In Need Of Chocolate Cake!

 "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings." —Zuzu Bailey (It's A Wonderful Life)

Welcome to my Thursday Coffee Morning 🧉

Out comes a great Christmas Jumper↓

Breakfast and Brew time.

Time to add the thermal vest....

With the Minion Christmas Jumper!

Good frost last night, good job I covered up Sexy Beast.

Uncovered Sexy Beast.

I gave hubby a sloppy wet one 💋before I left.

On goes my Winter coat, two hats and my winter gloves.

I gets the newspaper.

Swaps that for my big stick.

Now to turn on my lights.

Oh dear.

Plenty of Tank Drivers about this morning.

(Tank Drivers are those drivers that don't scrape all the frost of their windscreens and look out of the windscreen through a little hole!)

Plus it being cold, I am glad I have lots of layers on!

At least the sun was coming out.

(Not good for this afternoon, as I am going to have low lying sun problems)

Finished in one piece.

Exchanges my winter coat to my teddy coat.

I walk down to the Public Loos and then to the local coffee shop for a much needed coffee.

Visited the Charity Shop.

Got a bargain boxset.

I gets my cake box out of Sexy Beast.

Then onto the Coffee Morning.

I tried 15 times on the raffle, and didn't win a thing :(

I bought a line of raffle tickets.

Let's hope I win something.

Coffee time.

I bought the Chocolate cake :)

I said goodbye to everyone when I finished my coffee and cake.

Back home.

Another coffee is needed.

Liquid Lunch time.

I didn't get a phone call, so I didn't win nothing on the main raffle.

Now out to do the afternoon shift.

On goes those big big sunglasses.

Big winter coat, winter hat and gloves.

I goes and turns on my lights.

Low lying sun alert!

Has a little rabbit with my friends up to the time I start my afternoon shift.

Oh dear, it went from bad to worst!

In the middle of the road, car comes up the road too fast, slams his brakes on!

Nearly ended up over his bonnet!

Car after car failed to stop on my side.

BOINGs were given out freely! 

Was so glad to finish in one piece!

Back home for a brew!

Then it was time to start on tonight's tea.

Hubby came home and had a sloppy wet one 💋

Tea is served.

Yum!

Now to look into today's Newspaper.

UK No.1 on this day in 1979:

The Police - Walking On The Moon. 

UK No.1 on this day in 1984:

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Power of Love

UK No.1 on this day in 2001:

Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru' This

US No.1 on this day in 1956:

Guy Mitchell - Singing The Blues

US No.1 on this in 1984:

Daryl Hall and John Oates - Out of Touch

Heardle Time:

Heardle 60s:

My answers:

We caught up with the news.

Sleep Tea Time.

The Friday Feeling 🎈 is back tomorrow 🎈

 

 

 

 




 

 

 

Road Trip To Kidderminster...

“On Wednesdays we wear pink" - Mean Girls

We have reached Hump of the Week 🐫

Another nice day to wake up with a warm hubby.. 

 I wakes up early for a nice cup of tea..

Goes back into a snuggle....

We then gets up at 8am...

Once we get up, 

Time to leave the house!

 Nice ride to Kidderminster...

Popped into Morrisons↓

 

 Wow↑

 A good CD to get↑

Bumped into my hubby's Aunt and Cousin while we were in there.

Then went to see Hubby's dad, gave him his card and presents..

On the way out to the car...

Anyone a nice settee?????↓↓

 Those dark clouds came over...↓

 I just got back home in time to get to work...

 Chocolate cake anyone???

(I have gone off both!)

 It is still raining...

Once we had our evening meal...

We slipped into our pjs and watched another film...

 I had a quick look at the Birthdays.

Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty,): is an American film, television, and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author. An Academy Award winner, MacLaine received the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2012, and received the Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts in 2013. 

She is 85 years old.

Barbara  Streisand : Is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. In a career spanning six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment and has been recognized with two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, four Peabody Awards,the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes. 

She is 77 years old.

Pete Ham : Was a Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as a lead vocalist and composer of the 1970s rock band Badfinger, whose hit songs include "No Matter What", "Day After Day" and "Baby Blue". He also co-wrote the ballad "Without You", a worldwide number-one hit for Harry Nilsson that has become a standard covered by hundreds of artists. Ham was granted two Ivor Novello Awards related to the song in 1973.  

He died aged 27 in 1975.

 Car firm British Leyland launch the Austin Maxi in Oporto Portugal in 1969.

I went to bed really excited,

As we are watching "Avengers:End Game" tomorrow in 3D.

 

 

 

Drama & Crisis Rolled Into Cake!

Today was the day I was going to make that cake.....

I got out of the house to get some milk from Lidl...

 

 

 I asked in Lidl if they sold the Wonky box.

They didn't :(

 Dunelm selling nice stuff...↑↑

Now to start on the cake finally...

Wrote out the recipe..

 Things didn't start brilliantly when I discovered we had no coco powder!

Into Sexy Beast to get some...

 

 

 I decide to use Kane the Kenwood this time.

It didn't help, that as soon I turned him on.

He went way too fast, and I lost most of the mixture through the gaping hole of the lid...

 I added some more mixture, and poured it into the cake tins..

Into the oven it went...

Time for much needed Coffee....

 Once the chocolate sponges were cooled down, I knew I was going to have problems...

I made the peppermint chocolate mix to go in the middle of the cake. The top sponge was falling apart. I add the shiny chocolate for the top of the cake....

Oh dear, this isn't going to end right....

I made a chocolate collar and put it in the fridge to set...

In the meantime...

It's tea time...

 Chop Chop Time.

 Vegetables in Creamy Mustard Sauce with Chorizo

To the sound of groans in my house..

Back to watch more Bake Off...