Be-Ro caramel shortbread recipe

I've had a few requests for the Be-ro caramel shortbread recipe, so here it is above. Enjoy! It's delicious.

Final Flaming Nora

I've gone into cyber-hibernation.

In the meantime, my other blog is much more fun.

A good read or two

Books I've enjoyed very much lately include Louise Wener's autobiography Different for Girls. Charting the life and times of the lead singer of indie band Sleeper, Louise Wener is now a cracking novellist and I highly recommend her books.

Also very much enjoyed The Glass Room by Patrick Mawer.  An exquisite read.

Coronation Street Weekly Update, February 7 2011

I've been writing Coronation Street weekly updates since 1995 and this week's Coronation Street update has just gone live here.

This week the update dares Tracy Barlow to pick a fight with t'other barmaid.

Top telly

Outside it's cold and dark. Inside it's warm and there's a soothing light flickering from the corner of the living room and it's all good.

There's a stash of great telly on the box right now and I can't quite remember when I've enjoyed so much good TV on at the same time. And so, in no particular order, here's what I'm very much enjoying to get me through those cold winter nights.

Mad Men, Six Feet Under, Hawaii 5-0, Boadwalk Empire, Nurse Jackie, Coronation Street, Not Going Out, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. And Mad Dogs looks like it's going to be worth watching when it starts later this week.

But when there's nowt on I like to watch, it's time to get The Sopranos box set out for a second viewing. Because it's worth it.

How much would you bend over for?

On a dawdle at lunchtime, I found 2p on the ground. So I stopped and picked it up and it's now in my purse. Is that mean? To stop and pick up 2p? 

Anyway, it's got me wondering how much money it is acceptable to stop and bend over and pick up off the ground if you spot it lying there, unwanted, fallen out of someone's pocket?