chocolates – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:57:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg chocolates – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 On the twenty-first day of advent: the shortest day… https://shepline.com/2011/12/21/on-the-twenty-first-day-of-advent-the-shortest-day/ https://shepline.com/2011/12/21/on-the-twenty-first-day-of-advent-the-shortest-day/#respond Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:57:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1928 ~ I have finished my present wrapping – well, with the exception of the yet to arrive amazon delivery. Ggrrr, its frustrating. I pay for Amazon Prime which gives me free next day delivery on all eligible items (or everything sold by amazon itself), and ordered my last present on Sunday. It was dispatched on Monday with delivery scheduled for yesterday. When it didn’t arrive I went to track the order because all prime deliveries come with tracking to see that there was no tracking because it had gone out by standard Royal Mail. What the?!? So I contacted amazon by email and they responded very quickly and offered me £3 by way of compensation and dispatched a new copy of the thing but this one is still going out by First Class. Who knows when I will receive one or other or both or neither parcels…?

~ Emma’s best friend Caroline came to visit for lunch and pressies with her children on their way back up to Yorkshire. Arthur, in particular, did a good job of flying the feline flag and entertaining the children.

~ This afternoon I have been mixing up chocolate truffle mixture and baking mince pies whilst catching up on the last four days of The Archers

]]> https://shepline.com/2011/12/21/on-the-twenty-first-day-of-advent-the-shortest-day/feed/ 0 The Ninth Day of Advent: Carolling and Chocolate Making https://shepline.com/2006/12/09/the-ninth-day-of-advent-carolling-and-chocolate-making/ https://shepline.com/2006/12/09/the-ninth-day-of-advent-carolling-and-chocolate-making/#respond Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:20:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1522 After the storms of last week, and in particular the gales of Thursday night, we were scared for our plans to play more carols today. We should have feared not though, for today has been – like last Saturday – the most glorious of cold, crisp, sunny, blue-sky winter days 🙂 and the perfect scene for gathering at Millets Farm to play some more carols. Adorned with silly hats and tinsel we carrolled to the shoppers in two sessions, raising another stonking £125 in just one hour in the morning, and probably a similar amount in the afternoon. During the lunch break we went and enjoyed a hot soup and hunks of bread by a roaring wood fire, and counted the loot before having a little look round the garden centre, craft shop, and the animals – such cute little goats and pigs and alpacas.

This evening, whilst cooking my roast, I made up the chocolate truffle mixture in readiness for making into pressies…

…and now I have to think about that Christmas letter, and my cards!

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A fridgeful of chocolates
A fridgeful of chocolates
Originally uploaded by shepline on 12 Dec ’05, 7.02pm PST.

I haven’t counted them, but there’s one kilo of plain chocolate making up something like 120 plus brandy chocolate truffles sitting on a plate in my fridge at the moment…

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