Pages and Pages

I have only got three days to go until I can eat chocolate which I regrettably gave up for Lent. I say regrettably because the idea of giving it up was that I ate far too much of it so I thought that a 40 day break would do me good but I have found a surpising amount of non-chocolate substitutes to fill the past 40 days so have kind of defeated the object! We are going away for the weekend to stay in a lovely barn in the Peak District; the converted kind of barn not the barn that animals sleep in kind. I have already planned the many different ways that chocolate will be featuring during our mini-holiday and will be doing lots of baking tomorrow- this will be a true test- making chocolate cakes without licking the bowl afterwards!!

I still have 34 days left until Lent is over and I can eat chocolate again! I am absolutely fine; I have not found myself sitting there thinking about chocolate (which is unusual) but I am not fine when other people have chocolate in front of me! Mr S (my other half), unfortunately is waiting for his second year medic exam results this week therefore he has been very stressed and eating copious amounts of chocolate digestives and I have had to simply watch rather than joining in and he thinks he is being ever so funny by offering me the occasional one. Reading wise this week things have been good, obviously I finished The Kite Runner which was excellent and I wanted to read something different so I decided to go for a regency drama in the form of Regency Buck , plus it allows me to knock another one off my TBR challenge. I am really enjoying it; I have always loved this kind of book but had not heard of Georgette Heyer until she was recommended by a friend but I have to say that I am ...

I have made the decision to give up chocolate for Lent, so for 40 days, until March 22nd, no chocolate in any form can pass my lips! I have to explain that this is a big challenge for me, chocolate is definitely one of my main weaknesses next to handbags. I decided that it was impractical to give my handbag up so chocolate is the next option. Wish me luck!