▞▝ a few squares worth

today I was given a bar of choc from my friend Paul: 

he thoughtfully bought me a bar on his recent trip to the big apple:

thank you lovely man:

so good to catch up with him in starbucks over a mocha and muffin:

I could listen to his soft scottish tones all day:

 as usualI remembered a million things I wanted to talk to him about ....

after we'd left and were driving our separate ways home!

*Lego sets, galleries and bookshares*

the other day I unearthed some old 'what to eat' magazines dating from 1899:

I'd found them in my last home and kept them for their amazing

covers and fonts:

showing how times change, they make amusing reading:

*more soon ~ watch this space*

these two advertisements jumped out at me:

suchard and menier ~ two well known chocolatiers now, but newly introduced to 

the USA in March 1899:

*note the 'means health in good nourishment' in the Menier ad, that is now my mantra*

it made me think of our dear English chocolate brand Cadbury's:

by 1879 John Cadbury's sons had relocated their fathers business to Bournbrook Hall, 

developing the village of Bourneville:

John Cadbury was quite the socialist, leading campaigns against animal cruelty

and child labour:

the generous ethos seemed to be carried on by his family and made his name

synonymous not only with the brown stuff, but also good old fashioned English spirit:

I wonder if this will continue when Kraft take over the name:

whatever happens it won't take away my memories of Cadbury's chocolates:

flakes plunged into a Rossi's icecream cone on the beach:

sticking your tongue into the oh-too-sweet-and-sickly Creme Egg:

and I'll never forget the Milk Tray man:

*who as a little girl, I told everyone he was my brother and his name was Robert*