The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

greenbee

You'll have to share the recipe first Mar. And provide samples... 

pollyanna_26

What cakes are they Mar?Name of recipie. One of us mifgt be able to help. Can;t have you missing out on your cakes.

I heard earlier there had been an attempted Ram Raid on my lovely little Coop shop.

They were hoping to get the cash machine inside,

Thankfully they were unble to smash through the security shutters to get inside.

The lovely staff don;t deserve the utter damage and chaos if they had got in so I'm so glad it failed.

Cold here again tonight so I/m hoping tomorrow will be better. It has been sunny but the cold triggers flares. Hopefully things will improve soon now we're heading towrds April.

Forgot there were biscuits too so if you can post what type that would help.

pollyx

pollyanna_26

Nothing at all I would watch on TV night. So I switched over to the other Channel for the regional news and just caught a tribute to the late Gerry Marsden that took me back to my youth .Wasn't a Beatles fan though I liked the songs John Lennon wrote.

We did go to Liverpool to see Gerry and Pacemakers and other groups we liked.

Gerry was lovely no airs and graces;

Just watched those times and at the end the Mersey Ferry renamed after Gerry died ploughing its way back and forth crossing the Mersey and I remembered again sitting at my desk high in the Liver Building hating the job my mum had urged me to take in the then Civil Service. "It's  a job for life" she said and I knew it wasn't the one for my life,

I would gaze out of the window at tte Ferries crossing the river unttil I told my mum there was somrthing I wanted something I'd set my heart on.

Things were pretty unpleasnt at home for a while but I didn't regret handing in my notice for a career I loved  through decades.

Hope everyone is ok. Bit quiet on the Fence so hope you're all taking advantage of sunny days and not getting the freezing nights we are. Seems we're paying the price for the daytime sunshine.

pollyx

pollyanna_26

greenbee said:

You'll have to share the recipe first Mar. And provide samples... 

Just noticed your post.Check out Mar hasn't revisited the Poison Gardens at Alnwick for old times sake recently before you sample anything.

pollyx

MingVase

Will dig out the recipe and post it. ty xx

MingVase

Here's the recipe:

4oz butter

2oz sugar

4oz flour

yolk of one egg

tbs milk

It makes fabulous gorgeous cakes but breaks up very easily.

pollyanna_26

What type of flour is it Mar? Do you have a link to the reiipe and method?

pollyx

annieb64

I worked for the civil service in the Liver Building for about a year in the 1970s pollyanna. I commuted from Manchester. Lovely view across the river but it was so cold. Papers would blow off the desks even if the windows were shut.

There were workmen doing some kind of renovations . Staircases would suddenly be closed off and we'd have to take another route up to the office. Then there were the power cuts. I carried a torch in my bag. I was very glad to get a transfer to an office nearer home.

MingVase

pollyanna_26 said:

What type of flour is it Mar? Do you have a link to the reiipe and method?

pollyx

No link, it's from a Victorian baking book. Usual method, cream butter & sugar first. I think I should juggle with  the ratio of flour to fats but not sure how.

pollyanna_26

I was early 60s Annie. I'd either get the train from Seaforth and Litherland was living near Ford Cemetary than sadly the area went downhill suddenly and we left then my mum did.

So I'd either get the train to the old Moorfild s station or the bus in to town and walk down Dale Street saying good morning to Minerva as Helen Forrester did years earlier.Usually said hello to the Liver Birds too.

That building was freezing I've sometimes if it triggered both Rheumatoid and Osteo Arthritis.

 There wasn't any layering back then so I;d be in a cotton blouse, cardigan and skirt, The smog days were a nightmare whether walking from the bus terminus or the station I'd be soaked from head to foot and fithy when got in to work..

Routes to the office often changed. I was a TO dealing with a London district Harold Wilsons Govt. That kept me amused but like you will have I took the oath of secrecy when accepting the job. Could have written a bestseller though.

I didn't have a heavy work load just made descisions that someone else typed up.

If it hadn't been for the ferries I think I'd have lost my mind . Just watched them back and forth.

I was so glad to reach the end of my notice period and escape It was well paid and would have been a job for life as my mum had said but it wasn't for me and the day I left it felt I'd been let out of prison. Never been in prison but it didn't seem somewhere I'd want to be.

My commute felt long but you had a longer one. There was a married couple who used to wurk for the Min of AG in Wrexham. It took me a while to work out the Min of Ag they had strong accents and talked very fast so I'd be trying to figure out what they'd been chatting to me about.They'd taken me under there wings when I started work there

I was surry to bid goodbye to them . When I left they were still commuting from Wrexham and came across them a few years ago at a Political Rally on the beach here. They were retired by then but I met so many people from different times in my past back to the 60s. We danced on the beach as the sun went down  with a lovely red sunset.

Only a few years ago and we're in different times now . I'm in touch with them all and if I'm feeling down I remember that day and I'm lucky to still see those sunsets although I choose when to go out carefully now. I just need to look out of the window at sunset.

It's lovely to hear from a fellow suffferer of the cold windy building. I was heartbroken when the 3 graces lost their World Heritage Status.

pollyx