When somebody announces that it is beer and cake day, you already know that it is going to be a very special day.

April 7^th is National Coffee Cake Day, National Beer Day, and National No Housework Day, which makes perfect sense as I don’t imagine that anyone would want to do housework when they could be eating coffee cake and drinking beer. April 7^th is a good day.

Before living here, I was not aware that there were so many national days celebrating elements of everyday life. I have certainly never heard of National No Housework Day, that is a day I could have celebrated to the fullest, had I known. Nowadays I don’t have housework to do so I suppose every day is no housework day for us.

We had a fabulous time, trying various beers and sharing our opinions which you won’t be surprised to hear, got slightly more vociferous as the afternoon went on. Our chef created some wonderful cakes for us to sample and as usual we “sampled” way too many.

What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon, the aroma of cake and beer filled the air, and everyone was in good spirits.

If you missed out this year, put it in your diary for next year because beer, cake and no housework makes for a pretty good way to spend a day.