Cherries
These little cakes are ideal for a children’s party or for a formal afternoon tea.
Ingredients
1 cup (4oz) sieved self raising (cake) flour
2oz butter
1/4 cup (2oz) castor (fine grained) sugar
1 large egg
2 rounded tps cocoa powder
1 tbs warm water
Topping
Halved glacé (candied) cherries
1 cup (4oz) icing (confectioners) sugar
1 tbs lemon, rum or other flavouring
cold water
Polling Station in England
Well, it’s nearly the moment of truth. Tomorrow, Thursday, the polls will open at 7am and we will be able to vote to decide on the future government of the country.
I admit, I’m in the minority and do not want the Tories to get into power. I don’t trust them to look after the interests of ordinary people. I don’t feel that David Cameron is genuinely interested in us. I think he’s ‘Blair Lite’, just not as convincing as Tony Blair at getting people to like and trust him. I certainly don’t think that George Osbourne would make a good Chancellor of the Exchequer. Considering that the Tories have kept Osbourne under wraps for most of the election campaign, it seems they don’t think he’s an electoral asset – I agree with them. Read the rest of this entry »
Nick Clegg, LibDem Leader
In just nine days, here in Britain we will be going to the polls to vote for a new government.
As General Elections go, this one has been fairly boring apart from the introduction of leaders’ debates. Because we’re a parliamentary democracy and we vote for individual Members of Parliament to represent our district not the Prime Minister, debates between leaders of the main parties has always been resisted.
Although the Best Man is often seen as the joker who has to make an amusing speech at the wedding, his responsibilities are far more onerous than that. Here’s a list of the things he usually has to do.
It’s not a surprise that Britain is finally going to the polls to vote for a new Government. Commentators have been saying for several days that today, Tuesday, April 6th, British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown would announce the election.
They were right because Brown went to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament so an election can be called. This is a largely ceremonial act but still, it is the first public move in the process.
The meeting took place at 10am today and then Gordon Brown went straight back to Downing Street. His Cabinet assembled outside Number Ten and then he came out and formally announced the election will take place on Thursday, May 6th.
Immediately, the BBC cancelled its BBC1 programmes to show a politics special about the election talking to all the usual suspects who said all the usual things. When they couldn’t find anybody else to interview, the BBC political correspondents interviewed each other which seems particularly pointless as they didn’t have anything new to say either.
Oh joy! We have four weeks of campaigning to live through and then we’ve got to choose. It might just come down to the party who annoys us least in that time.
Seriously, though, it is a big decision because of the times we live in. We mustn’t let the media coverage or the political spin from the different parties to put us off voting. People fought and died to give us the right to choose our own government.
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Bride and groom cutting the wedding cake
If things go wrong at the wedding reception (wedding party), you might think that people will make allowances or soon forget. Don’t believe it! They will talk about it for years.
Make sure your wedding reception is a roaring success by consulting this checklist. Don’t forget to add any points to it that are particular to your own reception. Read the rest of this entry »
Chocolate Easter Eggs
Making your own chocolate Easter eggs is not difficult, just a bit fiddly.
First of all you need to buy half egg shaped moulds. The easiest to use are the plastic ones because there is some ‘give’ in them, so making it easier to turn out the half eggs. The only problem with plastic moulds is that they can tear. Metal mould are stronger but turning out the set chocolate is more difficult.
Ingredients
1 cup (4oz) self raising flour
4oz butter
1/2 cup (4oz) fine ground (castor) sugar
2 tbs cocoa
2 eggs
Topping
6oz semi-sweet (plain) chocolate
1 tbs castor sugar
4 tbs light (single) cream
Many parents are horrified when their children pick up head lice. Find out more about them.
What are head lice?
They are re tiny, wingless, parasitic insects that live on the scalp and suck blood, causing severe itching. The good news is that head lice can not hurt your child but they are a nuisance and cause the child irritation.
How can I detect head lice?
Scratching is often the first sign of infestation. If your child is at school you will get a letter informing you if there are head lice at school. If you do get a letter about lice, you should act on it immediately by checking your child’s hair. If your child scratches a lot, especially around the back of the head or the ears, check for lice immediately.
Lice aren’t easy to see: the bugs take on the color of the hair they’re hiding in. In fact, you may never see a louse. It’s common to discover an infestation of head lice based on lice eggs (nits) alone. Nits are also tiny – about the size of sesame seeds – and creamy off-white or pearly white in color.
Head lice do not jump, fly, or swim. They spread by direct contact, ‘walking’ from one hair or head to another. They happen in the best circles, and an infestation does not mean that you or your child has dirty hair, in fact some people say that head lice prefer clean heads.
How do children get lice?
Most children get lice from classmates or a friend or from shared clothes, such as a hat and sharing the same hair brush or even working together over a book, or example, with heads touching.
How do I get rid of lice?
You can buy over the counter shampoos from your chemist or drugstore. To ensure your child remains free of lice and nits, you must remove ALL the nits with a nit comb and follow up with a second shampoo treatment seven to ten days after the first.
Because lice travel easily from one head to another, getting rid of lice and nits right away prevents them from spreading to other family members, allows your child to go back to school quickly, and put your family routine back on track. If your child does have lice you should not send him/her to school until they are fully cleared.
Don’t forget the nits
You have to get rid of the nits, too. Each remaining nit will hatch into a new generation of lice, making it crucial to break that maddening cycle.
After applying the lice shampoo wash with normal shampoo then rinse.
Apply conditioner and leave in the hair, this will help the nits slide off the hair. Use a normal comb to get any knots out of the hair. Then use a steel tooth comb (nit comb) and comb the child’s hair until all the nits are out. Continue to check your child’s hair daily and reapply the shampoo 7-10 days later. This is important even if your child has no nits.
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The origin of wearing a wedding ring started centuries ago when the Greeks believed that the third finger of the left hand was significant because it had the ‘vein of love’ which they believed went straight to the heart from the finger.