Sticky toffee pudding is the cream of the crop as it's voted our favourite dessert... beating chocolate eclairs and apple crumble to the top spot 

Almost half the sweet-toothed adults asked to pick their top pudding voted for the dish. In second place was the chocolate eclair, followed by the apple crumble in third.

Fully-vaccinated model who had BOTH of her legs amputated while on life support with Covid-19 is 'happy to be alive' as she leaves hospital after two months - just in time to celebrate her 21st birthday 

Claire Bridges from St. Petersburg, Florida was fully vaccinated when she tested positive for COVID-19 in early January. She was born with a congenital heart condition and was soon hospitalized, requiring life support. She suffered liver damage, kidney failure, and muscle deterioration called rhabdomyolysis, which led to doctors amputating her legs. It was a month before Bridges could sit up again, and two months before she was able to go home. She has remained positive, and her father said she was happy to be alive. On Saturday, she celebrated her 21st birthday at home with friends and family, smiling in a wheelchair with her legs still bandaged.

[what an amazing young woman god bless her]

PICTURED: All six teenage girls who died instantly when semitrailer slammed into their sedan while they took a left turn on highway a country music singer Blake Shelton - from the same town - pays tribute

All six girls who were tragically killed when a truck collided with their car at an Oklahoma intersection near Tishomingo have been named by friends and family. Above from left to right: Gracie Machado, Addison Gratz, Madison Robertson, Memory Wilson, Brooklyn Triplett, and Austin Holt were named by their loved ones on social media. The truck driver was identified on Wednesday as Valendon Burton, 51, a rock hauler and doting grandfather whose semi hit their car as it was apparently attempting to turn across his lane and onto U.S. Highway 377 near Tishomingo. The six high school students were packed into a small, 2015 Chevy Spark with just four seats - and only the two teenaged girls riding in the front seat were wearing seatbelts, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Wednesday. The six girls were all students of Tishomingo Public School, according to the district's superintendent. The driver was 16 years old, three of the other girls were 15 and the other two passengers were both 17. 

So very sad.  Such young lives lost.

Covid-19

Just had a conversation with Mary who comes and helps me in the house;   she caught Covid-19 on 14th March; 

The last time I was in contact with her was two days prior to that and we spoke to the GP and he suggested to have another test to make sure, it came back negative.

We have just spoken to Mary, we wanted to know how she was as so many people in WA have gone into hosital.

Mary is 36 with five children;  she said she was in bed for a few days and now she is feeling weak and tired and her two elder children are the same, I think the eldest is 16 and then 14 the second eldest.

Her three  younger children also caught the virus and it affected them like a cold, nothing more and we could hear in the background their normal noise like kiddies normally do.   So it is not affecting the younger children.

Her mother also had this covid virus and is now getting over it and she is in her 60s.

The children aged under 11 seem to just have a cold and running around.

My cousin in the UK has had it and is in his 70s and is not well, his wife also has had it and last I heard she is in hospital with a heart attack, have not heard from them for two weeks which is unusual.

So this virus is affecting everyone differently and what seems to be happening is if you are overweight you have a problem.

Had an computer expert come into the house during the week, after the stoke I have had some issues being able to do things my memory had forgotten about a lot of it was editing our photos.

In the conversation I asked about the age of our computer and the memory of it.

She said it is fine  [about 8 years old now] but hubby had some large software put in a couple of years after and according to the expert I still have a lot of capacity in it.

One thing that she said was I don't know why people are able to send such huge files, a lot of servers refuse to let them go through, I think our server is one of them.   Also a lot of people complain about their computer because they are not looking after it correctly, like cleaning out old files, not to mention cleaning up old emails!  So many are left there that are not needed and things start to go wrong.

She has be going over to Outlook down from the other saft wear so I hope I can plod along ok without having to buy new software and computer.

Did by any chance,  watched SBS tonight the interview with Gorbachiv?

SBS Australia - Meeting Gorbachev | Sunday 8:30pm on SBS | Facebook

Victory for NATO impossible: Gorbachev (sbs.com.au)

if so what did you think of the interview and politics during that period please?

Cannot help admire this Lady!

 Ursula Von Der Leyen

Ursula Von Der Leyen President Of EU - Bing News

Ursula Von Der Leyen - Bing images

Josep Borrell (right), the EU's chief diplomat, echoed the message, telling reporters the visit was a signal that 'Ukraine is in control of its territory

We have a date for the Australian Federal Election!                   27th May.

Australians will head to the polls on May 21 to elect Scott Morrison or Anthony Albanese as Prime Minister for the next three years. The Prime Minister fired the starter's gun on the federal election campaign after a 20-minute meeting with the Governor-General on Sunday morning.  He has opted for the latest possible election date to give him extra time to recover his large eight-point poll deficit.

Yummy!

In a post to Facebook, an Australian home chef has shared their 'easy' recipe for a delicious fruit cake that uses only milk, dried fruit and self raising flour, and is baked in a slow cooker.

How Seniors around the world spent their Easter.

Germany

Heaven help us here in Australia!

What I have seen about the election this last week is an embarrassment. 

I would expect better from Year 12 Students!

This goes for Labor and Liberals!

Don't think either of them are worth voting for.

For those people that cannot go to a Polling Station and want to avoid Covid-19 try and get a postal vote below.

I see it has been made much harder to obtain this election thanks to the PM.

Apply for a postal vote - Australian Electoral Commission (aec.gov.au)

Man, 77, who believed he'd been abandoned after being shipped to Australia as an 'orphan' where he was beaten and abused discovers his dad tried to rescue him - as he reunites with his late father's family 

Dorian Thomas Reece, 77, (pictured L-R) was placed in a Birmingham orphanage as a baby after his unwed mother was forced to give him up and as an eight-year-old boy was sent to live in Western Australia. Appearing on Long Lost Family in the UK, Dorian wept as he found that his father (pictured inset) had not only been paying for his upkeep, but wanted to reunite with both him and his mother before his death.