The #1 Cure for Lack of Joy

If you're all together with family this summer you may be experiencing cabin fever from doing nothing all day, or you may have discovered a sling-shot effect through time from doing way too much all day and staying up all night with sea turtles. In both of these cases, and in fact in any case at all, I'd recommend fairy cakes.

The addition of these fairy cakes increased household happiness by 41.83%.

My stomach hurts with the abundance of both joy and icing, and the best part is that I made them the completely lazy way using cake mix from a box and readymade icing. These cakes contain complete happiness and minimal effort; the essence of summer. 

Ocnophiloidea regularis

Found this little guy crawling around the patio table the day before yesterday. He's kinda hard to see but I think that was sort of the point. 

Eventually he settled down into his stick stance, shown here, where he straightened out his two front legs and antennae while letting his tail flick about in the breeze. It was very stick-like. After some research, I'm going to say that this is probably a 'Trinidad Twig', the Ocnophiloidea regularis species of stick insect.