Fancy a Bath Bun?

Given Tuesday's wet and dismal weather, I changed my Bus Challenge plans for today and arranged instead to meet a friend in Bath to see the film Mr Turner. However today turned out to be a lovely day, so instead of enjoying a Bath Bun at a pavement café, I spent the afternoon inside a dark cinema!

"Dr William Oliver is believed to be the creator of the Bath Bun... he was born near Penzance on the 4th August 1695. At the age of 19 he went to Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating M.B. in medicine in 1720. He then went on to the University of Leyden. Following some years in Europe Oliver returned to England and took his M.D at Cambridge in 1725. He was elected a fellow of The Royal Society in 1729.

In 1728 he moved to Bath. Oliver went on to found the Bath General Hospital (now known as The Royal Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases) with Ralph Allen, John Wood and Richard (Beau) Nash. He was elected physician to the Hospital on May 1st 1740, and retired on 1st May 1761, dying three years later in 1764. Dr Oliver first invented the Bath Bun for his patients, and its rich sweet flavour proved so popular for many of them it proved to be their undoing. The Bun laced with sugar and fruit was so delicious that many of the patients, whom he was treating for rheumatism, were becoming too fat on them. Consequently it is believed that Oliver experimented and developed the plainer less fattening Bath Oliver biscuits." www.thebathbun.com


Don't know why but have just realised this has uploaded to Thursday, when it actually was my blip for Wednesday! Don't seem to be able to change the date and now have a blip gap!!