Great performers in one of my favourite venues The Olde Young Tea House.
Stunning music with the power to transport the people in the room away from any cares at least for a little while. Hope these vids give you a taste of the atmosphere and make you want to come to the next gig William K.J. Anderson + Bob Fischer on June 3rd.
The talented Teesside Treats also took some great photos from the night.
Today was the first Bar and Books. Really happy with how it went and excited that it happened.
Had the idea for a while and loved the book swap at the Durham Book Festival.
20-something people turned up with hundreds of books. yay!
People swapped books for free and if they wanted additional books they paid £1 per book to go to charity. A lovely baker from the Vintage Fair, taking place next door, also dropped off some cupcakes to be sold for charity.
The first Bar and Books raised £13.80.
In the sign in book people were asked to name charities for any money raised to go to. Here’s the list:
Huge thanks to Blu bar in Middlesbrough for having us. They were also kind enough to let us store the leftover books for the next Bar and Books event!
Questions for consideration for next time include whether there should be an admission charge / suggested donation to aid in marketing and make sure there’s money to go to the charities people nominate and also how to distribute to the charities.
Just saw Morrissey at Middlesbrough Town Hall last night.
Had a great day yesterday with a visit to mima, Capaldis, the Southfield, the Hairy Lemon (which would be referenced by Morrissey later in the evening post a small powercut – “The Hairy Lemon was sucking all the juice out of Middlesbrough – disgusting!”) and at the Town Hall with an unofficial after-party at Medicine Bar.
The lovely friends I went with decided to get me a birthday present of one of the summer tour posters (Morrissey with the cat on his head) and a set of badges. Yay :o)
Links to some vids and photos on The Northern Line
Below, song that amused me with its Morrissey impression when I was younger:
Marble Cake, originally uploaded by Whistling in the Dark.
Recipe for my mom’s marble cake in Hebrew so translation below. Made this for the borotweetup on Friday.
Ingredients
7 eggs separated
1 ½ cups of sugar
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
¾ cup orange juice
1/6 cup oil
1 tbsp vanilla sugar
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2 tbsp cocoa powder
2 tsp instant coffee
1 tbsp vanilla sugar
1. Beat the egg whites until stiff, add sugar, add yolks at medium speed
2. then add flour, baking powder, juice and oil
3. grease up a rectangular pan with oil (I use a large rectangular glass pyrex dish)
4. pour in 3/4 of the mixture
5. to the remaining 1/4 of the mixture in the bowl add the cocoa, coffee and vanilla sugar mix well
6. then add into the mixture already in the dish, use a fork to make the marble swirls.
7. Preheat the oven to 350/190. Bake for 40-45 minutes until a toothpick or fork can be inserted into the middle and come out clean.
Tips:
My mom listed vanilla sugar twice when writing out the recipe, once in the first mixture and then again in the chocolate mixture. I have made it with it in both, in just one and without.
If you don’t leave enough batter in the bowl the chocolate becomes denser/heavier and may sink to the bottom so you have a layer of chocolate at the bottom.
If you’re baking powder is not fresh you may end up with a flatter cake.
It’s an easy cake to make and it will taste good no matter what you do to it.
The batter is yummy too if you end up with some left in the bowl * innocent whistle *
The addition to the borotweetup cake was chocolate buttercream frosting and m+ms.
The chocolate buttercream frosting recipe I use is from cooks.com.
Ingredients
If you wait until the cake cools to put the frosting on it comes out very much like frosting you buy in a store. If you are impatient like me, baking a cake at midnight, and not wanting to put the frosting in the fridge until morning….the frosting will melt over the cake and make a nice chocolate layer not quite like what you expected but tasting delicious nonetheless.
My name is Yaffa Phillips. I enjoy reading, live music gigs, gadgets and photography. I am from Brooklyn, Tel Aviv and now Teesside. Here is where I occasionally write things. Thank you for visiting. On Twitter I am @yaffa
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