Birthdays and chocolate upside down cakes

It has been many moons since my last post, only because I have been busy in my day job and enjoying the spoils of the its not just ********** role - I think I may have become more voluptous all the delicious things on offer across lunch time.
My stint comes to an end on Saturday,and although I feel quite tired, I have had loads of fun and met some really really interesting people. The tiredness will wear off, and hopefully my freezer is well stacked with lots of lovely things that will feed me for at lease the next few months.
Last night I baked and iced a couple of cakes, and spent ages making sure that the choc cake for the office one was perfect, as it was for someone's special birthday. Carefully I carried it to catch the bus (still doing my bit for the planet and travelling on the express over the mountain) Carefully I carried it into the office and even more carefully placed it upon the desk. About 10 o'clock Norm got a bit enthusiastic and decided to dive in before the presentation and cake cutting ceremony, so my dear colleague Bev managed to intervene and put itwhere she thought it would be safe from overenthusiastic employees, under her watchful eye and on her desk.
We were all working and carrying on with the job at hand when there was a shreak from Bev, who had upended the cake - so there was my carefully iced choc cake now an upside down cake. It was just like the whole bread and butter scenario where bread always lands on the butter side up - and then it sticks like glue and you really have to leaver it off. As the birthday boy was not aware he had cake, it was somewhat like a British farce, with Bev and I as discreetly as possible levering the cake off the desk with a big egg slice, using a butter knife to stick the icing back on again and pretty it up, and praying that there were no loose staples or paperclips on the desk that would eventually make their appearance :0)