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Never Fail Cake. ( Recipe by A. Whybrow) amended by Chris Garnons-Williams

Ingredients to boil for 25 minutes:-

• 3 mugs fruit (mixed) - I tend to use the Villier and Bosch Large Mugs, dried mixed fruit, chopped dates, chopped apricots, chopped prunes; with bought mixed peel and glace cherries added after the 3 mugs of the mixed fruit of the previous ones in this list
• 1 mug sugar - I tend to use Dark Molasses in one third and two thirds light molasses
• 1.5 mugs water
• 4 oz margarine or butter - I tend to use unsalted butter

Remaining instructions:-

• Whisk 4 large eggs and a pinch of salt in a mixing bowl, then
• When boiled mixture is cool mix
  • the contents of that mixing bowl into it before
  • mixing 1 teaspoon of Bicarbonate of Soda to 2 mugs of sifted Self-Raising (S.R.) flour in that empty mixing bowl. Then fold that mixture over the cooled mixture in the boiled mixture pan, until the flour has been completely mixed in.
• Spoon into a greased and lined cake tin (7-8 in. square or round)
• You can leave it to rise for 30 minutes before baking in the oven to increase its lightness once cooked,
  or
  not!
• Bake at 160c or 325 - 350F or Mark 3.5-4 (fan 140c) for approx. 1.5 hours for 1 lb loaf tins or 1 hour 50 minutes for an 8 inch lined circular cake tin. The cake should rise at least 50% in size.
• Remove from oven having tested for it being fully cooked with a skewer, empty out of tin onto a mesh tray and leave to cool.

Unfortunately humans do not seem to be able to keep their hands off it, so its shelf life is limited.

You can use 2pcs-Baking Silicone Bread and Loaf Rectangle Bakeware Non-Stick Loaf Pan instead of re-lining cake tins each time. Then after cooking the cake and it has cooled down, you can remove it from the silcone loaf pan quite easily without it sticking to it.

Chris Garnons-Williams is the Sole Trader of Ivydene Horticultural Services.

Email is a more certain method of communication at any time rather than mobile phone; since the mobile is normally switched off.
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Delicate flower with

• too close a proximity to those of a female persuasion like a female dentist (even though I was only looking at one hair which had strayed from her coiffure during the time she was working on my teeth and nothing else) caused my warfarin levels to go haywire for 2 months
• restricted comfortable air temperature of room between 18 and 20 degrees Centigrade,
• noise level in the cinema or theatre is too high and
• dancing / squash / gliding is not available - motorbicycle accident left one third of my brain detached from my skull and this stops me going gliding as well when the glider enters an air pocket and it drops.
• exciting life I lead isn't it?

Ivydene Horticultural Services
1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages
Moor Street
Rainham
Medway
Kent. ME8 8QE

There are no materials stored at the above address and no clients are seen at the above address.

Today is 29 October 2020.

Nearly 100,000 people are catching coronavirus every day in England, a major analysis suggests:-

• Number of people infected has more than doubled since the last round, with one in every 78 people now testing positive.
• Three times as many people aged 55-64 are infected, compared with the previous month's study, and twice as many over 65s.
• Overall, the number of people infected is doubling every 9 days.
• There are 96,000 people catching the virus every day.

I live in Medway and I am 72 with heart, lungs, a brain tumour and water retention (if I lie flat on my back to sleep, I could drown in my own phlegm) problems - see below.

I sometimes use the public bus to go into town -

• when sat down in the bus, I have seen a young man get on with a mask and once he sat down, he took it off.
• I have seen pupils from school get on as a group and all sit together behind me filling the rest of the single decker bus - some without any face covering. This is despite the fact that notices on the window determine where you should sit - noboby on the aisle seat and there must be a spare row of seats between you and the next person sitting down in front or behind you. This means that a single decker bus that used to take 47 people is now restricted to 8. Many people ignore this.
• When in town, I have been into shops where adults come in wearing a face mask covering their mouths and chin but not their nose, together with children and adults coming in with no face mask.
• When going into shops, many provide sanitising solution for the trolley/basket and hands. Both of these I use. Many others do not.

