing, and Queen of my Kitchen, I’m going to unleash that inner Barbie and purchase that cake-shaped butter dish where it will have pride of place in the kitchen that I’m currently persuading Hubby to paint pink. So there.

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