Chocolate cake

Here's a recipe you all love.... Today we were asked to make a cake of our own, choosing from either lemon or chocolate. You never guess what I chose.... Chocolate. If I wanted, I could've had lemon, but I decided not to have that. And just after I've been to the loo and resolved my constipation pain, I've munched the lot of it (and I know I'm meant to wait a while). If you want to make the fantastic sandwich cake yourself, follow up this recipe:

You will need:
Scales (make sure they're on 0)
2oz butter (or margerine, whatever you prefer to call it)
2oz brown caster sugar
2oz flour
a bowl (I know I may be thick for including the bowl in the you need list but just incase you forget)
Wooden spoon, silver teaspoon, fork
Egg
cake tin
coca powder
Milk
and if required.... Help!

Method
1. start by greasing the cake tin with a hand towel and some butter

2. Put your bowl on the scales (with nothing in) and start putting in your 2oz of butter

3. Follow up with your 2oz caster sugar and flour

4. Mix it well (and watch for lumps)

5. Put in a small ounce full of coca powder into your bowl, mix in again.

6. Add your egg and mix in again with wooden spoon (you will see it turn chocolatey)

7. Keep mixing, make sure there are no lumps, butter, flour or sugar that can be seen

8. Add in your milk and mix again. You are now left with chocolate goo.

9. After mixing, you are ready to put the ingredients into your cake tin

10. Flatten it all down. If lumps are seen, then never mind. It's too late, the damage is done.

11. Put it in the oven for 20-40 minutes (gas mark 6) and leave to cook

12. Take out of the oven and remove the cake from your cake tin. It will be a round circle to start with. If there is greaseproof paper on the bottom, remove the greaseproof paper.

13. Leave on the cooling tray for 15 minutes.

14. Start making the chocolate icing

15. Once chocolate icing is made, (or while you're making it), get a knife and cut in half.

16. Put the chocolate icing on your chosen half of the cake.

17. Put your other half (the half without icing) on the top

18. Cut it in 6 or 4 pieces (enough for 6-4 people)

19. Put in a bag, fridge, or just leave on the cooling tray until ready to eat.

20. Eat or share.... It's up to you, but you have one delicious chocolate cake!

May I point out the worst bit is washing everything up!

Phil sports the biggest gadget ever!

Had it not been for a mate who told Phillip Schofield he could buy and deliver him the world's biggest gigantic Apple ipad, he probably wouldn't have gotten it. But, despite the shape of his birthday cake on the first of last month made by Janet Tunstill, he thought he may as well be seen with a one BIGGER than that, just come out, you can tell Phil is less than impressed at the gadget, as it makes twittering on it hard for him. As he said on his review on his official site, he thinks the apple ipad doesn't have an important place in his life!

Was on holiday, came back.....

And found 15 e-mails. Some of them obvious, like more twitter followers to follow back and idiots to ban from the Phil fan community, but at the same time, the other response I was waiting for from Bebo came. It said: before you join or sign in, delete the cookies off your computer first. Thinking Bebo might be helping a bit on that scale, I deleted the cookies by pressing the little logo on the top left-hand corner of the address bar. Then I tried signing in. Trouble is, wouldn't let me. So even though the cookies may of been coming back, I signed in again. I clicked to my profile, I pressed when it said 'click to edit'. And I couldn't believe it..... It was back to normal! So the first and probably last company who has applied with useful detail has been Bebo! I'm so happy I can update normally again

Computer spirals out of control....

Something rather unusual, yesterday, had happened with my computer (I did mention Firefox kept on crashing). But I contacted Bebo back about the status update saying the problem was still persisting. I am awaiting a response back. Thinking it was going to work with the other browser, I launched Internet Explorer, typed in the address and tried from there. It still didn't work, so I closed the whole browser and went back to Firefox. Only as I did so 20 odd windows unexpectedly popped up of Internet Explorer and the whole thing went out of control! What's worse, they wouldn't let me close them... At the finish, I had to shut down, start it back up again, right as rain. The only point is, I will have to use add or remove programmes in control panel to unstall Microsoft Internet Explorer, because if it's making the whole computer spiral out of control, it's not worth being on as a spare browser!

Spam comes flooding in (again)

Since March this year, my Yahoo account has been re-opened because I was requested by Charlotte Hendy (@charliehendy) to join one of her Hollyoaks fan groups on Piczo. Well for that, you needed a yahoo e-mail address, so no sooner had I terminated it and I had to re-open it again. Now I'm receiving over 5 e-mails each week, including unearthed activity newsletters from blip.fm. I might have to cancel my account with them and rejoin. But no sooner have I re-opened my account, and everything in spam I got before: Business proposals, business transactions, mystery money and more business proposals with titles like Dear Friend and Hello have started to come flooding in again as fast as you can say 'Here's Jonny!'. But I can't terminate the account because of one of Charlotte's groups I've joined, so what I will have to do is find a way to turn spam-guard off. Heaven knows how I'll do that!

Bebo problem

Now if it weren't for twitter, ITV, Yahoo and T-mobile, I've now discovered that the 3rd social network I've joined, Bebo, will not let me update my status. I haven't a clue what's causing it, and it's only happened today. Now I did say I'm going to stop complaining because companies deliver nothing but rubbish, but hopefully with Bebo, I'll get somewhere about the status update. The ones I've contacted so far: Yahoo about the spam, ITV about the adverts and twitter about the follower count and the users blocking me business, haven't done any help. Plus that think back to when I phoned T-Mobile last June. The customer services lass on the other end wanted nothing but a conversation with me, so that did no help either. Those 4 companies can shove it up the backsides - but if Bebo reply with some help, it'll make my day!

Katy Cavanagh dances off!

Well girls week proved a disastrious skate-off (and result) as only 8 remained in the contest and as Jennie McAlpine, Nadine Coyle, Gemma Bissix, Katy Cavanagh, Tana Flowers, Melanie Sykes, Faye Sawyer and Jully Black nervously but surely took to the ice with their partners, the skate-off result didn't prove obvious. Jennie, Gemma, Tana, Melanie and Jully were told to sit down - which told you for a start which girls were going to survive. The result came though, eventually. Who should end up the last person safe but Brandon Flowers's secret heartthrob and co-host, Jully. So it ended up Katy and Nadine were left skating for survival. Come decision time, the result was made clear who went: all 5 judges saved Nadine, thanks to a groovy performance, while Katy skates back to the cobbles!