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roxylee123 Posted 15 Oct 2014 , 9:15pm
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I certainly have Tiddy, I have ended up with £75 all together. The postman's bag will be weighed down with cakey stuff next week lol. How's your little one any better, Angel is much better and will be ok for school tomorrow.

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Sock Monkey Posted 15 Oct 2014 , 9:34pm
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Thanks Sock Monkey, I remember you were cutting out something but can't remember what gluten maybe,how's it going?

 

Mr Roxy got me some new cakey stuff for my birthday of course I had to what to get. He got me a new cake leveller, mat and a cake tester which he got himself without me mentioning it. He also got me perfume, chocolates, flowers and put money in my card and cooked me tea.

 

Wow, that puts my cake leveller to shame! It even has a proper handle like hacksaw. You'll have to let us know what other goodies you buy with your birthday money (is it just me or do other people get excited about other people's presents/purchases too?)

 

Day 1 of gluten free diet today and had the blood test this morning. It doesn't seem so bad, but I imagine once I get cake cravings it'll seem more annoying. I've got a couple of gluten free bakes up my sleeve and I should know next week whether I have coeliac disease or not.

I've got my fruit soaking in brandy tonight and going to make my xmas cakes tomorrow (just two 6" cakes - one for us, one for my mother-in-law). Tiddy - I've managed to resist Pinterest until now, but just did a search for xmas cake designs and it kept taking me there, so maybe I should give in. My last couple of attempts weren't the most exciting (and the bottom one annoys because I didn't even get it central on the cake board, grr!)

 

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Tiddylicious Posted 15 Oct 2014 , 9:36pm
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Well she managed to keep toast down this morning but slept most of the day away bless her. Then she perked up a bit but by dinner time she was hot and head was hurting again :(. Did her a light dinner which she also kept down and she seemed lots better by bed time so have snuggled her down and fingers crossed! Shes been drinking plenty so will keep her home tomorrow in the hopes its a 48hr virus :???:

Been going mad with the anti bac today...door handles, light switches, bannisters lol. The cake room has been quarantined :cry:

 

Just as well I was ahead of myself really! Oh and i do have lots of cakey supplies coming this week (Kathys fault totally! lol) so i shall just look at it and plan :)

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Tiddylicious Posted 15 Oct 2014 , 9:37pm
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Oh Sock just give in...but make sure you have a few hours to spare/waste first lol. Very addictive!

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roxylee123 Posted 15 Oct 2014 , 10:05pm
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No its not just you Sock Monkey I love to hear about other peoples presents/purchases to.The leveller was only £12 on ebay but seems really strong. I have been super good for months now and not bought any cakey stuff but now I have birthday money just want to buy buy buy. I need some new clothes really but the cake stuff is calling lol. Give in to pinterest I did a while ago. I really like you xmas cakes from last year especially the red tree one. This is the one I made for my mum's house last year.

 

 

Tiddy hopefully it is just a 48hr thing and she will be right as rain in the morning.

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Tiddylicious Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 7:37am
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AWell she is indeedy feeling better :D....I on the other hand feel rubbish which was inevitable I suppose :( sharing is caring an all that! Grrr!

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nannycook121 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 7:38am
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AAw bless you tiddy,hope you feel better soon.x

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roxylee123 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 7:45am
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Awww you poor thing hope you feel better soon x

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nannycook121 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 8:00am
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AMorning all. Hope everyone and everyone's offspring's are feeling much better,including my own daughter,did thinks she has the flu.

I have some Halloween cupcakes to make,a dinosaur, pretty pink one not a serious one,and a fifty cake for two weeks time.

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roxylee123 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 8:11am
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Morning :smile:

 

I think I might make Halloween cupcakes for the trick or treaters instead of buying sweets just so I can do some caking. I usually make them for the family anyway so what's a few more.

 

I'm off to mu mum's to sit with the dog while she take the other one to the vets they hate being seperated, we think she will be put to sleep she's old now and poorly.

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nannycook121 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 8:16am
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AAw nooooooo, we had to do the same,broke our hearts tho. Bless her. Thats a good idea,hadn't thought of that.

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petitecat Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 8:22am
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Nanny, your 60th cake is lovely!

 

Mel, lovely rose! Is modelling chocolate easy to work with?

 

Lovely christmas cakes, sock monkey and roxy!

 

Nanny, I envy you all the cakes you're making. I can't wait for hubby's birthday. Thinking of making a carved ferrari cake.

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Relznik Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 9:43am
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Sad to hear so many people are poorly!  And quite a few of my FB friends have various lurgies, too.

 

I wish everyone better!!!

 

 

 

Due to a diary malfunction (ie I thought it started at 11am, but it actually started at 10am and I was still in my PJs) I didn't get to 20-20-20 class today.  If I'm honest, could prob do with a rest from it today.  AND have a lot of cake stuff to do. And I'm tired.  So, so tired.

