1 tub (900ml) Carte Dor or other Vanilla Ice Cream.
1 pack (150gish) dutch shortbread buscuits (M&S do these), broken.
2-3 slices of Chocolate Cake or Brownies chopped into bitesize chunks.
100g Dark chocolate, chopped.
15-20 fresh strawberries.
For the Sauce
200g plain or milk chocolate
10g butter
100g icing sugar
120ml single cream
2tbs golden syrup
To Make the Sauce: Melt the chocolate with the butter (you can do this in the mircowave) until there are no lumps. Remember to stir this while heating.
Once melted, leave to cool for 5 minutes and then swirl in the cream. If mixture curdles- add more cream. Sift in the icing sugar and stir.
When ready to use- put this mixture into a pan and add the syrup. Heat this and stir until the sauce is pourable and add to the sundae (below).
Sundae: Put the ingredients into large wine glasses or sundae bowls, varying different layers in. Fill to the top.
Pour the warm sauce over the top and spinkle afew biscuit crumbs on top. Serve warm
Enjoy these retro sweet treats!! Source: Pinterest. Recipe: BBC foods
Dear able-bodied people, this is the summary what it’s like to be in a wheelchair and I hope you never find yourself in that situation. But,if you do, be prepared to be the ‘inspiration’ to your friends, even strangers just for doing silly things like; taking a train ride without a ‘caregiver’. Of course you’ll face discrimination but of course ableism too and the list below is just a small insight:
1) When you take your wheelchair for repair, you won’t see it again for 300 years.
2) people immediately use singsong tone of voice when they see a person using wheels.
3) You always have to act grateful for help you didn’t need.
4) A shop isn’t accessible if it’s got a tiny step at the front.
5) People pat your head and bend down to you.
6) Don’t leave your chair in the sun, you’ll burn your bum when you get back in.
7) You will be confronted with the miracle in the alcohol meme and so called friends will find hilarious.
8) You always get the view of people’s behinds.
9) doorways being too small.
10) Ableism and inspirational porn.
At my mentors book signing
On this day my best friend gave me a typewriter; was the day I became a writer
The rest of thee photos show me in my wheelchair in New York City on a visit in 2014
I hope you all enjoyed this post and have learnt something from it. It is so easy to fall into these habits, people in wheelchairs are just people who want to get on with the day, not to necessarily be your inspiration or make you feel good about yourself if someone in a wheelchair is asking for help and doing it for praise or major props with friends and family. You don’t help someone because you feel sorry for them You do it just because you saw another person struggling to get through the day and needs a hand to make it better
You don’t get an instant helo around your head. Be aware of ableism, it can be very patronising and eeven border on bullying help us in the disabled community stamp it out by not doing the things on the above list.
Many thanks,
A Wheelchair user, who is also an author and has Chronic fatigue syndrome but she still remains to be bad ass with her humor and has a wardrobe bursting with vintage clothes… My friends think she has a shopping problem not just the vintage clothes for her on dying love for reading and needing a box to writing my friends think she has a shopping problem not just the vintage clothes for her undying love for reading and and need to buy notebooks to wwrite her short sttories in
By the way, my debut novel, carefree and consequence is available to buy on my blog for which will take you Amazon. The reviews speak for themselves. Available in paperback, hardback large print and, kindle. You don’t actually need a Kindle device to read this book you can just download it from your App Store. Or aask in your local library to order you a copy.
My second project is completing a list of writing prompts and putting them together in an anthology for sale. There are so many genres I can showcase then with this book. You can see my romantic side, you can see my funny side, you can see my spooky side, you can see mmy thriller side and you can see my serious side too. It will be a mixture of poetry and prose and trying to finish it by March 7 2021.
For now, go buy my book and see how you like my romantic side and love for the 1950s
This is fast becoming a staple outfit in my wardrobe. The mini petticoat gives the modern tule skirt a vintage twist. The shoes are ballerina flats with a lace detail and the cardigan just tops off the outfit with its rose detail, tying in with the pink skirt. Full fringes are great for vintage looks.
If you want you could team with a pearl necklace and earrings to take it from casual to evening.
Silks of red and burnt orange hang in between windows like a staged sunset. Hindi floats in the air as they converse the daily struggles. Their hands are worn and so are their eyes. Even as they beat their washing against uneven stones that stands at banks of rivers the long travelled dust settles on their clothes like snow flakes in the July heat. The maitrachs backs are bent and their movements synchronised Bollywood dancing in scilence with only the hindi and the river’s slaps against the banks to accompany them. Girls’s innocence are covered in white cloths. This is their future ubless something changes. Inspired The King and I
I think this may be book 2: 365 writing prompts turned into completed compositions/poetry gathered into anthology.. ‘When it’s Me with a pen and paper versus ME and Persistent pain’. One small piece of writing a day approximately 500 words per page, with the actual prompt written for you at the top of the page (so you know what’s going on.) It’s a prompt book with all different genres.. you’ll get to see my spooky side, my thriller side and my funny side!! Obviously, the book will also give i#nformation on what ME is, some helpful tips and tricks and some organisations that can help.
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Right now I don’t have to worry about complicated scenes just yet. I just need to get over promoting my first book and getting my arthritis under control. My next big drama will be probably out by the end of next year. But I’m going to focus on this funny little project first. Do you think it’s a good idea? I’ve given myself the deadline of March 2020… Prompt or two a day; will bring you short compositions (like the ones I post on my blog from A-level) Your way.
Also please don’t forget to click on my carefree and consequence page where you can read reviews and click the links it will take you to buy you a copy on Amazon whether that be paperback, hardback large print, or kindle. Every ounce of support helps and you also gain recognition for what they worked hard for over the years and for not giving up
I love retold fairytales, stories about India, autobiographies, anything set in the 1940s, and I love psychological thrillers. Here is a few of my favourites for you to peruse… enjoy my lovelies!
You’ll be so proud of me as I’m a hoarder I managed to take some books that were taking up space in my room to the charity.
