It’s a website I just found while trawling around (I love a bit of a Friday morning internet wander).
The blog post I was reading though isn’t about cakes that have gone wrong… it’s crammed full of cakes based on the 1980s… take a look here:
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2011/06/sunday-sweets-back-to-80s.html
I bet you never thought you’d see a ‘Back To The Future’ cake featuring a Delorean with gull wing doors that actually open… especially not one 8 feet long!!!
If, like me, you were/area big fan of retro children’s television programmes… and Camberwick Green in particular… take a look at this – http://youtu.be/d27hPy38EyI It’s Windy Miller getting drunk on scrumpy! And no… I know what you’re thinking… it’s not a spoof… this was a real episode! Can you imagine it happening these days? Me…
Memories of Camberwick Green: “Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside. Can you guess what is in it today?” Bring back any memories? Windy Miller & Friends… on Camberwick Green It’s the start of Camberwick Green… one of my favourite television…
I received an email today from Pauline, a lovely customer who found www.AQuarterOf.co.uk yonks ago and who who uses our retro sweets in her recipes. Take a look at Pauline’s Magical Sherbet Lemon Cake… it looks absolutely stunning. And if, like me, you’re addicted to Angry Birds… elsewhere on Pauline’s blog you can see a…
Retro Sweets For Mothers Day Stuck for a gift for your Mum this Sunday? Why not treat her to her favourite fab retro sweets? What makes our retro sweets such a great idea as a Mothers Day Gift? Here’s our top 5 reasons: 1. She will love the retro sweets themselves. Top Tip: Choose some…
Super Special Offer For All Lions Sweets First it was Lions Sports Mixture, now it’s the whole blooming Lions sweets range on special offer… but only until this Thursday. Enjoy Lions sweets at our lowest prices ever…while you can!
I love this time of the year… everything is coming to life, it’s getting a bit warmer… and the days are getting longer. And to celebrate, we’ve picked out one of our most popular sweets and we’ve put it on special offer… cutting the price to ribbons. The lucky sweet this time is Lions Sports…
Did you have a Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the 1980s? We badgered and badgered until we got one… claiming that we’d do all sorts of useful things on it like learning those new fangled things called spreadsheets and how to program. And instead we played games on it all day! Well fab news… the Sinclair…
Remember when Saturday afternoon television was wall-to-wall sport? The BBC had Grandstand with Frank Bough (the darling of BBC sport and then Breakfast Television, until it all went pear-shaped). And ITV had World Of Sport (remember those little planes that used to fly around in the opening credits trailing a “World Of Sport” banner from…
What flavours would you choose for flavour changing ’3 course chewing gum’? Remember the flavour changing chewing gum that Willy Wonka created? The one that that had different tastes as you ate it? It went from tomato soup… to roast beef and baked potato… and then to blueberry pie and ice cream. Well there’s a…