It is good to know that few children under 18 years old have died from Coronavirus - but 651 children were hospitalised with coronavirus in the UK. They can catch the disease, then go and see their grand parents for Christmas and pass it on to them without them realising that that is what they are doing. Especially since they can be in a group of 6 at school, a different group on the way and return from school, and a different one at home. They get the virus and then pass it on, so that the older the adults that they come into contact with; the more likely those adults will then die of the virus.

240 people in Medway have contracted coronavirus in the last 7 days. Medway has a death rate of 65.5 per 100,000 people living in the area. In 2019 Medway had a population of 280,894.
This is cheap way to get rid of the retired population by using the children to infect them; thus saving the government from paying the Old Age Pension for a long time and saving the NHS for the cost of medicine used to treat the illnesses suffered by those same OAPs.

Perhaps I should only get my shopping by it being delivered; and not use public transport or go to the shops, to hopefully live through this 2020-2021 winter, and do this for the rest of my life!!!

People have contracted the virus, recovered and a few months later got it again. Will a vaccine be any better or is the virus like the common cold, which we can get regularly and therefore you will in the end have to forget about being retired for all that long; before the lack of care by the youngsters will pass it on to you and kill you as you live onwards from 55?

Medway has currently more than 1,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Up to 29 October 2020

182 people in Medway

have died due to coronavirus.
Are the children in this town bringing the virus to those who died because they and some adults could not be bothered to keep

• 2 metres apart,
• obey instructions on public transport,
• wear face coverings over the mouth and nose, and
• sanitise themselves?

Until everyone in the UK has been vaccinated and it then is shown to work, there should be no mixing between people living in one house or flat and others outside. Food etc should be ordered on line or by telephone, delivered to the door and a member of the group photoed by the delivery person as proof of delivery. That would be the only way to stop the spread of this virus.

On the 14 November 2020; I collected some dry-cleaning from the dry-cleaners in Rainham, Kent, due to my wife being unable to carry it home by walking due to its weight. Having been open for 4 hours, I was his third customer and he admits that during the lockdown that he only has 3 customers a day. Although the rent may have been deferred, it still has to be paid, plus all the other bills. He will review the situation on the 2 December 2020 when this lockdown is meant to finish. His customers do not go to work wearing suits, etc as they work from home. His business will probably fold in December as will many others on the high street as people work on-line and shop-online (you can get the super-market to deliver your shopping order).
On Monday 16 November 2020 it was reported that 2 schools had been forced to close in Kent due to coronavirus. Children going to and from school congregate together on buses and at school; if their parents take them to school they congregate together. The children do not bother with face masks. I very rarely see any children with face masks in super-markets - "Figure 3: 17- to 24-year-olds have higher positivity rates in both the higher and lower rate regions. Estimated percentage testing positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) on nose and throat swabs, daily, by age and region, between 25 September and 08 October 2020, England.
Age 70+ is under 0.5% DAILY - Age 12-16 is 1.5% DAILY, Age 17-24 is over 4.75% DAILY. These statistics refer to infections reported in the community, by which we mean private households. These figures exclude infections reported in hospitals, care homes and/or other institutional settings."
So, at this rate all the children will get it before Christmas and then pass it on to parents and therefore at Christmas, either the parents or their children will also pass it on to their relatives. Therefore any contact with these infected children will tend to infect the older population after December 20th 2020.
The vaccine may not be available until spring 2021 and it is unlikely that the UK population can all be vaccinated before the autumn of 2021.
Meanwhile most of the UK population over the age of 65 will heve been wiped out because the children do not take the virus seriously (remember the blitz and gas-masks - in those days the population took it seriously and put on their gas-masks). Some people are now speaking against having vacccinations - the goverment will be overjoyed since during your working life you will be paying for Old-Age-Pension but you will be dead before you can collect it.
Not content with the coronavirus from China, we now have a different one from mink in Sweden/Norway/Denmark region to contend with.
I wonder if I will survive until I get a vaccine that works; and that is why I cannot use my free Bus Pass on buses, because of the lack of care by the younger generation, as shown above. We now get our super-market shopping delivered. You can see from the medication I am receiving for the illnesses that I am currently suffering from (as you can see below), that it would be foolish of me to go to places where the public congregate. Becoming a prisoner in own home, I will be alarmed at how many more people are going to get this virus and even when they do not die from it, they will become incapacitated in some way during the next 12 months with this segregation method devised by the UK government - interesting that the system set up by Australia has currently led to almost no new cases there.
 

