Winnie builds a legend
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WINNIE the Pooh has been recreated in LEGO.
A set featuring the bear and his pals from Hundred Acre Wood has gone on sale for £90.
Kids can play with Tigger, Winnie, Piglet and Eeyore around an oak tree.
The set was dreamed up by LEGO fan Ben Alder.
He said: “I love Winnie the Pooh and remember my parents reading it to me as a child.
“I now read the same Winnie the Pooh stories to my children, so it is certainly something dear to my heart.
“I decided to make the set so my children could bring to life our bedtime stories.”
Ingredients:
80g Cadbury Mini Eggs
100g rolled oats 200g plain flour 2tsp baking powder Half tsp of bicarbonate of soda Pinch of ground cinnamon Quarter tsp salt 100g light brown sugar
Two large ripe bananas
Two large free-range eggs, beaten
60g butter, melted
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas mark 4. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases. Put the Cadbury Mini Eggs into a sealable plastic bag and smash them into small pieces with a rolling pin. Mix oats, flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre.
In another bowl, coarsely mash the bananas with a fork and mix in the beaten egg and melted butter. Add this to the dry oat mixture, then fold through gently with a spoon until everything is combined. Stir in the smashed Mini Eggs. Do not overmix. Divide between the paper cases.
Bake the muffins for about 20 minutes until they are slightly risen and golden brown. Test to see if they are cooked by inserting a skewer into the middle – it should come out clean.
Cool the muffins on a wire rack before serving. Store in an airtight container.
Don’t call it a comeback. After rediscovering his edge two years ago with Dolemite Is My Name, Eddie Murphy plays it safe with a bland retread of his 1988 hit.
Comedy sequels rarely work (jokes are seldom as funny on the second telling) and, despite some mildly amusing sequences, Coming 2 America is too happy to coast along on cameo appearances, broad comedy and knowing callbacks to the original.
Here, the culture clash is thrown into reverse. Instead of Murphy’s pampered African prince Akeem searching for true love on the rough streets of New York, it’s the turn of his street-smart American son Lavelle (Jermaine Fowler) to be the fish out of
water when he visits his father’s opulent palace.
Since we last saw them, Akeem and his American princess Lisa (Shari Headley) have raised three healthy daughters. But Zamundan tradition dictates that Akeem needs a male heir. And when his kingly father (James Earl Jones) takes to his death bed, he orders Akeem to return to New York to bring back a love child he never knew existed, his return prophesised by the royal witch doctor.
A brief stay in Queens allows Murphy and his co-star Arsenio Hall to don prosthetics to reprise their comedy side characters. The film’s funniest and liveliest sequence takes us back to the My-t-sharp barbershop where the brass-necked regulars lecture a young client on “political correctness”.
Wesley Snipes, who was so good in Dolemite, has his moments too. But these talented comic performers deserve far better material.