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Lizzybug78 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 10:57am
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Morning ladies :D

 

Hello Ellie Sunshine, another new face! How's the weather in Oz? Nicer than the drizzly grey rubbish here I'll bet!

 

Roxy your minion cake is just brilliant. I want to hug them they're so adorable! It sounds like you had a brilliant birthday too, you were spoilt rotten :D

 

Suzanne, I bow to your willpower to get to that many classes. I have considered watching the exercise channel on telly, does that count? I do have to lift my arm all the way to my mouth for my cuppa while I'm watching after all...

 

Ooh, monopoly cake - does it have to be square? Could you have the monopoly man bursting out of the top hat, perhaps with the dog on his hind legs leaning against it, looking up at him and the 'it's your birthday' Chance card as the inscription?

 

Lynne, could any more of your family get ill? You must be up to 90 with it all. That's awful that your mum is still in pain, is there really nothing they can give her?

 

Who have I missed? Kathy? Did I see you're at hospital? Are you ok??

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Lizzybug78 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 10:58am
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(Another) Rant Alert!!

 

I managed to get the wedding cake done, but I had just the worst day. You know my eldest had E Coli? Well I had Environmental Health call me as all known incidences get reported to the health someone or other, and then EH get involved. I found out on Tuesday that they needed to visit, and arranged it for Weds afternoon. I'm not silly, so I hadn't traded at all whilst eldest was sick, which it turns out was their main concern. Got mum to call my aunt to tell her that eldest had been poorly yada yada, did she still want the cake (please say no!). She still wants it. On Tues all I managed to do was get the cake baked (yep, rich fruit baked on Tues for a Fri wedding, not great). Weds comes and I get a call just as I get home that youngest has left his books at home. Cue trip back to school with them. Get home again, missed one book, back to school. It's now 9.45, so I'm an hour down. 

 

I have a meeting booked for 10 with a lady, and I'm expecting it to take about 1/2 hour. She leaves at 12.20. Whilst she's there the lovely Southern Water chap turns up again to give me a load of details to help us, and confirms that what the builder is suggesting as a fix will not be passed by Southern Water, so that's a fight I have to have with them. My cake isn't marzipanned yet, let alone iced, and I need to clean the kitchen for the EH visit in 4 hours. Mum is also picking up the cake in 4 hours, so brainwave, she can pick up youngest after netball and collect cake then. Excellent, gained some time. 

 

Go to get cake drums to give a bit extra height to the cake, none in the right size as the sodding cake was only confirmed on the Tuesday. That's ok, my cake shop is 5 mins away. It's shut for annual holiday. Someone hates me. Drive to Hobbycraft, which is completely the opposite direction. Get back home. It's now 1.30 and my cake is still naked.

 

Marzipan cake, clean kitchen whilst giving it a few minutes to dry, get sheets onto the line, make royal icing, make wafer paper peony type flower (first go, loving wp, it's great!!).

 

Sugarpaste board, sugarpaste cake, clean down kitchen again (EH haven't visited me remember, despite me asking them to, so I'm desperate to have it looking spick and span).

 

I finally start to get the royal on at 2.45, but I've got nearly two hours so it's all good. I get a call at 3.10 from youngest 'I've hurt my foot so can't do netball, can you pick me up please?' ARGH! Go to pick him up, but he's not at the normal meeting place. Go to reception and am told to look on the playground, but he's not there either. Starting to panic now. No-one knows where he is, the school office thought he was at netball (why the hell was my 12 year old phoning me rather than them??). Finally at about 3.30 I spot his teacher who says 'oh yes, he's meeting you at the Co-op, I did tell him to tell you'. Didn't have time to lay into them yesterday for it, so I did that this morning! Finally get back home at 3.40 ish. Race to finish the rest of the icing, and it's actually looking ok, but I decide I need another peony thing, so make another. Am half way through that when EH turn up early. Now I have to explain that I'm not trading, it's for family, I'm not being paid, and they know what's happened. I then sit answering questions whilst finishing the cake off, which my mum has now turned up to take an hour away to my sister and I'm conscious that she's not happy driving  in the dark. 

 

I ask the EH lady if she minds if I take a photo before mum takes the cake (felt so rude, but hey ho). Take the photo, rushing a lot. 

 

EH lady says I can't work until I'm cleared (can't fault them on their safety practices) which could be two weeks. EH lady leaves, I go to check photos, no fricking card in the camera.

 

At this point I just thought sod it and gave up on the day. If I'd had an enormous bar of, well anything, I'd have had it.

