Of geeks, guys and pies

So, it seems as if the Girl had a good time at her geekfest yesterday. She was back there for more today, and came home with a souvenir T-shirt.

Meanwhile the Boy invited a bunch of friends round.  Their plans to produce a music video didn't quite work out, but for several hours there was a lot of fun-being-had noise from the basement, plus some loud rampaging in what remains of the snow in the backyard.

I spent an entire afternoon baking a sweet potato pie.  If I'd read Jamie Oliver's recipe more carefully in the first place I might never have embarked on the project - the potatoes had to be pre-baked, the pastry had to rest in the fridge, then rest again in the freezer before being blind-baked...and on and on.  It took for-bloomin'-ever before anything looking like a pie ended up in the oven.

 

However, it is a pretty nice pie after all that - even the Man says so, and he's not much of a one for vegetable-based desserts.