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com. Hello and

me Rob.

me Rob.

thanks for joining me in the kitchen today

fey-fei for the unveiling of my new cake it's just a cake rob but if it's

good I'm happy to try a slice well let's get it out of the oven now.

There you go.

Tada!

Um, looks great, Rob.

But let's try it.

It's a bit stodgy,

heavy, even lumpy.

Right, so you don't actually like it.

I followed the recipe exactly, although perhaps I forgot to do something to the flower.

Oh, I seem to, oh I seem to have a memory like a sieve.

That's it, I didn't sieve the flower. That explains the lumps. No, Rob. I meant you have a memory like a sieve.

When we say someone has a memory like a sieve,

we mean they have a very bad memory and forget things easily. Your memory is bad Rob. You can't

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