My friend picked me up and we went to Park Cakes in Oldham. When I’d seen her the other day, I told her I’d never been and she told me we needed to rectify that. I said if I didn’t get to go in 2025 that the year would be ruined. We tried to go last Friday at 10:30ish but there was queue (around 40 people) and she didn’t have time to wait so we abandoned it. This time, we got there at around 9:45 and the queue was even bigger! It opened at ten and there were already around 60 people in front of us. It was freezing but we got in line and we were allowed in at around 10:20. I wanted a Colin the Caterpillar cake (this year Colin is a cracker) but they’d sold out and I don’t want one enough to pay full price. I did get stollen and some tubs of chocolate cake bite things. My friend wanted a birthday cake for her mum. She said she’d considered getting her wedding cakes from there too but I said maybe it had been ok to buy cake that wasn’t seconds for her wedding. After that we went back to her house and assembled decorations for her mum’s birthday. Then we met our other friend for lunch. She’s our corporate friend and likes to talk about work a lot.