 

So there we go. Another ranty post, I promise I won't do one for a while :D

 

 

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sugarluva Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 11:18am
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AWow lizzy I feel exhausted and stressed just reading your post! Don't you just hate it when days end up like that, the more you rush to get things done the longer things seem to take! I can't believe you got everything done in the end hut what a nightmare! You deserve a big bar of anything and a big glass of something!

Ooh the monopoly cake looks like it's going to be amazing. I like the idea of having some of the iconic counter things dotted around the cake, the dog, iron, boat, car etc. You could also add a couple of hotels and houses and lots of money! It sounds like a fun cake to make!

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Sock Monkey Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 11:19am
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At this point I just thought sod it and gave up on the day. If I'd had an enormous bar of, well anything, I'd have had it.

 

 

 Wow, Lizzy, that sounds like an enormously stressful day! Sounded like you need a bottle of something as well as a bar... Well done for getting it finished, despite everything else going on. I think I'd have probably lost an hour in a day like that having a bit of a cry, hehe. They'll take photos of the cake at the wedding, surely? Maybe you can ask your auntie to take some, just in case.

 

Two fruit cakes to bake this afternoon, then I can keep feeding them with brandy to get them really boozy for xmas :lol:. I'll make the xmas puddings next month. I even bought some special sherry for that.

 

I now sound like an alcoholic in this post, but I've actually only had two drinks this year. Honest!

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Lizzybug78 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 11:28am
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I now sound like an alcoholic in this post, but I've actually only had two drinks this year. Honest!

:lol::lol:

 

Mmm, Christmas cake and Christmas pudding. Can't bear to eat them but the smell is out of this world!

 

Sorry Sugar :D It was a biggun wasn't it 8O

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catsmum Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 11:59am
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Roxy - so sorry to hear about your mum's dog. Even when you know it's time it is so hard to part with them. My old cat with kidney problems is still carrying on. Costing me a fortune in renal cat food at £1.50 a small tin but you have to do what you can.

 

Tiddy, sorry to hear you are feeling under the weather. Typical now your little one is on the mend.

 

Lizzy - what a day - but you did have me laughing because all I had in my head was this picture of you like Billy Whizz - but you are probably far to young to know who that was! Re Mam - from what I have researched, heard and we have been told it is just a waiting game until the virus subsides. Her condition could be made worse if she develops postherpetic neuralgia (phn) as that doesn't subside apparently. Sods law there is a vaccine for shingles aged 70-79 but too late for her as she is 81.

 

Dying to see the Monopoly cake and all of yours too Barbara. What design are you doing for your 50th cake. I too usually do cupcakes for the trick or treaters so have bought some new stencils and I have lots of moulds to play with too. I'm also going to do a skull cake if I have time. I've had the tin for a year and need to dust it off!  :smile: . DH just announced last night that there is a golf comp on this Sun that he can enter and would I mind if he played. (He doesn't usually play at weekends). Would I mind??? Serious cake day coming up - Yippee - unless things deteriorate and I have to drive North again. :sad:

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petitecat Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 12:37pm
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Aw Lizzy, poor you! But goodness that's incredible- you made a cake against the odds!

 

Roxy, missed the bit about your mum's dog- I keep speed reading the thread and missing things! Sorry to hear about that- pets are the adopted members of family x

 

Catsmum, I'll cross my fingers that the virus goes soon for your mum.

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DaysCakes Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 1:29pm
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Lizzy - I was at the hospital with my hubby yesterday for a small procedure - guess we'll find out the results in a couple of weeks.  I'm fine - although got to get something checked on Monday (at the same hospital - they're gonna know me by name soon).  Wow - you've been busy.  That e-coli thing is nasty isn't it.  You've had a really taxing time.  You'd only kick yourself if you had had a "bar of something".  It does just show you though how resilient you are! :)

 

Tiddy - come on......blaming me???   haha!  You love it really ;)

 

Lynne - I was in the Drs yesterday and there is a vaccination for shingles for older people - did you know?  bit late I know but it was a surprise to me.  Sorry that she's not over it - it's very painful.

 

Sock Monkey - I'm on Pinterest but I find it annoying....I keep getting emails saying somebody or other "has repinned my pins" - what's that all about??  Gets on my nerves.

 

Suzanne - you are doing wayyyyy too much!  That cake idea sounds fab - got nothing else except rice paper printed money??  Hopefully your DS will get some real stuff!!

 

I have a mad busy day at work today so have to sign off now - late lunch now over!

 

Kathy

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Lizzybug78 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 1:41pm
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I missed the bit about your mum's dog too Roxy, that's so sad, I'm sorry xx

 

So you just have to wait it out Lynne? That sucks. Is there any timescale they can give you?

