That sounds wonderful Lucky, I couldn’t imagine being a parent at 19! However it does mean they grow up when you are still young. 40 is still young. My eldest is only 11 so although she is easier than her brother she does still need me a lot!

I do a milder version of what you’ve stated for me though, I go out alone without kids when I can and visit local sites with stone circles or castle ruins etc, I really enjoy that, as well as making time to paint or write. A couple of years ago I had fallen into that place where all I did was work and look after the kids. I also have an awesome friend and periodically we do things like history walks or ghost tours (we’d get on well you and I lol) or concerts etc, as well as getting together regularly just for a good walk and catch up.

oh, and NO I wouldn’t know where to start writing erotica either haha, I’m not a prude either but I would find it difficult to find the words lol.

It was tough, and I was isolated hundreds of miles from my support network with a useless (now thankfully ex) husband. I wouldn’t change my children for the world but the difference between becoming a mum at 19 and my final time at 30 was worlds apart. Mine turn (between July and September) 21, 14, 13, and 10 this year. The middle two were fun and very hard work, 12 months and 3 weeks apart. I was taking my daughter to the HV and picking up pregnancy test results the same day. My (very posh and aloof) HV hugged me, so I should have known what was ahead of me 😉

That sounds really nice, I can confess something now then 😉 My lovely friend paid for hubby and I to go away for two nights the weekend before my birthday, to this little village with a lovely ruined castle opposite it. I planned the whole weekend to suit me. I have friends who have gone to Benidorm, or Blackpool for their 40th and got horrendously drunk and had strippers and… zzzzzzzz. I’m 40, I’ve been drunk more times than I’ve had hot dinners. Naked men, when you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. Instead… I ate out every day, in a gastropub, in an all you can eat Chinese restaurant (because I like Chinese and it’s nobody else’s favourite so I never get it), and hubby booked a meal in the hospitality before the rugby match of the team we support. I sampled several real ales, including local brews in the little pubs, whereas I usually drink wine. One day, we did nothing but… go and look around old churches. Yes, I am a church geek, cathedrals, abbeys, chapels, but I love the big ones the best. I love them, the feel of them, the peacefulness, the stained glass windows. Everything. You could drop me off in Buckfast and leave me there for the day and I’d be happy. Izzy = Castle geek. Lucky = Church geek 🙂 Love it!

In my NaNoWriMo I had to stop at where the love scenes would have been and just refer to them after as having happened. I just… couldn’t do it. And that’s plain, normal, suburban stuff! Not gimp masks and flashing… er… plugs.

I’m surprised Janey hasn’t surfaced at the mention of erotica, that girl has got a #filthradar too.

nothing wrong with a healthy filth radar! You might like my blog lucky…

http://izzydoesfridays.tumblr.com/

It includes a link to a new blog as tumblr became tricky for uploading pics, but most of the places I’ve gone are on the tumblr blog, and I haven’t updated the new one for ages but I need to get around to it.

I visit churches as well.

Ooooooooooooh I will go over and have a look now! I blog too but I’m pretty useless at it, keep forgetting to post. Especially now I’m either cooking, calorie counting or on here… 😉

Your photos are amazing, Izzy! It’s a bit of a bugbear of mine, I take awful photos which is a bit rubbish when I’m posting a recipe lol. You live in such a beautiful part of the world 🙂 We have a stone circle in our village, I have a photo of it on my phone, from when we went for a massive walk around the town a few weeks ago. They were for a blog post too… I’ll get round to it. I’ll let you know when it’s up 🙂 One of the most beautiful places I have ever visited was at the start of my birthday weekend here http://flusteredshell.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/birthday-weekend-away-part-one.html
Unfortunately my pictures didn’t do it justice, as usual. I took so many but I had to be selective about how many I posted, the posts were long enough as it was. I do tend to ramble on a bit… don’t know if you’ve noticed… 😛

Nothing wrong with your photo’s it looks lovely there 🙂

On a serious note… We are both 40… both blog, both like churches etc, both ramble on a bit, both write, both crazy (in a good way!) think our parents aren’t telling us something? lol

Most of the stone circles on my blog follow a particular design that is only found here, across an area of 100 or so miles I believe. Ours are linked to a lunar pattern as opposed to solar like Stone henge and the like are. I just find it fascinating – they are over 4000 years old and very little is known about them.

I’m still looking at your tumblr blog!

