Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations delves deeply into my favourite area of philosophy: lingustic philosophy. He uses a vast range of analogies to challenge the foundations of our linguistic concepts, especially concerning meaning. For example, he asks: 'how many houses does it take before a town becomes a town?' challenging what we mean numerically when we diffrentiate between a town as opposed to a village or city.
I like this idea, and whilst I've been on this chaptre: all four of my second year housemates have moved in, and we celebrated with friends round for tea and cake today. So, I decided it was time I went back to landscape cakes. I've already done the North of England; time to go south. The other three all being from London, it made sense that the centre-piece cake was the grandest home in Britain, Buckingham palace.
To construct such a building from sponge: fill a square tin with double quantity cake mixture, once baked and cooled, divide in half, cut off a section for a garden or front road, and sandwich the two oblongs using jam (we had some Yorkshire-made cranberry & vodka jam from the food festival, incredible stuff) and quite thick blobs of icing on each corner, which act as a glue. You can then attach the slice to the front or back as you wish.
Rolled icing is better for a smoother facing on all sides, but as I had none, thick icing had to do, with green to emphasise the road. The windows and roof lining were shavings from a chocolate bar, and the London-themed decorations were from Morrisons.
The perfect welcome.
