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I've used this recipe a couple of times: Ingredients: 150g mini-marshmallows 50g butter 250g dark chocolate buttons/chunks 60ml hot water 284ml tub double cream 1 tsp vanilla extract Method: gently heat marshallows, butter, chocolate and water, stirring. Once melted take the pan off the heat. Whip the cream and vanilla extract to soft peaks and fold into the chocolate mixture Chill until set (doesn't take much time as the marshmallows set it very quickly). It's meant to make 4 or 6 portions, but I'm a greedy mare so it normally serves me and me alone.

Happy thought indeed:lol:

I can't recall ever reading anything by either author, but when a synopsis makes me giggle I reckon the book has got to be worth a go. Next time I buy books this is going on the list - thanks Louise!

Tonight's dinner was a little shocking. I ate at Keele services on the M6 and it was edible!! No, more than that, it was NICE!!! Gammon, egg, peas, chips and onion rings - highly recommended if anyone happens to be passing.

I did think this week's episode was quite silly, but I liked it because of its silliness. I loved spotting the book titles (how they managed to work in "N or M") and Donna giving plotlines away - it did make me giggle. Nothing to do with the champagne I'd had with tea. Honestly.

Hi Nearco,

Hi Tinymoz,

Hello Jaya, and welcome!

Hi Leeanne, and welcome! I would love to be able to design jewellery. Sadly I'm the least creative person on the planet, but I do appreciate creativity in others!

I used to have a machine that I was given when at uni, but it was quite temperamental and I could rarely be bothered to clean it and faff about pulling it to bits and putting it back together. A shame, as the coffee from it was gorgeous. I've ended up giving it away and getting myself a Senseo. It's not the same as fresh ground coffee, but it only takes a minute (literally!) and there is minimal cleaning to be done on it. Oh yes, and it was only £20 in Makro. Happy days! What sort are you looking for - a straight filter-type machine or one that will do all your fancy bits as well?

I studied those books too. For the final exam they gave us the bit of translation about the volcano erupting and poor Cerberus sitting at his master's feet, whining. Needless to say, there were many sniffles from a very upset class of twelve year old girls during that exam. I think I'm still traumatised!

I love Tamsin Grieg but I've never managed to see an episode of this. My plan is that if I wait long enough, one of my friends will buy it on DVD and I can borrow it. Either that or I'll end up getting impatient and will buy it myself!

I watched the repeat this evening and thought this week's was gringe-inducingly awful. Just horrendous. Whay would you have decided to jump straight in without doing any preparation whatsoever? Ludicrous. Both thoroughly deserved to be fired. I too disliked Raef at first, especially when there was the snobbery issue going on (We're cultured and you are illiterate yobs). He has grown on me though, I must admit. I'm not sure about the gobby buyer (Claire?). She clearly knows more than she ever lets on in the tasks, and seems to enjoy watching the project managers flounder without stepping in to help - last week's disastrous greeting card pitch, this week not advising them to check the list. As a buyer, you learn very quickly to check your specs thoroughly and continually refer back to them. It is inconceivable to me that she didn't see what was going to happen. I find it really sneaky that she would keep her mouth shut about something like that. To my mind, if you all pull together as a team then you win the task and none of you gets fired. It's not rocket science...

Mmmm... haven't had a toasted teacake in I don't know how long. It's got to be a couple of years. Now I'm really fancying one. Sadly I'm not at home tonight so can't even go and get myself one. Tonight's tea was a manky sandwich left over from a buffet at lunchtime. OK, it was washed down with a Costco raspberry and cranberry muffin, but I bet I had your sympathy to that point, didn't I? Tomorrow I'm out in Liverpool at a teppanyaki restaurant. Should be a laugh.

I'm afraid I'm right with you. This is my least favourite Austen novel and I think a lot of that is becaused I find Fanny so insipid. It always makes me laugh when they try to make a film adaptation, as they have to completely change Fanny's character - anyone remember Billie Piper playing her? It does pick up at around the half-way point (somewhere around chapter 23/24), but it is an effort for me to get to that point.

Children of a Lesser God

Fantastic!!! I read this only last month. I was extremely bored in work and Project Gutenberg was calling, so I read this, Daddy Long Legs, Clover (follow-up to What Katy Did) and another one whose name escapes me... Cricket? Something along those lines. Astonishingly, I had managed to get to the age of 33 without reading Anne of Green Gables. I loved the book, but I do think that Anne was a bit of a drama queen. In real life I'd have probably hung around with Gilbert just to get away from her.