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You know you work in telecoms when your desk has five different phones and you decide that actually for your testing, that's not enough and you really need a sixth phone.

And I do mean different. Currently there's an old phone hooked up to the PBX, a SIP client running on a PC, and three SIP phones (of which one has a single line, one has two lines, and one has four lines - all of which are enabled and will do something). It gets very silly juggling all the handsets and headsets when you've got multiple calls being transferred every which way!

The cake will not be a lie

Have I Got News For You is on form tonight - they've just shown an excellent example of why trying to fit four headlines in a single tweet is an amusingly bad idea...

Anyway, what was I going to post about? Ah yes, cake!

My mum posted a yoghurt cake recipe a while back on A Letter From Home and I had a go at making it when I was last in Horsham. It came out rather well, so I've picked up the necessary ingredients and am having another go!

I'm making apple and blackcurrant cake using a blackcurrant yoghurt and two peeled, cored and sliced apples. I've followed the recipe mostly as posted, except I've only used one pot of sugar as the yoghurt is a sweetish one. It's currently in the oven and I'll find out in a while how successful it is. There's a trick to telling if it's ready: poke it with something. If your poking-thing comes out gooey, then it needs a bit longer in the oven.