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The Lack of Blogging Is Due To A Family Tragedy
Dear readers I am behind on my blogging and I wanted to let you know what has happened. I have a few blog posts already written and ready to post but for the images. The images always give me grief ...
Tomorrow Is Valentine’s Day…
... and I already know that it is either flowers or nothing. I’ve been told no cards and really I guess after 15 years I shouldn’t be surprised or upset but hey – a girl can dream. Husband doesn’t read ...
Is This The End of Green and Blacks?
Has the death knell sounded for Green & Blacks as the Kraft takeover may see it move away from promoting the brand and leaving it to languish before killing it off? Is Green & Blacks the first casualty of the ...
Have You Ever Had One Of Those Days?
Well, I’ve been having one since Friday. Everything seems to be going wrong from missing a deadline (I thought I had until midnight but I didn’t) through to tube disruptions, late trains home, and all sorts of small and big ...
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Southbank Chocolate Festival on Now
Trapped in Toronto as I am (and loving it) I am unable to attend the Southbank Chocolate Festival happening right now. This is always the *best* place to get chocolate for gifts and I’ve watched people like Outsider Tart sell ...
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Christmas is nipping at my heels…
I have done an overwhelmingly large number of reviews of Christmas stuff. This week, I have Black Rock Love and their really different rock and fudge on Tuesday after the Blue Basil Brownies along side the Carluccio’s mini panetonne and ...
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This Week I Lost a Friend…
… and the world lost a bright star. I cannot imagine what it would have been like to be a widow at 26 and so I cannot imagine what Jaamit’s wife is going through but having suffered tragic losses, I ...
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I think I might be sick of chocolate…
I don’t know if anyone noticed but last week I reviewed all sorts of more affordable chocolate. In fact, I reviewed two types of chocolate each day. That was a bit extreme and while the cupcake chocolates had been reviewed ...
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Of Chocolate Makers and Chocolate Snobs
I went to an event this week where “chocolate snobs” were referred to derisively. It was asserted that those who demand higher quality chocolate were actually ignorant since it is the type of cocoa bean used. I would argue that ...
Sunday chat with chocolate chip cookies
I’ve been arranging my next visit to Toronto and going through the reviews and video footage I still have left to post and edit from my last trip. I guess the trouble with that sort of thing is that I ...