Let Them Have Cake!

Love is the exploding cigar we will willingly smoke - Lynda Barry

Welcome to the Weekend 🎈

We had a nice lie-in.

Dropped of son at his boxing lesson.

We enjoyed a much needed Boost with coffee↓ 

We got the bedroom tidied up.

I had to sort out my baking hand↓

Once the cake went in the oven.

The washing machine went on.

Then it was time to play with Henry..

Tumble drier back on.

Light lunch time↓

Now to make more facemasks↓

Whiskey and Ginger Cake.

I got the shopping list from my neighbour.

It was still raining, and the wind got up!

Now to do the shopping for the week.

Once we did the shopping in Lidl.

We popped into Home Bargains for some Spring Onions for my neighbour.

The rain was lashing down and a dash of heavy winds!

Gets back home in the rain.

Dropped off my neighbour's shopping...

Put our shopping away.

Quick read of the newspaper

 Eddie Cochran  was an American rock and roll musician. Cochran's songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody", and "Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire in the mid-1950s and early 1960s.He would have been 82 years old 🎈

He died aged 21 years old in 1960.

Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans) is an American rock 'n roll singer and dancer. He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles including the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B hit "The Twist" and the Pony with hit "Pony Time". In September 2008, "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958, an honor it maintained for an August 2013 update of the list. He also popularized the "Limbo Rock" and its trademark limbo dance, as well as various dance styles such as The Fly. He is 79 years old 🎈

Lindsey  Buckingham  is an American singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the music group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 and 1997 to 2018. In addition to his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has released six solo albums and three live albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2011, Buckingham was ranked 100th in Rolling Stone's 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Buckingham is known for his fingerpicking guitar style.He is 71 years old 🎈 

Now to enjoy a late evening meal...

Catch up with this week's newspapers..

Caught up with last night's telly programmes.

 &

The Big Hits of 1990.

 Compilation of the best performances from 1990 in the Top of the Pops studio, including Adamski featuring Seal, Sinead O'Connor, Primal Scream, En Vogue and Snap!.

I am looking forward to watching Top Of The Pops from 1990.

Here are some songs from that year I am looking forward to hearing again:

I really hope this rain stops...

I need to get back on the walking! 

 

 

 

  

Leaving The Cake Out In The Rain

"I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing," - Johnny Carson

Welcome to my Saturday🥮

I have the cake being judged later...

Sleepless night doing lots of tossing and turning...

 Hug and brew first.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

Out in Sexy Beast↓

 The view from Car Park 7↑

 The view of the church.

We get the balloons,

Go off to enjoy coffee while they are blown up↓

 Back to Sexy Beast↓

I got another Lloyd Loom basket to put all my fabric in↓

Quick peek in the newspaper↓

   With coffee↓

 The cake is ready to be dropped off↓

 Has a late lunch↓

 Catch up on some programmes we taped↓

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Nervous about the judging of my cake↓

Off to the  Redditch LGBTQ Support Services BBQ and to see how my cake has gone on in the LGBTQ Bake Off↓

While the judges added up their marks.

Suddenly started to rain...

I'm not leaving cake out in the rain.

We hurry the cakes indoors ready to hear how everyone got on.

The moon cake came first.

Whoo hoo I came second \o/

All the cakes were then cut up and sold to help with the Pride Event in Redditch next year.

(Over £100 was raised \o/)

I swapped my second place prize of a bottle of white wine for some lovely Avon products.

(As I have been tea-total for 7 years)

We all had a great chat.

I was so proud of finishing second...

 Then off to do our food shopping↓

 Pity I don't drink↑

 I got one already↑

Gets back,

Gives my neighbour his shopping.

Unpacks ours.

Nice beefburgers in a bun for tea.

I put my Certificate next to our wedding photo in the hall↓

I was asked to make some black facemasks for a dear friend.

The only black material I had featured red dots on...

Off to Dunelm tomorrow, as younger son wants some black facemasks for school.

More of NYPD Blue↓

With some sleep tea↓

 Off for some walking tomorrow to walk off the cake I ate!