An Easter Basket!

30/04/2011

Well Easter has been and gone....not one of my favourite celebrations ...im not a huge fan of buying chocolate at 3x the price you would normally pay if you just bought a bar so this year decided to have a go at making them myself.
Got prepared weeks before, bought the mold and bars of chocolate and put loads of effort in i made with 3 different layers of chocolate milk,white and dark and tied in a ribbon so was quite pleased, I gave them out to friends which but was unaware that John had a strange family tradition that to crack the egg so it could be eaten he smashes it on his 89 year granddads head, well big mistake because this egg was about an inch thick so it was like hitting granddad with a brick, was a bit of a surprise for him, poor guy it nearly knocked him out !!!!

Watched the Royal Wedding yesterday, loved every minute...Kate looked great and so did her foxy bridesmaid,her sister i think. Harry could of made an effort and cut his hair.Posh and Becks looked great as did Tara Palmer Tomkinson

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The rise of Mancake, part 2: Stuart from BB8 launches YSL Touche Eclat For Men

Stuart from BB8 has been posing topless today to try and encourage men to purchase the newest product from YSL, their very own concealer! They says it's the first ever created for men,and it follows in the wake of the success of Guyliner.He's a good front man for it (well him or Pete Wentz) as he's not ashamed of using makeup to conceal imperfections.

Elisabeth Sladen Dies

'It was a joy to know her': Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies leads the tributes to Sarah Jane star Elisabeth Sladen

Tributes have been pouring in for Doctor Who actress Elisabeth Sladen who died yesterday following a battle with cancer aged 63.

Leading them was former Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies, who brought her back to Doctor Who, and said it was 'an honour to have worked with her'.

Speaking this morning, he said: 'It's devastating, it's no age at all is it? All of us who worked on Doctor Who and Sarah Jane are just reeling at the moment.

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Cult TV star: Actress Elisabeth Sladen died on Tuesday morning following a battle with cancer

'It's so sad. It was a joy to know the woman and an honour to have worked with her, I loved her.'

Liverpool-born Sladen played the Doctor's assistant Sarah Jane Smith, first alongside Jon Pertwee in 1973, and stayed on with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor, until 1976.

She returned as the character for a spin-off series K9 and Company in 1981 and Davies, 47, brought Sladen back into the Doctor Who fold in 2006 when she starred in an episode alongside the then Doctor, David Tennant.

Davies told BBC News: 'When I worked on Doctor Who I thought there was this big secret that was the talent of Lis Sladen and I wanted to put her back on screen because I knew in all my heart, and what every Doctor Who fan knew, there was this great great woman and a great actor that was sitting there not working.

'I loved her': Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies payed tribute to Sladen and said it was 'a joy' to know her

'She then turned out to be such good company and cheeky and so much fun and of course, utterly unchanged by time, she was such a beautiful woman.

'And we found ourselves with a new friend, that was the greatest treat about it. We brought her in for one episode, thinking, "that'll be good, that's a good story", and then as we shot that episode I remember thinking "I'm not letting her go".

'The universe was lucky to have Sarah Jane Smith; the world was lucky to have Lis.'

Tom Baker also paid tribute to Sladen and took to his blog on his official website to share his thoughts about the actress who starred alongside him.

Back to the Tardis: Davies revised Sladen's role as Sarah Jane for an episode in 2006 with David Tennant and her faithful robot companion K9

Current doctor: Sladen was joined by Matt Smith for The Sarah Jane Adventures

He wrote: 'Sarah Jane dead? No, impossible! Impossible. Only last week I agreed to do six new audio adventures with her for Big Finish Productions.

She can't be dead. But she is, she died yesterday morning. Cancer. I had no idea she was ill; she was so private, never wanted any fuss, and now, gone. A terrible blow to her friends and a shattering blow for all those fans of the programme whose lives were touched every Saturday evening by her lovely heroic character, Sarah-Jane Smith.

'Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. Lis laughed at my silly antics; yes, she did, she laughed me to success. We both came from Liverpool, that small detail helped. We both loved old movies.

Spin-off: Davies also created The Sarah Jane Adventures following the success of her returning to Doctor Who

'It is so consoling when one is sad and bereft to remember the good times, the laughter, the glamour. Those sweet memories of happy days with Lis Sladen, the lovely, witty, kind and so talented Lis Sladen. I am consoled by the memories. I was there, I knew her, she was good to me and I shall always be grateful, and I shall miss her.

Other tributes came from another Doctor Who writer, Mark Gatiss, who tweeted: 'A tear, Sarah Jane? Farewell to the wonderful, irreplaceable Lis Sladen. The best. x'

Doctor Who Magazine, that is believed to have broken the news of her death, wrote: 'With great sadness, DWM must report the loss of our beloved Sarah Jane, actress Elisabeth Sladen. The best of best friends. Too, too sad.'

Starting out: A young Sladen as Sarah Jane alongside Jon Pertwee as The Doctor in Doctor Who in the early Seventies

Lifelong Doctor Who fan Stephen Fry added: 'What terribly sad news about Elisabeth Sladen - her Sarah Jane was part of my childhood. Deepest sympathy to her family.'

And Jonathan Ross added: 'RIp Elisabeth Sladen aka Sarah Jane. Sad news.'

Last night, the BBC confirmed her death in a statement: 'It is with much sadness that we can announce Elisabeth Sladen, the much-loved actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who and CBBC's The Sarah Jane Adventures, passed away this morning. She was 63.'

In a 2006 interview ahead of rejoining Doctor Who, she said: 'I think it has lovely layers and I'd defend the programme to anyone.

'I'm very emotionally part of that programme and I think a lot of the people who worked on it are. You used to love going to work every day.'

