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Bonfire night - Chilli and Walnut Treacle  Toffee - mmm lovely....
recipe below!

Posted by Kul Cuthbert

Leighroy's original recipe for Chilli and Walnut Treacle Toffee...

 here's an eeeeasy peeeeasy  toffee recipe from the author Leighroy Marsh
to keep your self warm.....   replacing the treacle for syrup! 

TUESDAY, 2nd NOVEMBER 2011

Chili and Walnut Toffee......My original recipe

The HPM was keen to remind you all about this original recipe for a toffee treat that bites back,


The Hairy Plug Monster's Chili and Walnut Toffee 

(Caution this recipe will most definitely contain nuts - if you put them in)


50g Crushed Walnuts
1/4 Fresh medium sized red chili finely chopped ( - please bear in mind you are                 making toffee and not a Vindaloo)
450g Soft Brown Sugar
225g Syrup
110g Unsalted Butter
2 tbsp Water
1 tbsp White Vinegar

1. Place half of the butter into a heavy bottomed saucepan together with the chopped chili and crushed walnuts and warm for a few minutes on a low heat.
2. Then add the rest of the butter, water and vinegar and heat gently until the butter has melted.
3. Add the sugar and syrup, allow to fully dissolve, this takes about 20 minutes.
4. Boil the mixture to a temperature of 138°C (Not having a thermometer I take my best guess at the temperature, making sure I don't burn it)
5. Remove from the heat, allow the bubbles to settle.
6. Pour the mixture into a well oiled 18cm (7 inch) sandwich tin.
7. When the mixture has cooled a little mark the surface into squares with a knife.
8. When the toffee has cooled break it up into squares, wrap in cellophane and store in an airtight container.

That's it - it might not score any brownie points with your dentist - but you and the kids will love it....

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BE CAREFUL ETHEL 

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It's a Sellout!

Local Author from Great Moor Stockport - Leighroy Marsh is doing a story time at Toys and Tales in Bramhall on Saturday evening for Halloween 

kids from 7 upwards have been asked to dress up in their finest Zombie outfits… and look as scary as possible!!!!!           

there's going to be lots of fun and scary looking people  around!

ALSO  on Sunday heading down to London  

The Headmistress from Adswood Primary School has been nominated for the 

Henry Winkler Award for Special Needs

3 schools have been nominated and the finalist  are 

Adswood Primary School, Stockport

Round Oak School, Warwick

Wren Spinney Community Special School, Kettering

taking place at  Pearson Teaching Awards UK Ceremony at the Palace Theatre in London 

You can watch it live on BBC2 at 6pm on Sunday 30th October.

Leighroy has been asked to accompany the Headmistress with the Illustrator  

on Sunday  - and if the School wins,  together they will produce and publish books for Pupils with Special Needs….

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for more updates and news about forthcoming events….

Posted by Kul Cuthbert

Leighroy Marsh shared a link....

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/browse/ebooks/childrens/young-

children/4290793859/?pageNumber=0 

Number 1 in the 

picture book download charts....

eBooks and eBook Downloads at 

Waterstones.com

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Saturday's reading is a sellout....excellent

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"The Child on the Hill"

MONDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2011

Image of the Hunter from the story "The Child on the Hill"

Written by Leighroy Marsh - Author/Songwriter

The Child on the Hill

I received another illustration from Jodie to accompany the story "The Child on the Hill" recently and I love it.  It shows the hunter and proud father of a newborn son resting by a tree, while in the distance the stag watches in sorrow.  Until now, I have been quite secretive about this tale; showing no-one apart from my daughter Arisha - and when she read it - she cried!. 

This in itself is quite a compliment, as The Child on the Hill is meant to be sad.  It's not shocking or close to the knuckle; there's no blood or gore; nobody dies a gruesome death and there's nothing overtly supernatural about it.  It deals more with parental love and the hope and dreams that one has for their children. 

It was originally based  on an old Japanese tale I once read in an equally old book that I bought for 5 pence at a school jumble sale (that's what they were called in those days.)

Even though the final draft of my story bears no resemblance to the original, I should still credit it as inspirational.   However, I have spent quite a few hours trying to find this story again on the internet but haven't had any luck.

In addition to illustrating The Child on the Hill, Jodie has also agreed to do the illustrations for Golden Arm and One-Legged Steve and in return I am going to turn her impressive portfolio into a separate stand alone ebook complete with ISBN number  et al ready for sale on t'internet. 

The Pot Bellied Cook and the Three Legged Dog

Kim has sent over several rough images for The Pot Bellied Cook and the Three Legged Dog which I shall start work on in November.  The finished book should have the same look and palette as Be Careful Ethel.

In an old wooden tavern, quite close to a bog

Lives a pot bellied cook and a three legged dog
He spends all his days making green smelly cheese
While the three legged dog sits and scratches his fleas

High up in a tower, lives the Old Purple Bint
Who drinks nothing but smoothies of onion and mint
She grows all her food in a pair of old boots
And makes soap from the juice of the dandelion root

As I mentioned in an ealier blog - the inspiration for this poem came from several sources, The cook was based on a heavily pregnant friend and the three legged dog was her pride and joy - Colin the whippet who had recently survived cancer at the cost of his leg.  

Secondly - one of the first people to buy the Hairy Plug Monster, also blogs and tweets under the name 'The Purple Bint   'http://bintgarden.blogspot.com/  (worth more than a cursory visit), and I said  would include her character in a poem.   

In these days of being 360 degrees PC, it would be unwise to use the word 'Bint' given all the derogatory connotations so over the  last week she has undergone a makeover  and has been re branded The Old Purple Leach.  (sometimes you have to compromise for the greater good)