Mmmm Chocolate

by Liz on February 8, 2010

Morning everyone, I hope you had a nice weekend? Sorry for the lack of blogging of late, my main contract ended last week so I’ve been trying to build my blog design business, which is going pretty well. On top of that I’ve been trying getting the redesign of our cottage holiday site done,  so I’ve been really busy and it’s kept me away from Violet Posy. But I promise to try harder this week to post more.

So having worked hard all week, I had a lovely surprise on Saturday morning. The kind folk at Green & Blacks sent us a bundle of chocolate to taste test. I was a little too excited as I’m a complete Green & Black addict especially the 70% dark.

So armed with a lot of different kinds of Green & Blacks chocolate and instructions of how to ‘taste’ which involved holding your nose whilst putting the chocolate in your mouth which made Lily giggle a lot.  We headed over to my parents for a taste test, there was no way we could do it all on our own!.  Dad was especially pleased to help out, anything to help out!

Lily and my Dad took the taste testing very seriously, she even poured us all a glass of water to drink between squares.  So as instructed we started off with the white chocolate and worked our way through to the darkest.

As you can tell from the video, we had a good giggle taste testing.  It turned out that my favourite wasn’t the dark 70% like I thought, but the Creamy Milk which was a huge surprise. Dad’s was the Almond, Paul was the 85% Dark, but he seems to have polished off the Almond bar fairly quickly.  Lily’s was the White Chocolate we lost her after we passed the 36% after then her squares got smaller and smaller as it’s was ‘grown up chocolate’. However the rest of the white chocolate bar is coming in handy for spelling practice bribery :)

The only one that we all universally disliked the cherry – it’s horrible, seriously bitter and unpleasant and trust me we’ll all eat any chocolate or anything covered in chocolate!

So we’d like to say a big thank you to Green & Blacks for a really fun family morning and thanks for all the chocolate that’ll keep me going for the next month or so while I’m sitting in front of the computer working.

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Wordless Wednesday

by Liz on February 3, 2010

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Interview with a 6 year Old

by Liz on February 1, 2010

Inspired by Mum’s the Boss and Rosie Scribble’s interviews with their children I thought I’d interview Lily – the answers were less scary than I thought they’d be. She took it very seriously and apparently they have to be realistic – LOL!

How old are you?
6

How old is mummy?

37 (bah right!)

How old is Nana
Might be in her 50’s or 60’s (she’s going to love that!)

Who is in charge of the country?
Prime Minister Gordon Ramsay (Well nearly right!)

Who is The Queen
Queen Elizabeth II (good work!)

What does Barak Obama do?
Prime Minister of America

What is your favourite food?
Chocolate Cake!!

What is your favourite song?
The Battle of Jericho (I have no idea what that is??)

Where do carrots come from?
Grow from the ground

Where do bananas come from?
Trees in Madagascar

How does a car work?
Engine – I know that from Top Gear (there’s my girl!)

What do you like doing at school?
Assemblies and playing handbells (do they?) and not getting into trouble (bless!)

What does mummy do while you are at school?
Work on blogs and getting me nice stuff. (Not wrong there!)

Where do babies come from?
They come from Mums (that answer could have been worse)

Where does poo come from? (naughty mummy, couldn’t resist!)

Bottoms

What do you want to be when you grow up?
A spy (nice!)

If you have children, what names will they have?
Rosie, Rebecca (where did that come from??), Amelia and Charlotte 

What makes you happy?
Getting lots of GoGo’s

I swear she’s actually 14…..

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February

1 February 2010

It’s February!

It’s the  month of Valentine’s, my birthday (38 eeek!), days drawing out and spring flowers coming through.  I’m ignoring the fact that it’s -3 out there at the moment,  I’ve just driven to school on a sheet of black ice and I can’t feel my toes. Happy February!

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Meme Frenzy

28 January 2010

I’ve been tagged 3 times this week and I don’t like to be a bad blog friend so I’m doing all three at once!
First off Karin at Cafebebe tagged me with HERE COMES MY FROCK meme to show your wedding dress. I’ll happily show off my wedding dress at the drop of a hat, I [...]

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{Book Review} Katie Morag and the Grand Concert

26 January 2010

Random House sent me an email last week asking if I’d like to review some of their children’s books.  A lot of them weren’t really suitable for Lily’s age group and then I spotted Katie Morag on the list and knew we had to read it.  Lily’s in Year 2 so Katie Morag is featuring [...]

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Letterpress

24 January 2010

My obsession with stationery started when I turned eleven and went to secondary school.  I blame my Mum for buying me some pencils with my name embossed on them I’ve never been the same again!  I can’t pass a stationery store without popping in ‘just for a look’, so image my delight browsing Etsy of [...]

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Objective Meaning

22 January 2010

Tim over at Bringing up Charlie created a new meme ‘My Object’ in the week after watching the BBC programme A History of the World. Running in partnership with the British Museum, this epic series takes 100 (well, 99) of the British Museum’s most important objects and tells the story of human history through each [...]

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Bloggers for Haiti

18 January 2010

As more information comes out of Haiti it becomes apparent how much the country will need help for a long time to come. 2 million orphans and millions homeless, the numbers of people needing aid is just unimaginable.  To try and help Bloggers for Haiti have started a Just Giving page to donate money to [...]

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Open Shelves

17 January 2010

PhotoCredit: Craft and Creativity Photostream on Flickr
I’m going to replace the upper cupboard on the right with some open shelves, because I’m taking the cupboard underneath out to fit in a dishwasher – Oh yes it will be mine!
On a more practical side, I think it’ll make the room look wider and I’ll [...]

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