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Lizzybug78 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 1:45pm
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Lizzy - I was at the hospital with my hubby yesterday for a small procedure - guess we'll find out the results in a couple of weeks.  I'm fine - although got to get something checked on Monday (at the same hospital - they're gonna know me by name soon). You should take them a cake in, they'll treat you really well then :) Wow - you've been busy.  That e-coli thing is nasty isn't it.  You've had a really taxing time.  You'd only kick yourself if you had had a "bar of something".  It does just show you though how resilient you are! :) I'd love to say that's true, but I just couldn't be ar*ed to go out and get one :)

 

 

Sounds like we're all running around at the moment doesn't it!?

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roxylee123 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 3:44pm
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Well my mum's dog came home from the vets which surprised us, they are doing a urine test then blood test if needed but it doesn't sound hopeful he felt a lump in her stomach and thinks it's internal problems, she has lost a lot of weigh but her stomach is swollen, she struggles to walk, is off her food and is drinking water like it's going out of fashion, so just have to wait and see now. Thanks for all the kind words.

 

Thanks Lizzy. Wow what a day, and you managed to get the cake done on time you deserve a medal. Does that mean you will get your certificate from EH now as they have been out?

 

Catsmum hope you feels some relief soon and your cat is ok to . Hope you get your cakey day you deserve a bit of fun and you time.

 

Kathy hope your hubby is ok and everything goes ok for you on monday.

 

I bought this out of my birthday money today bargain!, I saw it in a shop last week for £12.99.

http://www.dunelm-mill.com/shop/shoe-icing-mould-set-457439

 

Oh I can't remember who it was wanting the loose bottomed mini cake tins from lakeland but I spotted these if there any good. I haven't looked at them in store so don't know if they have straight sides but may be worth a look.

http://www.wilko.com/search?q=12+hole+tin&searchsubmit.x=0&searchsubmit.y=0

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catsmum Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 4:00pm
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Lizzy - I was at the hospital with my hubby yesterday for a small procedure - guess we'll find out the results in a couple of weeks.  I'm fine - although got to get something checked on Monday (at the same hospital - they're gonna know me by name soon).

 

Lynne - I was in the Drs yesterday and there is a vaccination for shingles for older people - did you know?  bit late I know but it was a surprise to me.  Sorry that she's not over it - it's very painful.

 

 

Kathy

Kathy hope the results for both you and DH are fine. Yes we knew about the vaccination but it's only given to those between 70 and 79. Mum is 81. I think she could cope better if she knew there was some kind of timeframe on it but all they have said is it could be "a long time".

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DaysCakes Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 4:37pm
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Thanks everyone - it's the waiting.  We are both being tested for skin cancer at the same time can you believe - I actually had one removed just before my birthday in May but on Monday i should find out if they got it all.  Hubby only went to the GP about his hearing and the GP noticed this mark on his head - so just have to wait and see.  I am quite optimistic because they gave me good feedback.  He's not taking it quite as well though - hopefully we shall know within the next 2-3 weeks.

 

I'm sorry to hear about your mum's dog Roxy - pets are part of the family and when I lost my cat around 5 years ago it was awful.  Haven't felt like getting another since she was one of us.

 

Oh Lizzy I would take them a cake if they were nice but they're a miserable bunch - can't even give me eye contact!  No cake for them!

 

Lynne that's awful!  Wtf do those ages mean?  You work all your bloody life and then can't get something because you're 2 years too old!  Oh don't get me started.....:-x

 

Well haven't caught up yet but got to sort out dinner now.  Will check in later.

 

Kathy

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nannycook121 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 6:19pm
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AOh dear Kathy,hope you the all clear for you and hubby,such a fraught time for you both.

Lizzy,your builders need a kick up the rear end don't they,bless you.

Sorry about poor doggie,I do know how that feels.

Lynne,she wants fairly simple cake so nothing too stressful there thankfully.

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m4rvelgeek Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 6:39pm
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AHi all, sorry I'm AWOL all the time. Work is crazy. In addition to all my usual stuff, I've now been asked to work on some research with a university and write up my last lot of masters research for a educational journal, this is in additional to my new SMT responsibilities this year and out of school support for other schools. Oh and teaching, planning, marking, buddying new colleagues, providing CPD, etc that I already do. Managing to stay on top of it all and cakes, but means I am run ragged, hence not a lot of time for interneting...

On a brighter note, just finished this one for delivery tomorrow - the bl**dy dragon has been the bane of my life all week - wings came off twice and now a leg has dried wonky, but sure the client won't mind... ;)

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Lizzybug78 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 6:49pm
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AOh Kathy that's got to be worrying. And for them to not be civil is really taking the micky. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for both of you x

I do feel for you roxy, I was heartbroken when we had to have my gorgeous lurcher put down, it breaks your heart doesn't it.

'Ages' Well that's helpful isn't it? At least they weren't vague about it... :/

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Lizzybug78 Posted 16 Oct 2014 , 6:51pm
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AToothless is spot on M4rvel! That's bloody brilliant!

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