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3 Days to go!!!!!!


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!!
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