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April Challenge part 1 - all for The Chocolate Challenge

 Just a quick post from me today, as I want to get back down in the sewing room to indulge in sewing tiny pieces together in the hole of using up some of my scraps (🤣🤣😂😂🤪 - yes, like that is ever going to happen!!), all whilst indulging in Howard’s Way, which has become even more appealing since I discovered that I could download episodes from series 1 (I had chanced upon it through the Sky TV guide so started watching from part way through series 4) - anyway, Howard’s Way is going to form part of my TV Critic badge.

Donate an Easter Egg - I did this in March, having also bought some eggs for the young people in our household - and here is the photo: 





I’ve started on the clause for trying 5 new flavours of chocolate that I’ve never tried before - and I’ve gone for Hotel Chocolat chocolates, which I bought at the train station on our return from London - a big little treat for me, and my review of them will be in a future blog, but here are a few of the flavours: 

At the current time I’m not going to play around with trying to format the pictures here, as it ends up taking so much time, and then I don’t get other things done! Trying the new flavours is certainly a treat for me, and a little indulgence too.

The other clause I have completed is sending someone on a chocolate hunt. I’ve done this for foster children in previous years, coming up with rhymes for the clues, then opting for anagrams (as the rhyming clues had proved too tricky), and now I go for partly obscure pictures of places in the house (which can still prove tricky as it really tests their powers of observation!). We have another young person coming to stay for a couple of days, so they will get to do the hunt as well. It was tested on Easter Day - and it showed how much we take some things for granted…such as the post box on the back of our front door, which is regularly checked by our young person, and yet they still thought it was our wood burner! Going around taking photos like this also showed me how much our microwave needs cleaning…(photos in the document as I couldn’t be bothered to get the set that I had printed…did I mention that I’ve really keen to get to my sewing room…??)


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