Being nosey

On our arrival in Devon, we were greeting by a Madeira cake. Quite a satisfactory cake, but somewhere along the way they had forgotten to put the seeds in, as per reference 1. Perhaps the cook did not know who the cake was for. But they had put glycerine in, perhaps to help the cake keep its fresh texture for longer than it might otherwise.

A product of a company called Bakehouse & Delights. A small private limited company with lots of listings in various business directories, but no information of any interest to a lay person. Accounts have been filed but they are very thin.

One of these addresses was a unit in an industrial estate near Wellington, in Somerset. Took me a while to get the hang of the unit numbering system, not helped by the presence on Street View of a large slab of concrete being poured nearby. At least three mixer wagons and one large concrete pump. But I got there, with the result included above.

Another of the addresses was in Fore Street, Wellington, where I was confused by the absence of street numbers on most of the buildings. Perhaps the Google software rubs out as many as it can find in the interests of privacy. Terminally confused, in that I failed to connect any of the premises in said Fore Street to Bakehouse & Delights.

Presumably they put their stuff out through other peoples' cake shops, tea shops and cafés in the area, rather than operate their own places.

PS: Microsoft in the dog house today. Snaps taken on my mobile getting on for a couple of weeks ago now have still not turned up on OneDrive on my laptop. This despite the fact that some of those taken in the last few days have turned up. Maybe one day I will get to the bottom of the algorithms they use to select snaps for onward transmission. Option 1: OneDrive is struggling to cope with all the traffic arising from all the zooming going on. And other stuff of that sort. Option 2: BT is sulking because I have not yet taken up their offer for superfast Broadband (which I don't need - what I have now is more than enough for my modest needs) and they have put me in the isolation block. Option 3: maybe my mobile phone is struggling to cope, now that Microsoft have more or less stopped supporting it, keeping it lined up with the stream of updates for mainstream Windows. No doubt more options will come to mind as the evening progresses. What are advertisement breaks for, after all?

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/10/birthday-lunch.html.

Reference 2: https://www.mademoiselledesserts.com/. In the margins of all this, Bing turned up a much larger cake operation called the Ministry of Cake, which had a factory in nearby Taunton. Apparently bought by these Mademoiselle people. Not previously heard of either of them. Complicated business is cakes.