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Author:  Zardoz [ Mon Sep 12, 2011 16:36 ]
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Heard on Radio 2 that it's National Cupcake Week.

Hope you reflected this in your marketing activity, Trooper.
Author:  Trooper [ Mon Sep 12, 2011 17:11 ]
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Blimey, so it is! I think we are a bit late this year to get involved, seeing as the 2011 champion has been crowned. :D

2012 though, this is our olympics...
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Sep 12, 2011 17:12 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
Heard on Radio 2 that it's National Cupcake Week.

Hope you reflected this in your marketing activity, Trooper.
I think it might be reflected in my face activity.
Author:  Bobbyaro [ Mon Sep 12, 2011 17:21 ]
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Cupcake Hutch advertised in Watford!
Author:  Trooper [ Mon Sep 12, 2011 17:22 ]
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Woohoo! Cheers dude :)
Author:  Trooper [ Fri Sep 16, 2011 22:13 ]
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Latest cakes, all handmade.

Needless to say, these ones cost a little bit more than £2 each! :D
Author:  Four_Candles [ Fri Sep 16, 2011 22:42 ]
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Bloody hellfire, it would be an utter crime to nosh on such loveliness. But they do look bloody lovely. :D
Author:  Curiosity [ Fri Sep 16, 2011 22:49 ]
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Trooper wrote:
Latest cakes, all handmade.

Needless to say, these ones cost a little bit more than £2 each! :D


£2.25?








Seriously, wow. Those are awesome.
Author:  Zardoz [ Fri Sep 16, 2011 23:05 ]
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They look fantastic.
Author:  Trooper [ Fri Sep 16, 2011 23:14 ]
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:) they take a while to do, so are much more of a special occasion cake, but they do look awesome :D
Author:  sdg [ Fri Sep 16, 2011 23:42 ]
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Thankfully, I have not drank enough beer to comment on the cupcake in the bottom right. The one with the braids :DD
They look awesome, must have taken a while!
Author:  kalmar [ Sat Sep 17, 2011 0:03 ]
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Lol!

Good work mrs trooper ;)
Author:  Trooper [ Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:45 ]
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Heh, I think I'll turn that one round when I take the photos for the website :D
Author:  Malabelm [ Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:48 ]
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I didn't realise Rabbis styles their vaginas as well. Learn something new every day. Cheers!
Author:  DavPaz [ Sun Sep 18, 2011 0:56 ]
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Mazel tav!
Author:  Zardoz [ Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:25 ]
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You should make fanny cakes.

What type of sponge would work best with cottage cheese though?
Author:  Trooper [ Fri Sep 30, 2011 0:57 ]
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Mrs T has started up a cupcake blog :)

http://www.thecupcakehutch.blogspot.com/

If you like it, it would be much appreciated if you could link to it :)
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:21 ]
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Gilly wrote:
Thankfully, I have not drank enough beer to comment on the cupcake in the bottom right. The one with the braids :DD
We were all thinking the same thing.
Author:  Trooper [ Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:27 ]
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Knackered this morning.

Phone call 9pm last night "We've been let down by our catering company, can you do 100 cakes for tomorrow lunchtime?" "You can, great!" :facepalm:

Glitter explosion in the flat till 1:30am :D
Author:  Zardoz [ Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:32 ]
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Trooper wrote:
Glitter explosion in the flat till 1:30am :D

Image
Author:  Trooper [ Sat Oct 22, 2011 17:31 ]
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Afternoon.

Another 100 cakes to make tonight! YAY! :facepalm:

I have a favour to ask, I'm going to piss around with the website a bit tomorrow, and would like to add a few testimonials. For those of you that have had the pleasure of sampling Mrs T's delights :hat:, would any of you be willing to pm me a testimonial?

You know the sort of thing
"These cupcakes are totally awesome, I would rub them over my naked body if I didn't scoff them all in 3 seconds every time" Pete, 98, from Gloucestershire
etc...

I will love you all forever.
Author:  Cras [ Sat Oct 22, 2011 17:49 ]
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No worries, I'll send something over.
Author:  Trooper [ Sat Oct 22, 2011 18:17 ]
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Ta, much appreciated :)
Author:  Trooper [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 15:16 ]
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Lots of new photies on the website if people are interested. No testimonial page as yet, but i'll do that this week if I had a couple more <cough> ;)

Weirdly, google results differ between browsers? If I search for "Cupcakes Milton Keynes" in Safari, Chrome and Firefox, the website comes back at different places in the listings?
Author:  Cras [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 15:39 ]
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Something odd going on with the layout - using IE9 in 1280x1024:
Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 15:41 ]
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Same in Chrome in 1920x1080
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 15:44 ]
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Trooper wrote:
Weirdly, google results differ between browsers? If I search for "Cupcakes Milton Keynes" in Safari, Chrome and Firefox, the website comes back at different places in the listings?

