Looking back over the Years
Old Covers of The National Geographic Magazine.
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Honor Blackman dies.
Honor was born in Plaistow, East London, in 1925 to a civil service statistician dad.
Her parents gave her acting lessons for her 15th birthday and she then began training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1940.
During the Second World War, she became a motorcycle dispatch rider for the Home Office.
She landed her first role on the stage seven years later in play The Blind Goddess at the Apollo Theatre.
After a series of minor roles, Honor landed herself a job as Cathy Gale in The Avengers, where she became a household name as John Steed’s first female partner.
The role helped propel her to stardom and she was cast opposite Sean Connery in Goldfinger in 1964 – taking Judo for both feisty female roles.
At 38, Honor was one of the oldest actresses to play a Bond girl – five years older than Connery at the time.
She also starred in the ITV comedy series The Upper Hand, which ran from 1990 to 1996, as a glamorous grandmother with a taste for toyboys.
As well as acting, Honor enjoyed a singing career – recording a hit version of song Kinky Boots with her Avengers co-star Patrick Macnee, which referred to the boots she wore in the show.
She also recorded a full album of tracks after her appearance in Goldfinger.
Honor married twice – the first time in 1948 to Bill Sankey in a marriage lasting eight years.
In 1961, she wed British actor Maurice Kaufmann and the pair adopted two children together.
They split in 1975 and Honor later revealed she preferred staying single.
Tributes have since flooded in for the star from co-stars and celebs.
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Northern Star! wow so many Australians went on her and the Southern Cross.
Oronsay! Travelled on her in 1966!
gee these photos bring back memories.
http://www.pandosnco.co.uk/ten_pound_poms.html
ss Oronsay - scrapped 1975
ss Oriana - sold 1986 and scrapped 2004, after sinking alongside in Dalian, China
Came back in 1966 on this Oriana, we came via Cape Town that year.
Oronsay! Travelled on her in 1966!
gee these photos bring back memories.
http://www.pandosnco.co.uk/ten_pound_poms.html
ss Oronsay - scrapped 1975
ss Oriana - sold 1986 and scrapped 2004, after sinking alongside in Dalian, China
Came back in 1966 on this Oriana, we came via Cape Town that year.
Today 8th April in 1879 some useless information, milk was first sold on this day in that year in glass bottles!
Other 'celebrity sightings' at the event during the mid-20th century included TV comedian Milton Berle, screen star Bette Davis and surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, who first visited New York in 1934. Dean Martin (left) and Jerry Lewis (right) attracted much attention in the Easter parade on Fifth Avenue when they appeared in 'new' Easter outfits that hark back to the old days in 1948.
Up to a couple of years ago I always use to make an Easter Cake and cup cakes for the family.
This is not a photo of one of them, but it looks somewhat similar.
Made out of the simple buttercake recipe we all use over the years just a basic cake, not a cake mix.
160g self raising flour or Sponge Flour.
2 extra large eggs gently beaten.
160g of either butter or Marg I use Nuttlex as I cannot have butter I use the Lite Nuttlex [softened]
Half a cup of milk, I use chilled Rice Milk.
165g Castor Sugar
Teaspoon of vanilla essence
some put a pinch of salt I don't.
Of course the sugar and the flour need to be sifted once or twice makes a lighter cake I think.
I line an 8 inch cake tin with a loose bottom.
I also have a cake needle or metal skewer handy to test the cake to see if it is cooked through.
I don't use an electric mixer either, although I have them!
I use elbow grease and a wooden spoon.
If I want a white sponge I will use three whites of eggs and use the yokes for cup cakes.
Once you have mixed up the mixture and put it in the oven, which we all know what to do so I won't bother you with those details!
Let the cake cool, then Ice it, my icing I use a table spoon of Nuttlex and sieved icing sugar the soft icing sugar. Of course boiled water to soften the margarine, usually a tablespoon.
The other is for Royal Icing.
Sometimes I tint the white icing with a green colour to make a little grass!
Then when the cake is covered with the colour of icing you want put your tiny easter eggs on, slivered almonds, baby chicks, which I usually manage to get from either the cake decorating shop, Coles, Woolies or even the newsagents!
I use to decorate the cup cakes in a similar way too.
Now too fiddly I have just made one large cake for Easter and it won't have any chicks on it, just some plain old slivered almonds.
https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2015/05/29/4244841.htm The Pastie!
Copper Coast bakers have long suspected the humble pastry provided more than just a meal in the treacherous conditions of the region's early mining industry.
The pastry has been a staple in bakeries throughout South Australia thanks to the Cornish migrants who flocked to the Copper Triangle in the 19th century to work in the nascent copper industry.
Moonta baker Nick Price explained the pastry came in handy when early miners, colloquially known as "Cousin Jacks", needed a hearty
meal which could adapt to conditions underground.
"The miners went down underground and because it was very dangerous down there with arsenic and all sorts of things, they'd hang on the crust, eat what they could eat and then they'd Throw the crust away," Nick told Sarah Tomlinson on 639 ABC North and West.
"That would also keep the rats down because it would kill the rats with all the arsenic."
I remember as a child in Cornwall my parents one summer went down to Cornwall and we visited a Lighthouse, the story of the pastie was much the same for Light House keepers too.
