52 Thoughts I Had Watching GBBO - The Semi-Final

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  1. Semi-final. SEMI-FINAL. "Let's get the semis on." - Sue Perkins, 2015.
  2. Tamal vs Nadiya vs Flora vs Ian. Let the baking games begin.
    Knew I'd find a cheesy picture at some point
  3. I did not know it was chocolate week. There has never been a worse time to not have chocolate in the house.
  4. Mel saying "chocolate" is my favourite thing from September.
  5. Challenge Uno (signature bake): chocolate tart. I've never made one of these before, maybe because I prefer to eat an entire large bar of Cadbury's.
    *drools uncontrollably*
  6. Tamal + praline = heaven in a tent.
  7. Flora is making macaroons. I THOUGHT THIS WAS A CHOCOLATE TART CHALLENGE FLORA NOT A MACAROON CHALLENGE WHEN WILL YOU EVER LISTEN
  8. Nadiya's tart plan sounds t-o  d-i-e  f-o-r. In fact, she just received the Mary Berry Wink of Approval.
    BAKING APPROVAL GOALS
  9. Sarah's sat next to me and she's not sure about Ian's bay leaves. It does sound like an odd idea, but Ian has proved himself to be a bona fide genius so I have faith.
  10. *applauds Flora for sticking to her over-complicated ways*
  11. *applauds Flora for sticking to her freeze-everything-in-the-freezer technique*
  12. I find Paul scary too, Nadiya. But in a more ridiculously-blue-eyed way, and less in a judge-y way.
  13. TART TIME IS UP. Says Mel (sorry Mel, I stole your line).
  14. Tamal's tart is top Instagram material.
  15. Yaaaaaaay! Paul likes it!
  16. Drat, Ian. The bay leaves didn't work. Am actually excited about Ian potentially not winning now, though.
  17. Nadiya kicking butt once again. Paul Hollywood handshake received. You heard.
    Nads nerding out about that handshake. Probs. Maybe.
  18. Flora, those macaroons are as pretty as a very pretty thing.
  19. BUT PAUL DOESN'T LIKE THEM, arrrrrrr. Oh gosh. This is unnerving.
  20. Oh lord what is going on now?! Flora is making a chocolate soufflé on her own in the tent. So that's Challenge numero dos. And they all have different starting times.
  21. She's never made a souffle. OH POO. Why are they so mean.
  22. Ian's face. Ahahahahah. 1 hour and 15 minutes too. I used to envy these people and now I really reeeeeeeeally do not.
  23. Crème pat sounds like the French version of this guy: 
  24. Tamal's in last. Ok - they're all in the tent. Nobody has ever made a soufflé before. GUYS.
  25. Nadiya having a slight breakdown. All thanks to Mel pointing out the paperclips.
  26. Let the blind tasting commence. Flora's up first. She did guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurd.
  27. Ian also did ok. Not as good as Flora though.
  28. Nadiya, no! It didn't work! How has Flora never made one and yet it's perfect?! Only conclusion I can come to is that she's a magician.
  29. YES TAMAL. MA BOI.
  30. The results: Nads in 4th. Ian in 3rd (say what). Tamal the babe in 2nd. Aaaaaand as predicted, Flora in 1st!
  31. Right - Nadiya almost made me cry. 10 seconds of her tearing up was more effective than the entire of Titanic in terms of tear production.
    SO SAD
  32. Challenge numero tres: anything with white chocolate in.
  33. Tamal's making a bell tower. Out of chocolate and biscuits. Can this guy get any more perfect.
    Just found this - yes, yes he can
  34. Flora's making a carousel with chocolate dorses (dog horses).
  35. I can sense Nadiya's nerves from our lounge.
  36. Extremely excited for the peacock. The chocolate kind. Just to clarify.
  37. Yeah - I can't remember what Ian's making. I'll try and work it out from what he's saying and get back to you.
  38. Nadiya's blue/green tail feathers are my favourite colours of all time. I think my eyes just exploded with delight.
  39. 100 feathers, yes, but who wants a chocolate quail when you can have a peacock. Exactly.
  40. Ok, Ian's making something round. This doesn't help me massively, as that's the general shape of all cakes.
  41. RUN SUE RUN!!!!!!! There's an edible carousel disaster at the back of the tent.
  42. Done. Over. Vamoosh. Smoosh. Ploosh. etc
  43. Tamal. Yes.
  44. So I take it back. Ian has made something quite amazing. "Is there enough chocolate work?" says Paul. "HE MADE A BL**DY WELL," says Sarah. Sadly the show is neither live nor interactive. 

  45. Argh, Paul and Mary can taste rising agent in Flora's bake. Aaaaaaaaaaand it's fallen down.
  46. Awwwwwwwww Nadiyaaaaaaaaaaa. The peacock looks so cool.
  47. IT TASTES GOOD. IT LOOKS GOOD. YESSSSSSSSSS. Nadiya can't leave now surely.
  48. Now it's the strangely intimate meeting between P, MB, MG & SP.
  49. Ian vs. Flora for the bottom two.
  50. YAY NADIYA! Star baker!!! I'm so proud :D
  51. And Flora's gone. It's sad, but not as sad as it would have been if Nads had left.
  52. There's no preview of the final. How can we prepare?!
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