TV classic: She remained on the show when Tom Baker replaced Pertwee as the Doctor

Her return to the franchise was such a success, she then appeared in a spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, which was broadcast on CBBC.

The show proved popular with young fans with the fourth series being screened last autumn.

The BBC had planned to produce a fifth series, but that now looks unlikely following her death.

Sladen is survived by her actor husband of 42 years, Brian Miller, and their actress daughter Sadie.

Long marriage: Sladen is survived by her husband of 42 years, actor Brian Miller

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Tiger painting created with three naked women Artist Craig Tracy has found a way to give his work added depth, by using naked women as a canvas to create a painting of a tiger.

Craig Tracy worked with three models for 24 hours to create this image of the endangered South China tiger.

He used a template drawn on his studio floor as a guide before he arranged the women and carefully applied paint designed for human skin. 

The 43-year-old, from New Orleans, has painted on 400 bodies.

He said: ‘All of my models are volunteers. I never use agencies or websites to find them. They find me.

'Girlfriends that I have had, have had an understanding of what I do and the professional nature of how I paint and create. So I have never had any issues regarding jealousy - I simply wouldn't tolerate it if they did.'

From humble beginnings as an airbrush artist in a local shopping mall at the tender age of 16 - Craig has gone on to set up the world's first art gallery dedicated to body painting.

Painstaking: Craig Tracy (Picture: Caters)

'The rich and famous seem to enjoy my work in due proportion. I have sold some works to them for up to $1,200, but I could never say which ones,' he said. 

'But it isn't just celebs who love my work, people from all walks of life love it.

'I've never had a negative interaction regarding what I paint or how I paint it.'

The self confessed art nut believes this particular work is his most successful and important of his life.

'Dead alien' turns out to be stale bread Students behind the discovery of an alien's body at a UFO crash site have admitted it was a hoax - made out of stale bread.

A video of the find shot by Timur Hilall, 18, and Kirill Vlasov, 19 - supposedly showing the alien's mangled body frozen in snow in  Irkutsk, Siberia -  became a world-wide sensation after appearing on YouTube.

Now the pair have admitted it was a prank after being quizzed  by police over the stunt.

A Russian interior ministry spokesman said: 'We found the alien in one of the student's homes.

'It was lying under his bed and an examination of it revealed it had been made of bread crumbs which were then covered in chicken skin.' 

Now police and prosecutors are considering whether the pair have committed any crime.

'What are we going to do with them? We have not yet decided.' 

The bogus body appeared after locals reported seeing an alien spaceship crash in the region last month.

Local UFO expert Alex Komanov from the Russian UFO Research Centre immediately dismissed the find saying: 'The body is interesting. The texture is similar to a real biological entity.

'However, the creature has no clothes and I am sure that intelligent beings would be dressed in something like a space suit or coveralls.'

But UFO fans are already accusing the Russian government of staging a cover up.

'We know what we saw. Powerful people in the military just don't want us  to see this,' said one. 

Elvis fan recreates Graceland in Denmark

Graceland Randers opened this week in the Danish town of Randers, 5,000 miles from the original in Memphis, USA.

For 95 kronar (£11), visitors can imagine life as Elvis Presley as they walk around the building which houses around 6,000 items of memorabilia.

The house is twice as large as the original as it also comprises a restaurant, shop and museum.

And creator Henrick Knudsen, from Denmark, said the project had the backing of Elvis's widow Priscilla.

He said: ''She signed a very nice picture to me on which she wrote: 'To Graceland Randers, Priscilla Presley'.

''She said that Elvis was a very shy guy and he wasn't really that secure of himself.

''She believed that if Elvis had the chance to see this today he would be very proud because he wasnâ t sure that next year anybody would care about him.''

Mr Knudsen has run a small Elvis museum for the past 16 years which attracts around 25,000 visitors annually.

He has been planning Graceland Randers for the past few years and secured 26m kronar (£3m) to fund it.

The attraction contains 6,000 original possessions of the King including clothing, boots, guitars, letters, contracts and other diverse objects.

Graceland Randers was opened by former rocker Suzi Quatro and organisers hope it will attract around 50,000 visitors each year.

The town's tourist office expects the Danish Graceland to attract between 75,000 and 125,000 visitors each year, mainly from Europe.

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Former Brookside actor Brian Regan appears at crown court accused of murder

A FORMER Brookside actor appeared at Liverpool Crown Court charged with the murder of a former Liverpool doorman.

Brian Regan (pictured), 53, who played screen favourite Terry Sullivan for more than 14 years, appeared via video-link alongside co-accused Lee Dodson, 42.

Both men are charged with the street shooting of Iranian dad-of-one Bahman Faraji, of Toxteth.

Mr Faraji, who was known as Batman, was blasted at almost point-blank range by a killer with a shotgun outside the Belgrave pub in Aigburth.

The 44-year-old, who moved to Liverpool about 15 years ago, had left the pub on Bryanston Road with two friends just before 7pm on February 24 when he was gunned down.

Regan, of St Mary's Road, Garston, is charged with murder and perverting the course of justice.

Dodson, of Logfield Drive, Garston, is also charged with murder.

Both men spoke only to confirm their names and that they could hear proceedings as they appeared on television screens linked to Walton prison.

Neither man entered a plea to the charges.

A third man, Edward Heffey, 40, of Beloe Street, Dingle, has already appeared at the Crown Court charged with Mr Faraji's murder

The case of all three men will now be joined together and they will appear again on Monday, April 18, for a preliminary hearing.

The Recorder of Liverpool, Judge Henry Globe QC further remanded both men into custody.

Unshaven Regan, who was wearing a striped T-shirt, thanked the court.

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