I’ve always wondered: at what point in time does ’second hand’ become ‘vintage’? All the clothes that were referred to as second hand when I was child suddenly had a PR moment and became ‘vintage’. Even weirder, some brand new clothes are now also being tagged as vintage too. Eh? Truth be told though it really doesn’t matter, because while this week’s Friday Pretty is along the theme of Vintage Male Beauty™, the overarching all-encompassing reaction we’re looking for is ‘Phwoooooaaar’. Such as. Enough talk, let’s perv en masse.
The one, the only, the intensely hot Paul Newman:
The word you're casting about for is 'Cor'
Coconut Cupcake Crazy!
Last weekend saw the last Bank Holiday Weekend of the year till Christmastime. Allow that to sink in, won’t you? That’s it, basically. Unless you have some allocated holiday time still unused, all you traditionally employed people are looking at about 14 weeks of non-stop work, save the occasional cheeky duvet day most of us score sometime mid-October. Depressing, innit?
Well never fear, for I have just the ticket to get you out of the dumps! On Saturday, jealous of all the baking activity going on in my Twitter feed, I put out a call for a recipe for coconut cupcakes. In my recent house move, I have become one of those people who browses homeware stores, looking for crap to buy. Last week, I bought silicone cupcake moulds, and my destiny was clear. Thankfully, my friend A responded to my recipe-call in typical awesome fashion. Below is her amazing(ly hilarious) recipe for amazing coconut cupcakes, copied out pretty much verbatim from her email to me. I’ve not put in an ingredients list, but simply bolded up what you need and quantities. I’ve never baked this well in my life. Seriously, I promise you’ll lick the screen when you see the photos.
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