All entries from 21st September 2007

• 21st Sep ’07 at 11:08 BST
• By Niladri
• 4 comments

Well our blogging software has been up and running for weeks… but I’ve been too scared to use it. The fear comes from a whole range of things… speaking out to the world (well, to the half dozen friends who might read this blog), grappling with the technology (some part of which will always remain a mystery!), poor spelling and sentence structure (3/10, must try harder) … but the greatest fear, the thing that is most paralysing, is the thought of being slightly dull and having nothing very interesting to say.

Being seriously dull would be fine. We can all laugh at seriously dull. It’s extremity gives it an intrinsic interest.

It’s the being slightly dull that’s the problem…

So I have a strategy to help me overcome this… use other people’s work which may (or may not) be of interest!

A couple of days ago we had an article about chocolala appear in the Yorkshire Post. (I wrestled with trying to find some witty word play around chocolates by post and the Yorkshire Post, but failed)… if you are so moved you can read the article here.

However, the Yorkshire Post also sent a video journalist round. He’s made a short vid of me getting covered in chocolate, which is now posted on their website. So, if you have 5 mins to spare and want to get an idea of how we make your chocolates, take a look *

* I never realised that I was such an odd combination of scary and camp. What a wonderful medium video is.