This sounds like a plotline for my next book… hahaha. Two women. Separated at birth. Brought together again by a very low calorie diet forum…

Well, after reading that about your stones, I realised I knew nothing about ours and … pfffffffffft, nothing mystical or special about these, they’ve only been here since 1965, laid to commemorate an Eisteddfod held locally. Hubby had asked me the other day if I knew anything about them… 4000 years? Wowsers. Have you seen them all, or is there a lot to go?

No I haven’t seen them all but I have seen the best ones I think, there may be one or two good ones yet to see. There are many that can’t be seen now destroyed by farmers etc or natural land changes but many locations are still known. They are shown on OS maps if you ever wanted to see if any are close to your home.

I also like to look at carved pictish stones, quite a lot of those here as well as some random ones than have weird stories.

One random stone sits in the middle of a field close to where I live called ‘The Court Stone’ it isn’t 100% known why it is there or how long, but there are two tales. One is that it commemorated a king (I can’t remember which one) the other story is much more exciting!

During the time of the plague a local sorcerer was said to have somehow magically contained the outbreak sealing it under the stone. Therefore it should never be moved or the plague will be released. It used to be kept painted white until about a decade ago – again no one knows why. I don’t think it has been excavated at all but aerial photography shows evidence that at one time it may have had a fence or something around it.

I like history, but it’s the mystery I am drawn by… all the things that are NOT known.

I know what you mean, and we never, ever will know either, not in this lifetime, anyway. I live in a beautiful part of Wales, and I know very little about the history of it. I know there are places on the island with special historical interest, I should look into it more. Another thing on my list is to walk the coastal path, it’s over 120 miles long. Not in one go, of course. It’s broken down into sections. Hubby is still not well enough though and I don’t drive so, that’s on hold for the foreseeable.

good evening ladies my you have been busy today !!!
i have venturrd out to the altar tjat is tk maxx ( or tacky maxx as i call it !!) on a hunt for bargains but alas no bargains but bottles and i mean bottles of ” blackberry syrup”” it was the most gorgeous colour and looked like two thirds of the bottle was sugar but i bet it taste good on pancakes !!!!!!! i however just gazed at it and bought i jar to put my chickpea flour in oh yes ladies i know how to paarrty!!!!!
had a quiet day with a lovely m and s burger no bun and a shish kebad and salad for tea , very nice but not my usual theres usually chips and desert too so was very good if did over cal today !!!
its blowing a gale here so feel for janey and her bbq !!!

Hello Tokyo, I was wondering where you were hiding!

Tacky Maxx, haha, that is one shop that I never have any luck in. You bought a jar… to put your chickpea flour in… ROCK N ROLL, folks! Saturday nights don’t get any better than this!

I love Shish kebabs, I made some the other week, but holy hell they were hot. So hot.

It’s blowing a hoolie here now as well, but it was so warm, I’ve just had to open the living room window. Hopefully Janey is too drunk to care by now!

my hubby says you have to have faith at the altar of tacky maxx “if you go it will reward you “!!!!!
all very zen like i once bought a jacket that i had seen waited for it to go in clearance got it in the end for £11 put it ebay ( the bay of dreams!!!) as we call it got £100 result !!!!!
my hubby did better i saw a scarf for a fiver he went and bouggt it put it on ebay and i tell you no word of a lie £150 !!!!!
so its always a surprise will a bargain pop up or will it just be a jar for flour !!!!
how rock and roll hey !!!!
and let me tell you it doesnt stop there i watched mission impossible with old short arse cruise too whilst eating my kebab !!! can i live or can i live !!!!!

Oh my God, that’s a great result. I wouldn’t know where to start doing that, or what to buy, I don’t follow fashion at all. I never have any luck in there, nor Primark. Maybe when I’m smaller I will, but bargains are few and far between in my size in most places. Ones that I feel comfortable wearing anyway. I do have a bit of a love for Joe Browns stuff though, especially their coats and dresses. I bought two coats at Christmas and I put one on today as it was raining and it was baggy on me! They’re going to have to be altered, I tell you, for what they cost me. I never ever splurge on clothes but one was my dream coat that I’d been after for ages and it was half price and I needed a waterproof winter coat desperately. It’ll probably cost me as much to get them altered lol.

