CAKE AND MISCELLANY

PROVERBIALLY, YOU CAN`T

...have it both ways

...have your cake and eat it

...get blood out of a stone

...make an omellette without breaking eggs

...make a silk purse out of a sow`s ear

...teach an old dog new tricks

...tell a book by its cover

...shake hands with a clenched fist

...have a rainbow without rain

...pick up two melons with one hand

...fool all of the people all of the time

...sip soup with a knife

...catch a cub without going into the tiger`s den

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PATRON SAINTS

Barbers.........................................St.Louis

Artists & creatives.......................St.Luke

Cobblers.........................................St.Crispin

Florists...........................................St.Dorothea

Editors............................................St.John Bosco

Sculpters.........................................St.Claude

Tailors............................................St.Homobonus

Wine growers.................................St.Joseph

Pin makers......................................St.Sebastian

Lighthouse keepers........................St.Venerius

Bee keepers....................................St.Ambrose

Gravediggers...................................St.Anthony

Bakers..............................................St.Honoratus

Domestic servants...........................St.Zita

Tax collectors...................................St.Matthew

Broadcasters....................................St.Gabriel

Horses...............................................St.Giles

Dairymaids........................................St.Brigid

Taxi-drivers.......................................St.Fiacre

Singers...............................................St.Cecilia

Children..............................................St.Nicholas

Miners................................................St.Barbara

Syphilitics............................................St.George

Invalids...............................................St.Roche

courtesy of SCHOTT`S ORIGINAL MISCELLANY.

 

`There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting, though many of them would be the better for a little whitewashing`

OSCAR WILDE....

                                                

P.S.  My cake at last (above) !