Thanks Dorph for bringing this to our attention. Missy is eager to get her first cd and blast the neighborhood with it. I think that she has wowed the world and put a new tilt to it. I was thinking about how as technology has advanced and the look of the performer has become as important as their talent, or even more so, the performers of times past came to mind. There was Frank Fontaine as Crazy Guggenheim on the Jackie Gleason Show and Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle on the Andy Griffith Show. These guys played on their looks and surprised us with their talent. There are more out there that do not fit today's "standards" I am sure and I do not bring this up to diminish the talent that Miss Boyle possesses, I think she is great. I just wonder what we all miss due to presupposition and judging people without looking or listening.

DH and I liked Bletchley and "Bomb Girls". Any day now we are going to start speaking Received English from overexposure to Masterpiece Theater. We are watching "Mr. Selfridge" and "Call the Midwiife" and about to begin "Father Brown". "Breathless" was also just promoted on our PBS station. Oh, and we just finished Season 6 of "Doc Martin". Ta-ta! Time to sound the gong an hour before dinner is served. (I'll be changing into my robe and slippers.)

Cheeky is quite a nice word. It's almost always used by an adult to a child. If it's said in an angry tone, it means impertinent. For example, Stewed Eel purveyor above might well have said "You cheeky little bugger!" (Actually, in the forties, he wouldn't have said that to a girl, but he would to a boy, probably accompanied with a clip round the ear!) But if it's said in an affectionate tone (particularly to a small child) it means cute and endearing. Indulgent grandmother to small grandchild "Oh, aren't you a cheeky boy!" There is also the noun "cheek" - "The cheek of him, saying that to me !" Particularly rude or blatant "cheek" is usually "bare-faced cheek" !

A good lamington is my fave! I have baked hundreds in my time :-) Often they are sold in bakeries split through the middle and filled with red jam (usually raspberry) and whipped cream, or just the whipped cream but I prefer mine plain. Pink lamingtons are made by dipping the sponge in raspberry jelly (US jello) that has been made with a little less water and allowed to get to the thickening up stage of setting before rolling in the coconut.