Due to under-work and ill-health in March 2013, management have decided to retire:-
On 17 March 2013, I attended Medway Hospital whilst coughing up blood from my lungs. Tests were carried out and I left the following day with medication for:-

• a) atrial fibrillation (Irregular Heart Rhythm),
• b) impaired left ventricular function (The left ventricle is the thickest of the heart’s chambers and is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood to tissues all over the body. By contrast, the right ventricle solely pumps blood to the lungs),
• c) lower respiratory tract infection (Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are any infection of the sinuses, throat, airways or lungs. Lower respiratory tract infections – which affect the airways and lungs) to add to
• d) prolactin-secreting macroadenoma of the pituary (These pituitary tumors (also called adenomas) secrete excessive amounts of prolactin. Prolactin is the hormone that stimulates milk production by the breasts.) diagnosed in April 2001.

On 7 January 2016, my doctor stated that I also had Type 2 Diabetes (Diabetes is a lifelong condition that causes a person's blood sugar level to become too high. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body doesn't produce enough insulin to function properly, or the body’s cells don't react to insulin. This means that glucose stays in the blood and isn't used as fuel for energy. Diabetes is also responsible for most cases of kidney failure and lower limb amputation (other than accidents).)

On 12 March 2020, my eye doctor stated that I had Glaucoma in both eyes, since the Field Test indicated a lack of peripheral vision, so now both eyes need the drops. Looking on the bright side, I have slowed down the rate of collecting imperfections in my body system.

As you can see from the above that I am "in the pink of health" and not yet "pushing up the daisies".
Although unable to physically work for a lengthy period,
my mental facilities are still at my command to assist at problems:-

• having my 27,000 Raw Camera Images and potential of 15,000 digitised slides from Ron and Christine Foord to create photo galleries with plant descriptions under the raw camera image. Then adding thumbnails of them to the respective Comparison Pages of the 6 colours per month in the relevant plant type photo gallery - after amending the index pages in those galleries to add plant use, soil, soil moisture and sun aspect to each plant. I am starting with the Alliums and Anemones from the Allium and Anemone Gallery, amending their index on Index Page A of the Bulb Plant Gallery and further comparing them in Bulb Shape Gallery in March 2020.
• like the multiplicity of problems with the trees in the pavements in Funchal, where I have explained how these trees grow, what to do to save them, how to reduce climate change / flooding and improve the mental health of the native as well as the visiting population at the same time.
• the errors at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley, so that other gardens open to the public do not make the same mistakes.
• create a ringbinder booklet of permanent planting and the other pages on bedding, so that that garden - accessible by the public - can inform the public how the gardeners designed the planting plan and the pupils in the schools/ horticutural colleges can then attend that garden in a practical sense to learn from it and the different ways of changing the planting each year to give a different effect, so that perhaps they can start to do that to their own gardens instead of accepting the bog standard of lawn surrounded by 18 inch (45 cm) borders with no more that 15 different types of plant mostly put there by the builder or the owner getting the plants from the supermarket or garden centre at Easter.
• even if you live in a flat in a skyscraper, you can still have a garden in your home - see Garden Style .
• there are thousands of comparison pages in this website - 1 of which should provide you with some help with interacting with the natural plant world even if it is only growing your own herbs on your kitchen internal window ledge.
• I can also teach you piggle-wigging. The full effect can be felt during an accident, but my training with you and I am fully cognisant that Health and Safety Regulation 15(t) subsection 12.a para 14 clause (A.a) means that I can tell you but cannot allow you to carry out the practical - otherwise I could lose my current non-existing teaching licence as bestowed on me by the University in Holland for Double-Dutch.

Heath Pearlwort

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