You create beauty with your attitude,you make an impression with your behaviour,you make statements with your elegance & scream out with your actions. - Sophia Elemara

Classy is when a woman has everything to flaunt but chooses not to show it.- unknown

Beauty alone is not impressive. Put an Attitude to be attractive and add Brain to be sophisticated.- unknown

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool. - George WashingtonShowing a great amount of skin when you dress up isn't the way to find prince charming. Prince charming likes his gifts wrapped.

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Mary Berry’s Apple and Cinnamon Cake

 

Ingredients

• 225g softened butter
• 225g light muscovado sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 100g walnut pieces, chopped
• 100g sultanas
• 225g self-raising flour
• 2 level tsp baking powder
• 400g cooking apples, peeled, cored and grated
• 1 level tsp ground cinnamon

To Finish

• light muscovado sugar, for sprinkling
• extra chopped walnuts, for sprinkling
• icing sugar, for dusting

Preheat the oven to 180oc/Fan 160oC/Gas 4. Grease and base line a 9 inch (23 cm) deep round cake tin with baking parchment.

Measure the butter, sugar, eggs, chopped walnuts, sultanas, flour and baking powder into a large bowl and beat well for about 2 minutes until thoroughly blended.

Spoon half the mixture into the prepared tin then spread the grated apple and ground cinnamon in an even layer on top. Spread the remaining cake mixture on top, level the surface then sprinkle generously with light muscovado sugar and walnuts.

Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 1 ¼ – 1 ½ hours or until the cake is well risen and golden brown. Leave to cook in the tin for a few minutes then turn out, peel off the parchment and finish cooling on a wire rack. Dust with icing sugar to serve.

“Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself” said Oscar de la Renta

 

Maureen O'Hara - 1945 spoke out about Hollywood’s sexual harassment

 

Maureen O'Hara was an Irish actress and singer. She was a famous redhead who was known for playing passionate but sensible heroines, often in Westerns and adventure films. 

O'Hara starred in the 1941 Oscar winner 'How Green Was My Valley,' along with 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame.'  

If people had actually paid attention to that great and fearless beauty Miss Maureen O’Hara 72 years ago, how different things might be. The extensive bad behavior of powerful people, and the suffering it caused, would not have been wiped out, of course, but it might have been greatly lessened. She died at the age of 95 in her sleep of natural causes in her home in Boise, Idaho, on October 24 2015. 

Simone D'Aillencourt

Simone D'Aillencourt or d'Aillencourt was a French model and talent agent. Her career in modeling, during which she achieved significant success, took place from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s.

Simone d’Aillencourt in white crépe dress by Nina Ricci, 1957.

D'Aillencourt made her final series of photographs in India 1969 after a successful career of 15 years in the fashion industry; she always kept with the trends over time, from the sophistication of the 1950s to the greatest freedom of clothing the following decade. Sometime after she stopped modelling, she founded a modelling agency in Paris, Model International, which quickly grew, and then a second agency of a more modest size, Image. She died in Paris on 23 July 2017 

She was tired