Pinny time

 Everyone must have a favourite cake. Whilst a Victoria sandwich cake is always welcome my favourite is a madeira cake with caraway seeds. I read somewhere that the amount of caraway seeds should just be enough to give the cake an aroma of caraway. Not for me, I have yet to eat a cake that has too many caraway seeds.

Another cake favourite is a chocolate cake made with oil instead of margerine or butter. Don't let the idea of vegetable oil put you off, the cake is very light and doesn't leave a claggy feeling in the mouth that some hard fats can.

I have never quite perfected a carrot cake but I do enjoy a well made one. Finally a lemon cake is always quickly eaten.

There is something so satisfying about making a cake, it is relatively quick and the results whilst the cake is still warm can be fantastic.

A toast to the sandwich maker

 After the last post story about a landline phone, more nostalgia now.

A sandwich toaster. Whoever though of buttering the outside of two slices of bread putting a filling inside and heating it up? But they must have had corned beef in mind.

We had a hankering for toasted corned beef sandwiches - with a bit of mayonnaise in the mix. A quick easy meal but oh so tasty. Plenty of mixed vegetables too surely means that it is a well balanced meal. Protein, vegetables, carbohydrates, fibre it must be approved by any decent dietician.

Phoney

 Does anyone else think that quality of almost everything is getting worse? It doesn't seem to matter whether it is a top price item in a product range or a budget buy, they all seem to go wrong . Perhaps it is because some products are getting more complicated.

We had a landline phone (anyone remember those?) which would display the number of the caller. Very handy when we were receiving silent calls. Not the most expensive nor the cheapest but a middle price by a well known manufacturer.

The first one didn't work at all but the second one did. For eight months before that too packed up.

So we had a bit of a day out to take the phone back and this time get a refund rather than a replacement.

Because of the limescale in the water in this area we don't buy an expensive iron or kettle. Those are definitely not worth paying too much for. Whilst not wanting to be part of the throwaway society some things have a limited shelf life.

Nice weather

 On holiday for a week and the weather is pretty good.

Saw the Red Arrows, always a fantastic sight.

Sand see serf

 1. The council are basically employees that we pay for and should do the job that we require them to do. 

2. So after all the stupidity of lockdowns and the effects on children, why are the children not the number one priority for council spending?

The play areas in Clevedon are in desperate need of an overhaul and upgrading. The sand pit is running out of sand, the swings are not swinging as they are missing and the roundabouts are not turning.

Yet this idiotic council think it is appropriate to spend hundred of thousands of pounds on a cycle track. There is already a pupose built cycle track, it is called a road.

May the fifth be with you

 This is a Star Wars free zone.

Does anyone else check their own blood pressure?

As much as I despise smart phones (surely the very worst invention ever) there is one program on it that works extremely well and is very useful. It is called BP Journal it is a free program but I thought that it was so good that I paid for the full version. I do not have any affiliation with the programmer but I do recommend that you have a look at it.

Boot onions into touch

My broken foot is healing well, so no more boot but it will still take two to three months to mend fully.

A mistake in eating a hidden ingredient meant that I suffered stomach pains. The offensive ingredient was onion powder. Second only to garlic powder as one to avoid.

Ah well.

Spring is hurrying on the daffodils were over quickly and there is plenty of blossom on the fruit trees.