Are you logged in to Google on any of them?
Author:  Trooper [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 15:45 ]
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Jeez, I fixed that last week. Bloody sitefusion rubbish

Cheers I'll have a look tonight.
Author:  Trooper [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 15:47 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
Same in Chrome in 1920x1080


Not getting that though, working fine in my chrome here. You on 14?
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 15:47 ]
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I'll write something later for you.
Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 15:48 ]
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Trooper wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
Same in Chrome in 1920x1080


Not getting that though, working fine in my chrome here. You on 14?

yup
Author:  Trooper [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 15:49 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Weirdly, google results differ between browsers? If I search for "Cupcakes Milton Keynes" in Safari, Chrome and Firefox, the website comes back at different places in the listings?

Are you logged in to Google on any of them?


Ah, i've logged into a different gmail account on each browser. That'll be it.
Author:  Trooper [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 15:51 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
Trooper wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
Same in Chrome in 1920x1080


Not getting that though, working fine in my chrome here. You on 14?

yup


Windows box I assume? Bloody Windows users :D

I think i'm just going to trash the page tonight and rebuild it, it'll be quicker than bug fixing sitefusion.
I'll probably post when I think it is fixed if people could give it a go.
Author:  Trooper [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 15:52 ]
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MaliA wrote:
I'll write something later for you.


Ta :) Although I should probably hold of the thanks until after I see what you write ;)
Author:  Trooper [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 21:41 ]
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In theory, the website should be fixed now?
Author:  Cras [ Mon Oct 31, 2011 22:37 ]
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Looks better. The writing is still pink though.
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Nov 01, 2011 0:31 ]
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:S

Attachment:
The Cupcake Hutch Hand made cupcakes in the Milton Keynes area.png


Browser info etc in PDF.
Author:  Trooper [ Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:02 ]
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I get that occasionally, but a refresh fixes it. No idea why!

The task over xmas is going to be to rip the site out of sitefusion and make it a bog standard HTML site...
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:45 ]
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Trooper wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Weirdly, google results differ between browsers? If I search for "Cupcakes Milton Keynes" in Safari, Chrome and Firefox, the website comes back at different places in the listings?
Are you logged in to Google on any of them?
Ah, i've logged into a different gmail account on each browser. That'll be it.
I'm not convinced you even need to be logged in. I think Google will customise search result ordering based on your search history, even if all it knows about you is a handful of cookies. In which case if you start with three browsers with blank cookies and log them all out, then search for different things in each one without logging in, then search results will diverge between them over time automatically.
Author:  kalmar [ Sat Dec 03, 2011 21:39 ]
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Judy's going all-out to corner the market in pervy cakes. I approve.

Mildly NSFW!

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
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Dares/special requests accepted.
Author:  Mr Dave [ Sun Dec 04, 2011 0:47 ]
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kalmar wrote:
Judy's going all-out to corner the market in pervy cakes. I approve.

Mildly NSFW!

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Attachment:
P1010101.jpg

Attachment:
P1010008.jpg


Dares/special requests accepted.


"H, Kevn. We hear you like Chicks wth Dicks"

wtf?
Author:  Trooper [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:16 ]
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So, a few more images of cupcakes:

Attachment:
cupcakes1.jpg

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cupcakes2.jpg

Attachment:
cupcakes3.jpg


and that is pretty much the end of our cupcake journey :) For a few not unsurprising reasons.

1) everyone who ordered basically wants the bog standard cupcakes, not fancy bespoke stuff.
2) making bog standard cupcakes 100 at a time is boring as fuck.
3) which was making Mrs T hate rather than love baking.

We made a few hundred quid in the end after the cost of setting up, and it might be something Mrs T goes back to in the future, but with working at Hotel Chocolate and her BA job coming up in a few months, spending her spare time making a million cupcakes that are all the same isn't the most fun in the world.

Not sure whether to try and flog the business, but the order book is nowhere near enough to get any sort of money that would be worth the effort, or to just shut it down. Mrs T has a friend over Bedford way who makes wedding cakes and cupcakes, might see if she wants to buy all our cake boxes and cupcakes stands, or even have them for free in return for making us a wedding cake! :D

Good fun while it lasted (or at least it was at the start :D ) but when the phone rings and your first thought is "oh crap" rather than "woo, an order" I think it's time to stop.
Author:  Zardoz [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:21 ]
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Well at least you didn't loose money from giving it a go. Hope you can sell your remaining cake related stuff to the lady you mentioned.

That's the trouble with customers, they always want stuff the boring stuff you can't be arsed making. :DD

I look forward to designing the logo for your next venure. :)
Author:  Trooper [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:24 ]
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Zardoz wrote:

That's the trouble with customers, they always want stuff the boring stuff you can't be arsed making. :DD

I look forward to designing the logo for your next venure. :)


Are those two points related? ;)
Author:  Zardoz [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:32 ]
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Not at all.

*uncrosses fingers*
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