Today The Theme Is - Spitfire!

Not Half It Isn't
A blog of two halves today, for we also had a day of Conspicuous Confectionery Consumption, whereby square metres of food was placed dangerously close to Conrad*, from first thing in the morning until the sun set and the stars came out.
     Let me show you what happened at the start of the day:

The end of an ear

     This made Conrad angry enough to spit fire and no mistake.  For the earpiece to fall off like that implies Jenny, that furry foot-licking perv, had been chewing at it.  Bah!  Conrad does go through earphones at a rate of knots. 
     Next!

Spitfire Beer
Another beer with a martial name.  Conrad likes the taste, which is why he drinks it, and also because it lends itself to visual puns.  Here is a bottle straight out of the fridge:

Note wince-inducing pun on neck"The Bottle of Britain".  As bad as one of Conrad's!

     Which will shortly be going straight into Conrad.

Spitfire
Ah, yes, the Supermarine Spitfire.  Behold the bird:

Note registration "BOZO"  Clearly allocated by Gremlins

     The Spitfire is one of those vehicles that look fast standing still.  When they started to turn up in the Middle East to complement the stalwart but aged Hurricane, pilots in the Regia Avia and Luftwaffe started to have bad hair days.  Earlier, in the UK, the phrase "I'm a Spitfire pilot" had profound aphrodesiac qualities.

Spitfire - The Song
That very excellent band Public Service Broadcasting sure do make a lot of noise for a duo, and are good enough musicians that they can replicate their recorded sounds when playing live.  Please follow this link to see them playing that stormer of a song "Spitfire" live to an American audience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkIa8F1gEp0
     Sadly the audience don't burst into RAF slang and technical chat as must surely happen when they play in the UK - "Bogeys at Angels one-five!", "Biggin Hill out of action, divert to Tangmere", "Tally Ho, Tally Ho!", "Wizard Prang!"
     Or is it just me?

Wrigglesworth and Willgoose
With a Spitfire.  Cool!

Triumph Spitfire
This was a car:

A Car

     It was made in 1962 and could do 92 m.p.h.
     Here endeth BOOJUM!s interest in the car***.

The Mexican Spitfire
Ah, the Mexican film industry!  Purveyor of such undying pearls such as "Wrestling Women Meet the Aztec Mummy" or "Santo and Blue Demon Versus Doctor Frankenstein" or "Robot Versus the Azrec Mummy" or "Santo in the Wax Museum"^.
     Well there was also a series of "Mexican Spitfire" movies, except they were made in America.  They starred Lupe Velez as the titular spitfire - so-called on account of her fiery temper.

Lupe doing her Katie Woods impression.  Quite well, too.

The Spitting Devil's Cabbage
This occasionally-mentioned vegetable is from the Strugatsky Brother's science-fiction novel "Roadside Picnic".
     The brothers don't tell you what the Devi's Cabbage actually spits, but I guarantee it's not going to be cabbage juice or Perrier, so we will assume it's fire.

Vegetable Spit fire
(Yes I know it's a pepper but images of fire-breathing cabbages are hard to come by)

   They were Russian. Perhaps it was vodka?  That burns well.

Veggies Look Away Now!
'Twould not be BOOJUM! without at least some misdirection.

Spit.  Fire.  Close enough

AND NOW FOR CAKE!

Chocolate Tiffin
This is sugar and syrup and butter and cocoa and cherries and mixed peel, covered with a layer of chocolate and some seasonal sprinkles:

It was disgusting

     Well it must have been, only one slice got eaten, so Conrad is in a big huff^^.
Next we had Tom's reindeer cupcakes:

Hilarious, Tom, hilarious.
Not bitter at all, no, not me

     These went in no time at all, unlike the Tiffin.  Just making a comparison.
     Next, Dom's Gingerbread House:

Very pretty.  But I know what comes next ...

Bought up by compulsory purchase and demolished.  Heh.

     Then there was Anna's Ferrero Roche chocolate cheesecake, which the ladies queued up to buy.  Unlike the Tiffin.  There was a silver lining, however - it went so quickly Anna never got any^^^.

The Horror of Chocolate

     Finally there was Sophie's showstopper Shortbread Christmas Tree:

So attractive nobody wanted to eat it.

     There was a prize for best cake, which - can you hear Conrad's teeth being gritted so hard sparks are flying? - the Tiffin did not win.

Finally-
Door Number Ten on the Doctor Who Advent Calendar revealed another Dalek:

Yay.  Daleks.  As popular as Tiffin.

     Of course, it is Orange.  My Darling Clementine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrk70q-Li1E

* For your humble scribe has a very sweet tooth indeed.  Twenty-seven of them, in fact.
** We here at the Mansion are guessing at the star's appearance here as there is ten-tenths cloud cover over Manchester tonight.
*** BOOJUM! - hates musicals, not over-fond of cars
^ Do you see a trend here?
^^ Next week - just see what I bake into next week's cake.  Oh yes <tweaks moustache ends>
^^^ Nope, not stifling a snigger.  Not at all.  Not in - oh alright I am.