🥁 Capitols & Carla Thomas…

4 Records £50 including post

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Records can be purchased individually for the prices shown plus shipping as detailed below

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Postage is £10 (1-3 records). Text 0044 (0) 7788 215744 or email deesu@hotmail.co.uk to reserve or for more information.

Records arrived today, fabulous item and great service. Thanks JL 20 July 2024

Guide to record gradings Here

Coffee Time Quiz (4)…

Quiz No’4

Here is this week’s quiz. 1 point for each correct answer and answers below:

1. What is the most expensive property on the original UK monopoly board?

2. What is the name of The Mayfair hotel with the same name as savoury biscuit?

3. What is the chemical symbol for Carbon Monoxide?

4. Where would you most expect to find Creole cuisine? USA, Mexico, India?

5. When is St Stephen’s Day?

6. How do Vipers kill their prey? Squeeze to death, Poison, Suffocate

7. Stucco is a coating found on: Cookware, Nails or Walls

8. Who said “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time” ?

9. Where is Horatio Nelson buried?

10. How tall is Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square?  52 metres, 102 metres, 152 metres

Answers…

1. What is the most expensive property on the original UK monopoly board?

Answer: Mayfair £400

2. What is the name of The Mayfair hotel with the same name as savoury biscuit

Answer: The Ritz

3. What is the chemical symbol for Carbon Monoxide

Answer: CO – a highly poisonous, odourless gas made up of 1 carbon atom and 1 oxygen atom

4. Where would you most expect to find Creole cuisine? USA, Mexico, India

Answer: Louisiana USA  Creole cooking originates from Louisiana

5. When is St Stephen’s Day?

Answer: December 26th most often referred to as Boxing Day in the UK

6. How do Vipers kill their prey? Squeeze to death, Poison, Suffocate

Answer: Poison with venom stored in their upper jaws Their fangs spear the prey and jaws can open to 180 degrees

7. Stucco is a coating found on Cookware, Nails or Walls

Answer: Walls, traditionally made from lime, sand and water. Nowadays made using portland cement

8. Who said “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time” ?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln – a great site for famous quotes is https://www.brainyquote.com/

9. Where is Nelson buried?

Answer: St Paul’s Cathedral 9th January 1806 It was over a year after his death hit by a sniper in the battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805. His body is reputed to have been preserved in spirits of rum or brandy.

10. How tall is Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square?  52 metres, 102 metres, 152 metres

Answer: 52 meters or to be exact 169 feet 3 inches equivalent to 51.59 metres

Book Club…

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Ian Fleming – The Man With A Golden Typewriter

Delia Owens – Where The Crawdads Sing

📖 Where The Crawdads Sing…

What Are You Reading?

I’ve just finished reading Where The Crawdads Sing and what a treat. It lived up to the reviews and I couldn’t put it down. Looking forward to Harlen Coben’s Caught this week.

Crawdads came from a recommendation in the book club. Please get in touch if you have a good read to share. CLICK HERE

Top 3 – All Time Favourites in BOOK CLUB

  • Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  • The Little Friend – Donna Tartt
  • Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption – Stephen King

New on Netflix is Where The Crawdads Sing.

Did you know?

The 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption is based on the novella by Stephen King – Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption .

Stephen King

📖 Casino Royale by Ian Fleming…

First edition – worth around £10,000

The first of The James Bond novels – Casino Royale was published in 1953 and the literary franchise as it is often referred to is one of the most successful the mid 20th century.

The protagonist codenamed 007 with a license to kill fetches up in exotic locations, fighting off ruthless villains and bedding beautiful women.

Only 4,750 copies were printed and one lucky woman found a copy in a car boot sale for £1. She went on to auction the book for more than £10,000. The woman said she had no idea of the value of the book and only bought it because of the love hearts design on the cover.

Ian Fleming (1908 to 1964)

A heavy smoker and drinker, Ian Fleming died of heart disease aged just 56 in 1964.

Although he didn’t do well academically at Eton, he excelled at athletics and edited a school magazine. His lifestyle led to conflict with his housemaster, E. V. Slater, who disapproved of Fleming’s attitude, his hair oil, his ownership of a car and his relations with women. He left Eton early to go to Sandhurst Royal Military College. He spent less than a year there, leaving in 1927 without gaining a commission, after contracting gonorrhea.

The Man With The Golden Typewriter

📖 The Man With The Golden Typewriter…

Did you know?

Ian Fleming bought this typewriter after finishing the first Bond novel. He wrote a letter to his wife saying he hoped it would ‘write golden words, as it was made of gold’. As we all know, that came to pass and Fleming made pots of gold with the James Bond adventure stories.

The Golden typewriter was sold in London in 1990 for £55,750 ($86,750). Today that would be equivalent to around £100,00 ($137,000).

He went on to write Goldfinger, The Man With The Golden Gun and lived in a house in Jamaica called Goldeneye.

Can you name the first Bond novel?

Answer HERE or at the bottom of this page.

For more information about Fleming, this book by his son is a good read, or listen on Audible.

The first Bond novel was Casino Royale published in 1953.

🥘 Carole’s sausage tray bake…

🥘  1 pot  🍽 Serves 4   🛒 10 ingredients ⏱ 60 minutes £8

This is a favourite in our house. The children love it and any leftovers are great the next day.

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 large onions, sliced lengthways into wedges
  • 2 red peppers deseeded and diced
  • 2 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh thyme leaves
  • 500g baby new potatoes, halved
  • 8 mushrooms
  • 12 sausages, pricked with a fork
  • 200ml white wine, or stock
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper

Step by step:

  1. Preheat the oven to 220C / 200C Fan / Gas 7.
  2. Put everything in a large bowl and turn the ingredients until they are fully coated in the oil. Alternatively, pop all the ingredients in a large plastic freezer bag and squish it around until everything is coated in the oil.
  3. Tip everything into a large roasting tin, spreading the ingredients out into one even layer and ensuring that the sausages aren’t covered by any of the vegetables. Season well with salt and pepper. Roast for about 30–35 minutes until golden-brown.
  4. Remove from the oven, turn the sausages over and toss the vegetables in the cooking juices. Pour in the wine and return to the oven for a further 20 minutes or until browned and the sausages are cooked and the potatoes tender.
  5. Serve hot with a dollop of mustard on the side.