“Cakes. Don’t we all just love them. But this is no ordinary book about cakes. No recipes here rest assured. With obesity levels rising and sales of coffee tables at all time highs this book is surely a match made in heaven. A coffee table book about cakes. This friendly little book takes a humorous quirky glance at our relationship with cakes and reacquaints us with aspects of them that could so easily just have passed us by. Take the apple pierates for example, somehow my history teacher seems to have glossed over them. Then there are sections on cake history, cakes around the world, the future for cakes, and one of my personal favourites is the section on the cake eating championships. There’s much much more, well there’s a bit more anyway. So take a peek inside much ado about muffin and never see cakes in the same light again.”

(Source: lulu.com)

Created by Jessie Oleson

Shakespearian class trawlers

The Shakespearian class trawler was a class of anti-submarine naval trawlers that served the Royal Navy. Ships in this class had a displacement of 545 tons, a top speed of 12 knots, a crew of 40 men, and armament of one 12-pounder AA gun, three 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns and 30 depth charges. They were nearly identical to the Isles class trawlers, of which they are usually considered a subclass.

Three of the Shakespearian class trawlers were war losses: Coriolanus, Horatio and Laertes. One, Othello, was transferred to Italy in 1946, and another, Rosalind, to Kenya, also in 1946. By the end of that year, only Hamlet and Macbeth remained in service with the Royal Navy; both were sold in 1947.

HMT Celia - Launched 1940, sold 1946:

HMS Agincourt (x 5)

Five ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Agincourt, named after the Battle of Agincourt of 1415, and construction of another was started but not completed.

Oil Met By Moonlight (Part 2)

(Photo: Lowen Nobs)

‘BP Makes Eighteenth Oil Discovery in Ultra-Deep Water Block 31 Angola’

Release date: 27 May 2009

(Source: bp.com)

Oil Met By Moonlight (Part 1)

(Photo: Lowen Nobs)

‘BP Makes Eleventh Oil Discovery in the Ultra-Deep Water Block 31 Angola’

Release date: 23 October 2006

Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and BP Exploration (Angola) Limited today announced the ‘Titania’ oil discovery in ultra-deepwater Block 31, offshore Angola. Titania is the eleventh discovery that BP has drilled in Block 31. The well is located 23 kilometres northwest of the Hebe discovery, announced in Q4 2005. 

(Source: bp.com)

(Source: wikana.de)

The Othello

‘Striations of our soft choco sponge with delicious choco cookie cream, this is pretty when whole, and prettier when sliced. It has been very popular since it was launched, July 2010.’

チョキクッキーの上に、柔らかチョコスポンジとチョコクッキーの入った生クリームのケーキがさのっかった、一度食べたら病み付きになるケーキです。販売開始の２０１０年７月より、チョコレンガと共に、グラッセ人気のチョコレートケーキです。 

(Source: cakeglace.com)

(Source: coca.nu)

Othello by La Maison du Chocolat

(Source: lamaisonduchocolat.com)