I’ve been doing some writing tonight, my chat with Izzy has spurred me on to carry on with my little tale of mayhem 😉 Another good thing, I haven’t thought of food once. I can’t eat and type/concentrate at the same time! Yay!

i see we have a budding writer in our midst !! i hope you dedicate your first novel to ” the ladies that no longer lunch”(only if its low carb !!!!!
i do love my clothes and shoes have a look at some shoes called irregular choice they are my faves !!! ( flats cant do high ones!!) so i am always looking for a good bargain !!
my wardrobe contains many sizes large to small but i never seem to through stuff out i am waiting for that cinderella moment but this time once i hit were i want to be i am binning the large !!! or ebaying it !!!
i have never had any luck in primark dont get it !! and i hate any shop that wont do bigger than a 14 they want slapping !!! ( particularly the size 0 assistants !!!)
i am a bit of a vintage gal i love 1950s dresses skirts they suit my figure hourglass i think they call it i say big arse !!!! and voluptuous( if thats how you spell it !!)

One of the things I want to do in my den with customising clothes is things inspired by Joe brown I love those clothes as well. Glad you are writing again Lucky I’m painting and having such fun all on my own in my quiet loft. I too know how to paaaarty, with my cup of herbal tea haha

Haha, it’ll never see the light of day, mark my words. For my eyes only. I can still dedicate it to us though 😉 I can’t wear heels of any description either. I spend about 360 days of the year in flip flops. People think I’m nuts, snow, hail, rain, flip flops.

Yes, I agree with you there. We keep stuff that is too small but there’s no sense in keeping stuff that’s too big. We say ‘Oh I’ll slim into it’ it’s a daft mentality to keep things ‘in case I get fat again’ lol.

I bought a lovely 1950’s style dress for my friend’s wedding two years ago. I loved it but I bet I’d look better in it smaller. That’s another thing I would have altered and is not getting thrown!

They’re fab aren’t they Izzy? But bloody expensive. Do you mean like the patchworky type stuff? That’s what my coat is like, it’s mad and crazy and more like my something the girl I’d like to be would wear than actual me, who spends so much time in black that you’d think I was in mourning. Well, I am. My size 8 figure lol. I love their bold print dresses too. I’ve been looking at the sale that’s on now and I’ve had to stop myself from buying some bargains because I know I’ll only have to pay to alter them. When I reach goal, that’s it, the next sale I am going to have a field day!

Cream soda here 😉 I haven’t had alcohol for about 6 weeks… Lordy…

Waaaay hay, Janey back in da house! Yes I’ve had a few sherberts but not too much. BBQ went swimmingly, weather held off, kids didn’t kill each other and we’ve all been laughing hysterically playing ‘Cards Against Humanity’ (do not play this if you are of a sensitive disposition!) Strawberry cake was consumed by people in spite of complaints that it was not sweet enough. Tasted fine too me but then I’ve not had sugar for 2+ months!

Love hearing your mid life crisis or ‘before I’m 40’ stories. I had mine at 38 and I dare not write the details on here. Suffice it to say that I decided not to say ‘no’ to anything for 12 months (unless it was dangerous)! I had a riot of a time, a massive card bill, a new car, 2 trips to the USA and a lot of memories, most of which I could never repeat in polite company! By the end I was done for! 6 years on the wild streak is more contained but will always remind me!!! People told me I should write a book. I did briefly have my own ‘Janeycoughdrop’ blog site but it never went anywhere. I’d need to remember whose names had been changed to what!!

I have always wanted to play that game but I’ve never had the right crowd with me that at least two of the questions would offend or upset… I am so jealous 🙁 Glad the weather held and that you enjoyed the cake, sod everyone else, it was for you primarily, wasn’t it?

Omg Janey, what I’ve been doing is pretty tame then? Churches, real ale and fawning over 20 something boy band members??? Adam touched me though. Not inappropriately. But he touched me.

I need to re-evaluate my mid life crisis. Clearly.

Each to their own midlife crisis. I enjoyed mine but am glad to be out the other side of it! For my 40th I hired a house and a naked butler for me and my friends because, well, why not! But then I am that rare beast that not only likes ancient buildings (hence English Heritage membership) but also plays CAH and knows the offside rule! Bed is calling now I’ve got rid of all surplus children (my one is flaked out in bed and will sleep in tomorrow) and the duvet of destiny is waiting. Nunite you lovely people! X

i need to have one ( a mid life crisis that is !) i am 51 this year !!!

Yes, yes, get on and do it! Every woman needs one!

