by Hannah on October 31, 2010
Because all the cool kids are doing it, and I haven’t. Written a Halloween-themed post, that is. You see, I didn’t have any fancy dress parties to go to or any orange foods to eat. No sirree. Today I had a lovely catch-up with a friend and rather a lot of chilli jam on toast for [...]
by Hannah on October 30, 2010
After punishing my brazenly snobbish, artisan-chocolate-preferring tastebuds with horrifyingly sweet Cadbury, slightly-less horrifyingly sweet Cadbury Top Deck, and then awful orange-tainted Moser Roth, I decided it was time to show my palate some lovin’. So I delved deep into my chocolate stash and pulled out something by one of my favourite bean-to-bar chocolate companies, Askinosie. One day [...]
by Hannah on October 29, 2010
About a month ago, my wonderful Grandma Mickey (the one who recently gave me a gorgeous sugar bowl) had a nasty fall which resulted in broken ribs and a punctured lung. I wouldn’t blame you for thinking that this would lead a lady in her mid-90s to be bed-ridden, but I would have to correct you [...]
by Hannah on October 28, 2010
I don’t know about you, but I need a break from eating and reviewing Cadbury chocolate. Sure, I have at least four more blocks to blog about in the near future, but I can assure you that there’s only so much hyper-sweet milk-diluted mass-market chocolate that I can take at any one time. So, instead, let’s [...]
by Hannah on October 26, 2010
First off, a big hello and welcome to anyone who’s popping by via the lovely Helen’s blog! I can tell you that a) Helen is just as wonderful in real life as she seems on her blog, b) I hope you enjoy poking around this teeny-tiny little blog-corner of mine, and c) you’ve arrived just [...]
by Hannah on October 24, 2010
A week or so ago I was on the phone to my brother (the magnificent E.TeacherLord who sometimes gives me chocolate but also once threatened to bite my nose off), and he started teasing me about how almost every recipe I post on this blog is sweet. I tried to argue that this doesn’t necessarily reflect [...]
by Hannah on October 23, 2010
The other day, I was walking through Woolworths after a particularly gruelling three-hour boxing session* when I made the mistake of passing the health food aisle. I normally bypass that area of the shop in favour of the produce, pasta, and peanut butter aisles, because in those aisles I get to ask myself the following exciting [...]
by Hannah on October 21, 2010
I’ve never been shy about expressing my love for the people I care about. This might have stemmed from a chapter of Sideways Stories from Westside School, in which a boy discovers that when you tell someone that you love them, you yourself fill to the brim with even more love that you felt before. [...]
by Hannah on October 20, 2010
Because, sometimes, the world seems like an overcast place even when the sun is shining, and the breeze that swirls around you seems less uplifting than threaded through with anxieties. And because, when that happens, you need something with the power to chase all the ickyness away. *laughs and laughs and laughs and laughs*
by Hannah on October 18, 2010
Back when I mentioned my $50 Cadbury prize haul, I hinted that I might have a go at writing one or more of my Cadbury chocolate reviews in poetry form. After all, it worked fairly well when I used limericks to associate Plamil chocolate with getting high, right? Maria voted for the first review to be done entirely in [...]