Sofa so good

Sofa so good I have a new sofa , it's squishy , squashy and strokeable. At the moment it's ranking up there in the top ten of home comforts.

I realise we've only spent a short time together but I am in love. I'm never going to leave you and I can sense that you are never going to leave me either .With your malted chocolate waffle weave looks you have me.

You are British your tag says so but I have no need of labels. Last time I bought a sofa I was trapped in a Swedish store , I ended up in Narnia I was bewitched by the White Queen and so it began. 

I purchased two leather sofas , tea lights , a billy bookcase and some weird ginger biscuits . At first it was heaven then it was hell , the old sofa was all fur coat and no knickers. Then the cats ninja styled you it was like Edward scissor hands blinded by an angry squirrel.

I put up with this hell for seven years till one day I flipped after the umpteenth time of pulling a hissing Rollie off the sofa . I think he was staging some sort of cats for justice demonstration ...

I leafed through a catalogue and there you were ... 

And now you're mine please don't deceive me or ....

Through The Keyhole

Through the keyhole I go ...

No Lemons abound ...

Just a winding staircase up 

and shall I go down ?

Mysterious are to be had ...

Perhaps dinner in the Great Hall?

Up and up I go ...

And now I'm up I think I've found my soul...

Where Do My Hotter Shoes Take Me?

Where do my Hotter shoes take me ?

They have me on adventures through magical woods and to the top of castles with comfort in every step I take.

I storm the battlements to lay seige to the castle and there is an awful lot of steps ....

But I know that they can get me to the top without me having to pause or stop .

Walking on air I could go on forever..

I cannot stress the ease of comfort of hotter shoes and I'm tempted by their boots.

I admit I have a weakness for their Mary Jane design. But I need to stretch myself and let my bank balance be tickled by their other exquisite designs.

I can't cope with a heel really I think it's an allergic reaction to the 1980s that I've never really got over.

So the stepped up heel was just right for me.

Now I've got my shoe style right I've just got to work on my socks appeal !

Do you judge a book by its cover ?

Do you judge a book by its cover this is going to sound very Yoda like.

The other day I ended up at a Fast food restaurant  power cut in my area.

I went to go to toilet only to be met by a giggle of teen age girls.

I wasn't judging .... yet ...

They were judging me.

"Hasn't she got a flabby a**e "

Instead of being mortified  I said " How rude and told them they should learn some manners"

I didn't judge them but all I'll say.


Treat others as you want to be treated.

So how do you deal with rude situations ?

Eggless Apple Crumble Cake

Startled look.

I have a cooking teen.

I don't know what happened or how.

May be it was those sessions with those cake kits , you know the ones with a slightly disturbing Thomas The Tank Engine leering at you.

We've had Swiss roll, seasame seed and cheese bread and this week a sausage and tomato casserole.

I've got to up my game haven't I and I have  take that teen so I present to you.

Apple Crumble Cake

Its egg less mainly as I didn't have any eggs and I have a school holiday to pay for.

Its one of those use what you have to hand days and you know what those are the best days of our lives you have to agree don't you.

Ingredients

2 cups of raising flour

2 teaspoons of baking powder

1 teaspoon of cinnamon

100g of butter

1 cup of Light Brown Whitworths Sugar

I wheat type biscuit

Two table spoons of  milk or water

2 cooking Apples


Method

Preheat the oven to around 180c

Grease a spring cake tin

Put two cups of self raising flour into a mixing bowl

Mix with 200g of butter or low fat spread if you prefer

Peel and slice the apple.

Crumble up a wheat breakfast biscuit mix it with a little light brown sugar and sprinkle onto the base of the cake tin.

Place the cake tin in the oven for 10 minutes.

Then spoon in the cake mixture , add another layer of sliced apple and return to the oven for about an hour and 10 minutes this can vary depending on your type of oven .

Serve with custard , cream or ice cream or just eat on its own.

Disclosure I received a hamper of sugars in order to develop some recipes and will receive a fee for doing so.