Naked as in naked naked?? Why not indeed…

I’m off too, shattered. See you all tomorrow, hope your head is ok Janey!

PS: Oh heck yeah Tokyo! We can plan yours with you! I think, for a woman, it’s actually overdue a bit??? See you in the morning, usual time, hopefully a pound lighter… 😀

did someone say naked?

I’ve just finished painting… up far too late I will regret it in the morning!

My mid-life crisis – stay up late painting haha

We did say naked, or rather Janey did, that one’s a bit of a dark horse methinks. It’s all coming out now. Naked butlers, patchwork quilting, English Heritage. What other hedonistic tendencies are you keeping covered up, Missy?

I hope you get some sort of a lie in… 2 am, you must have been engrossed in what you were painting, is all I can say! Very little would make me want to see two 2 o’clock’s in one day!! Not even naked men.

Scales are up by a pound today but I’m not that bothered because I have another NSV. My wedding ring (2002) and eternity ring (2003) fit perfectly. Because I was pregnant when they were both bought and I must have had sausage fingers or something. Engagement ring, however, was 1999 and I was 11 stone… so in the climb to nearly 18 stone, my ring finger has ended up with a kind of… muffin top spilling over the top of the engagement ring. It was not budging and at times could be quite painful. Today, with a bit of a twist and turn, the ring now comes off! So, I can’t lose weight from my cankles to fit into my boots, but my finger poses no issue, evidently 🙂

Food today is beef burger without the bun. Beefburger salad, essentially. I’ll shove gherkins and all manner on it. And for lunch/brunch I’m making some scotch eggs with Heck sausage, my double yolkers, and I’ll put a smidge of almond flour on as a coating. Have to make some for the children too, and I use dry sage and onion stuffing mix to coat theirs, little trick I found in the very first cookbook I ever owned. It’s so good, tastier and crunchier than breadcrumbs, but it’s got wheat in it so… almonds with a bit of dried sage for ours, methinks!

Still in a lot of pain today, and my allergies are going nuts, my nostrils feel like they’re being pricked by a million needles, but just stopping short of making me sneeze, so I have that non-sneeze discomfort too. I am permanently on the verge-of-sneeze. So I’ve abandoned my mammoth, never ending, to-do list for a shorter one of ten things I must do today before I can retire for the day. Day of rest, pfffffft. Catch y’all later 😉

Hands up who has a hangover. Er..that’ll be me 🙄 Note to self: drinking several glasses of bubbly after 9 weeks on the wagon is not a wise move…..

I intend to loaf about today. Minimal child interaction as just my boy is home, tennis final later, left over BBQ to consume, possible spot of reluctant gardening (where’s Tokyo when I need her?!).

Speaking of tennis, meant to tell you about the best mirror ever, EVER at the tennis club we went to yesterday. It was in the ladies changing rooms and it turned me from the 5’5″ size 14/16 dwarf that I am into a 5’9″ size 10 with my original legs that Claudia Schiffer borrowed! Was like a hall of mirrors type one, but good! The woman who came into the changing room after me even asked me if I’d seen it! Apparently it’s just a cheap B&Q one. I need that mirror!

Oh and Lucky, did I mention I’m a part time naturist?…..☺️

*Lucky’s hand doesn’t go up* – fresh as a ruddy daisy me! I do feel for you, Janey. I could put wine away and then function, run a business for 12 hours a day, come home, sort the kids, do the housework, cook a meal from scratch… and get drunk again. Now? Even one bottle of wine and I have to completely write the next day off. Even if I don’t consider myself tipsy at the end of the night. And I’ve read about how being low carb affects you, so now probably one glass and I’ll be ruined. There is nothing now that will cure a hangover for me except greasy food. Hubby has to go and get me fish and chips, or a pack of pies, and of course, I can’t do that now. I think that is what’s putting me off drinking now, the fact that I can’t ‘recover’ in my usual fashion. Be kind to yourself today. Sofa, hair of the dog when you can stomach it, vow ‘never again’ and move on. Sod the gardening.

The mirror sounds fab, I wonder how I’d look in it… 5 ft 5 is tall, Janey. I’m 5 ft 1 and a smidge. I have to go on tiptoes to get things at the top of my kitchen cupboards. And that’s the floor level ones… 😉

Seriously? Seriously seriously? I’d never have the balls!

