Chocolate is my favourite comfort food. It makes me feel happy and safe and it’s possible the only food I eat mindfully.

I like to eat it slowly, savouring every mouthful, making it last as long as possible. I talk to it, telling it how much I love it, thanking it for choosing my mouth. ‘I love you.’

I like chocolate that has nuts in it, orange centred and coffee centred and strawberry centred. Dark and milk, mint flavoured… oh yes, I love mint flavoured chocolate.

I like white chocolate too but not all brands. Cheap white chocolate is awful.

My absolute favourite is Raffaello. If you’ve never had it, you’re missing out! If you like almonds and coconut you will LOVE Raffaello!

I have no ‘before’ photos but lots of ‘after’ photos! Here’s an ‘after’ photo!

I’ve recently discovered the Raffaello chocolate bar! Divine!

If you’re reading this and you know me, and you ever want to buy me a present, this is what you should buy me. A bottle of red wine to compliment it would be brilliant, but just the Raffaello would do, thanks!

Thank you for reading today!

Do you read fiction? Recent historical (50s/60s)?

Would you like a peek inside the pages of Secrets in the Babby House? You never know, it might just be your cup of tea!

Set in a gossipy small town in Ireland at a time when marriage is for keeps and sexuality is repressed, Secrets in the Babby House is a family saga over three decades that starts in 1956. It is a story of love, deception, and stolen diaries filled with sins and secrets.

Also available on Rakuten Kobo book.

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