Hi everyone, hope you all had a good weekend. We had a hunkering down sort of weekend doing little odd jobs, sometimes forgotten and some lovely blustery walks.
We had the predicted storms at the weekend, only a week late, but the winds managed to blow some ridge tiles from our neighbours roof onto our sons van and all over the drive, luckily no-one was hurt, and the damage to the van not too bad.
Well here we are again, the 5th November and bonfire night, I shall be watching over Cardiff as the fireworks light up the night sky in bursts of colour with rapid bangs and whizzes, coats, hats and scarves, toffee apples, parking and hot soup, I love bonfire night, even if the animals don't, although our cat seems not to mind. Obviously we have had the run up and will have the run down from the actual night, and I can be found standing at my bedroom window just watching all the wonderful explosions of colour over quite a period. As a child, I recall the day after bonfire night, going round the garden trying to find the treasures of childrens still seem to find it exciting to find spent fireworks. spent fireworks, a wonderful time, we even got provided with a bucket by my father, now I wonder if he had an ulterior motive, but Thank you Guido Fawkes for trying to blow up parliament and instead of succeeding giving us all a wonderful time in November.
I saw a wonderful tip for a gluten, dairy and sugar free alternative to whipped cream, it's extremely simple, 1 tin of previously chilled coconut cream, whipped, add the seeds of a vanilla pod and a sprinkle of cinnamon to taste and serve. I have used coconut cream to make rice pudding before and it works, and I know that you can create an instant ice cream with double cream and frozen fruit whizzed together, so the same should be true for coconut cream. What a wonderful alternative, my husband will love this, not that his diet precludes gluten, dairy or sugar, but he does like coconut cream it was his idea to use coconut milk in rice pudding, with cardamom of course.
Thank you for joining me once again, have a lovely day wherever in the world you are.
Siwzy
English Folk Verse (c.1870)
The Fifth of November
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England's overthrow.
But, by God's providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James's sake!
If you won't give me one,
I'll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!
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