I’ve done all I can off my list that won’t wake the remaining 50% of sleepers up, need to hoover through before I can mop… washing is all done and drying in the dryer because it’s crap weather. Dishes are all done, hob cleaned after cooking the steak >.< I need to make my scotch eggs now, and inventory my freezers. Yes, inventory my freezers, because evidently, I have no life! And seemingly, no food either, despite both being full. Full of WHAT? Frozen bloody vegetables, that’s what.

That’s the issue. No full Monty fry up with several rounds of white toast to get through the hangover. Gah, even the tea smells funny when I drink it. Eggs and maybe a leftover BBQ sausage will have to do. When I can get out of bed.

Yes, seriously, seriously! I don’t fret majorly about body issues anyway after my year of living dangerously but my OH got me into it. We go to Vera Playa in Spain. You can walk down the street in nothing but sunglasses. And flip flops. Given the size, shape and age of many of our fellow holiday makers, I don’t worry about not looking picture perfect! And V ery little holiday washing to bring home!!! And no tan lines 😱 We went to a place near Skegness once to. Not the same. At all.

You could still have a fry up, eggs and bacon with mushrooms (not for me yuck), tomatoes. I like to add fried onions. No toast of course but still. hope you feel better soon Janey. I don’t drink much and not at all just now, not due to the diet but medication.

I’m only 5 ft tall!

I’ll keep my clothes on… all for naked butlers though!

I’ve started a blog Lucky (and anyone else) if you want to see what I’ve been doing in my den!

http://dragonflydreamseeker.blogspot.co.uk/

Awwwww Janey, poor you. Hair of the dog! Get one down ya!

I suppose if everyone is in the same boat it’s not so bad 😉 As long as it’s not all ‘body beautiful’s’… Yes, I can see how Skegness might pale into comparison to Spain. And that’s not just your skin tone upon return.

Morning Izzy! Did you get a lie in of sorts? I shall pop over there and take a looksee 🙂

The blog is lovely, I love your little space 🙂 The picture is fab! I can’t draw a stick person… lol.

My son was up by 0800, sleepy Izzy!

my god i go to sleep and all manor of things are revealed naked butlers !! did i see naturists!?
and lucky freezer inventory !! you go girl then come and do mine theres nothing in it !!!!
well my plans for the day not much trying to get my enthusiam for return to work tomorrow !! i can do it only three days come on girl !!!!!
think of the calories i will burn i am thinking of getting one if those pedometers things want a cheap reliable one looking on ebay !!! any ideas ?
brunch for me in a bit good old eggs and bacon then chicken salad for tea got the next three days organised for breakfast yog and strawberries or stewed apple and lunch chicken / cottage salad and evening meals sorted too !!!!! got a big 2 litre bottle of water to take with me and will take 4 yes 4 not 3 or 5 almonds in case of hunger !!!!!! mrs organised smug now off to clean upstairs ( but so far laying on bed talking to you lot !!!)

I know Tokyo, you’re mis-timing everything this weekend, sweetie!

That’s not too bad for such a wee ‘un, Izzy. Or, rather, it wouldn’t have been if you’d gone to bed at a reasonable hour. Tsk 😉

I’ve done everything except the freezer, just can’t face it at the moment, I think I need a coffee and five minutes first! Scotch eggs were a success! Shared one just with hubby, I used 50g almond flour, dried sage, salt and ground black pepper for the coating and they turned out great. Who needs bread? Nobody. Except maybe Janey. This morning.

Tokyo, I have a Jawbone UP2 wristband thingy, I think you can get them now for £30/£40. My friend keeps buying the latest Fitbit and she swears by them but I don’t need to know half the stuff that provides. Mine does sleep, deep or light, activity, calories burned, you can input your food, weight. You can ‘battle’ against friends on it, compete to see who does the most steps etc. One of the best Christmas presents I’ve ever had. Never had much luck with normal pedometers personally, I either lose them or end up washing them when I forget they’re clipped on my waistband lol. I’ve washed two WW ones in the past and they were nearly £20 a pop each and told me sod all! Go on, treat yourself! Think of all the cake and wine and pies and cake and cake and biscuits you won’t be eating over the next couple of months/years! And cake!

i shall look into that one i am the same losing the ones you put onto your waistbands !!!!
right off to do brunch please no more wild revelations whilst i am away ladies !!!!!

Plus, they don’t tend to be very accurate. Every time I went for a pee and pulled my pants up and down it was adding about 50 steps to my count! 😉

We shall try… but can’t promise anything, Tokyo.

