March 23rd
The weirdest thing is happening to me! Even though i could allow myself chocolate again today, i find i genuinely don't want any!! I am looking forward to our 'eggs' which are made of German Printen and beautifully decorated:
There is absolutely no chocolate in them. I expect we will have them with a cup of [...]
February 28th
My manager has today brought in a huge box of Terry's All Gold and placed it right next to me! ARRRGGHH!!! This is a huge test of my chocolate resisting for Lent.
To encourage myself i have made a ticker that shows that i have been without chocolate for 22 days! :)
I am mostly tracking my [...]
February 6th
I have given up chocolate for Lent. I've tried it before and not succeeded, but i am determined to give it a good go this year.
Last year i just gave up milk chocolate and only ate dark chocolate instead. That was a great success, and i actually went off milk chocolate altogether! For the rest [...]
October 4th
Something has completely just made my day!! I went to Morrisons at lunch time and guess what i found: WISPA BARS!!! They were at the front, near the cigarette counter, a whole big display of them, with the slogan: "Some things are better left in the 80s. Other things aren't!"
So of course i bought one! [...]
September 2nd
Just finishing up configuring the computer … i have managed to enable sound - hooray! Strange it didn't just happen automatically when all i needed to do was run alsaconf and it figured it all out for me. Also playing with Samba and network sharing … at the moment i can see my partner's computer, [...]
August 18th
I just heard on XFM that Cadbury's are going to be re-launching Wispa, after a long, hard campaign to bring back the chocolate bar of which Dairy Milk Bubbly is an extremely poor substitute.
What i want to know is … when are they going to bring back the Fuse bar?!??!! I really miss that lovely [...]
August 13th
I was absolutely delighted today to discover there is a Co-op in Woking! For a while i have been getting my dark chocolate from Alldays, which sold Co-op chocolate until it went and turned into a Budgens, which sells no fairtrade chocolate whatsoever. But a quick look on the website turned up a Co-op just [...]