more than just a doughnut

We made more doughnuts yesterday. Phoebe is chief fryer (I told her she should include this valuable experience in her CV - it could stand her in good stead when looking for summer jobs in holiday resorts) and I am chief kitchen ventilator and monitor of oil temperature (see post below).

We made mini rings, large rings, and more jam-filled round doughnuts. We have a lot left over today, but they have lost their freshness (they lose it very quickly) and aren't nice to eat. But I can't bear to throw them out immediately, not when they still look so very appealing and misleadingly fresh.

But I have discovered that there are things that you can do with day-old doughnuts besides wishing they were fresh enough to eat.

You can make them into vases to hold single stems.

You can give them to a girl who likes rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.

You can use one to propose to or marry someone.

And you can use one as a sticky pincushion.

Then you can use them as food for birds to get sleek and fat on.