Hi tokyo14
If you have an iPhone just download the pacer app, excellent pedometer, cheap pedometers are rather unreliable.
Regards
Jan

Hangover is finally receding thanks to a marvellous (if I say so myself) omelette and some painkillers. It nearly killed me to cook it (OH is to cooking what Paltrow is to cake) but I managed to eat it and enjoy it by the end. OH and child have disappeared off out while I watch the Men’s Final… Love Wimbledon! 🎾

I have taken advice from the effects of last night’s alcohol vs lack of carbs to soak it up. The BSD body doesn’t like it. One bit. Lesson learned. On the plus side there is a small amount of the ‘cake no one likes’ left for me to have with a cuppa in a while. Life’s not all bad 😉

was the cake good then by our standards? what was the recipe ?
i need a pedometer i can wear at work unfortunately no phones allowed !!!!!

By BSD standards it was great 😋 The hordes complained it had no sugar in it (it had coconut milk, strawberries AND dates in it.. How much do they need?!) but for me, and my friend’s hubby who likes plain chocolate it was fine! I glazed the berries in top with a teeny bit of coconut oil and a spoonful of the raw honey I bought. Just as good as jelly! Next time I would add a bit more baking powder for a better rise and try to find a ‘cream’ to go on top of the base and under the fruit.

Glad you’re feeling better Janey. I’m thinking long and hard as to whether to ‘risk’ drinking in the foreseeable. I thought the cake looked fab. I’m finding things very sweet all of a sudden, I had a couple of almonds before and they were really sweet, something I’d never noticed before. If I’m baking in future with that coconut stuff I’m going to use much less than the recipe calls for.

I really enjoyed my tea, against my expectations. I made sure I had all the tastes of the burger on my plate, the salad, gherkins, mayonnaise, and I ate it, very slowly with a knife and fork, cutting the burger into the smallest of pieces. Felt like I’d eaten a huge meal. If it had been on a barmcake, it’d have been gone in five bites!

You see? Burgers are not so bad without a bun, are they? Especially if it’s a good burger. I’m getting quite used to eating them ‘au naturel ‘. The burger I mean, not me!

Not at all, and I didn’t miss it. I’m craving very little at the moment and it’s great, neither sweet nor savoury. Satisfied with what I’m eating.

Ha, are you sure about that, Janey? 😉

What’s everyone up to tonight, then? I’m reading one of the seventeen thousand books I have lined up ready on my Kindle, while the footy is on in the background. Youngest has Portugal in his class sweepstake and will win a prize if they win, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed or he will have a Horrid Henry ‘It’s not fair!’ type hissy fit.

Yum burgers, the bun is just filler anyway!😹 Can’t keep up with you lot, your chats are hilarious and extensive! 👏🏻👏🏻😝
Just watching the match here after chicken curry and trusty cauliflower rice! Made the chorizo and pepper soup from the book earlier earlier, with beans instead of the chick peas as didn’t have any. Also some dark chocolate and one of those chickpea biscuits this eve – cut back on the sugar in them so now they don’t really taste of much, still tasty enough tho.
hope Portugal win!! trying to shake myself up for a walk but shouting at the telly might have to do 😜

I’m in ‘mum mode’ worrying about Ronaldo’s knee. He may look like a perma-tanned plastic boy but I don’t like to see anyone genuinely injured 😢

Let over BBQ with spicy cous cous and squeaky cheese salad (the recipe is on here.. You’re welcome) for me. Half time I may eat my little piece of cake with a cuppa.. Or a Willie..

Hello Epspecially 🙂 Lol, extensive meaning… rambly? 😉

Soup sounds lovely, I love a bit of chorizo. Nothing like a nice spicy sausage… Ah did you make Tokyo’s chickpea biscuits? I think they’re going to be trial and error with the sugar and chocolate bits to get the right balance of sweetness, isn’t it? As long as it overwhelms the ‘chickpeaness’ of them. It’s not a bad taste, but it’s more savoury than sweet. Cheap enough to practice with though, I suppose, compared to almond flour anyway!

I’m supporting Portugal too, mainly because of Ronaldo, because I am a United fan and he’s a legend. Feel so sorry for him, he must have really hurt himself to ask to come off. Walk on the spot and shout at the telly 🙂 You’re welcome. Full of use(less)ful ideas, me!