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July 2008

  1. Country Living Magazine: eat only the best chocolate

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    We had a lovely piece about us in Country Living magazine at the beginning of the year.

    The text starts like this:

    My New Year resolution is to eat only the best chocolate – such as the fabuloso fresh handmade Fairtrade chocolates from chocolala

    I couldn’t agree more. Quality rather than quanitiy. It was the same when I used to make theatre. I remember being told once how good a play was because it lasted for two and half hours so was good value for money. The fact that the show was deadly boring with very little to recommend it in terms of form or content didn’t seem to matter.

    Give me 30 minutes of fully engaging gorgeousness every time.

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    I do find it very funny that the picture next to the chocolala tin is… of a pig! Might this be a subliminal message? or some kind of therapy for the picture editor at Country Living? or a very cleverly placed joke?

  2. an 18th birthday cake for May

    This is the birthday cake I made for May’s 18th birthday. The briefing conversation included the words: outrageous, arty, gothic, memorable, wacky… and with a loose underlying midsummer…

  3. elle magazine: luxury ethical chocolates on test

    I’ve just been sorting through some stuff and have come across several things I should have mentioned here on the blog from ages ago… as usual, the posting failed to appear at the…

June 2008

  1. chocolates for salad

    Had a day out today in Clapham (North Yorkshire!) to visit a lovely organisation called Growing with Grace. They are an organic nursery, growing all sorts of salad and veg and running a veg-box scheme…

  2. chocolala in the Independent’s Ten Best Luxury chocolates

    The Independent do a regular feature called ‘The Ten Best’ (or the IndyBest… to those who know it intimately). We were really delighted to get into their Top Ten Best Luxury…

  3. fairly traded chocs for mums… and dads!

    Given it’s father’s/fathers’/fathers day tomorrow (see previous blog!) I thought I’d tell you what we did on… err… Mothering Sunday. Apparently, Mothering Sunday…

  4. fresh fairtrade fathers day chocolates (…and the case of the missing apostrope)

    It’s Fathers Day on Sunday. If you're wanting to send some chocolala chocs, get your order in ASAP. Does anyone else struggle with where to put the apostrophe in… errr… the day…

  5. Ben’s Birthday Cake

    OK, so you're still waiting for the surge of blogging… but I’ve been busy over the last couple of days, in part making a 40th birthday cake for my friend Ben. I hoped to get the cake…

  6. the choco blog buses… all coming at once (errrr maybe)

    Ho Hum, well so much for that new year’s resolution about blogging more. I will, over the next few days, try and have a little flurry of blogging activity, and endeavour to tell you at least…

January 2008

  1. Buy your Valentine’s Chocolates NOW …and find out about us sending them by ‘special delivery’ post

    Our valentine chocs are now in the chocolala shop. They’re gorgeous, inscribed with hearts and kisses or wrapped in pink foils. You can buy them now for delivery from the 9th of…

  2. the perfect small gift or present, wedding favour, welcome, thank you… whatever: the chocolala trio has arrived.

    Well, along with our regular tin and the square dozen box, we now have something new in the packaging stable. The trio is the chocolala ‘fun size’ and it is the cutest thing ever. A…

  3. Observer Food Monthly: chocolala praline comes top of its class. HOORAY

    Still catching up on last year… chocolala appeared in November’s Observer Food Monthly, and did rather well in their chocolate taste test. The adjudicator was chef and restaurateur,…

  4. valentine chocolates coming soon…

    gorgeous, sexy, delicious. Here’s a sneak…

  5. Fairtrade chocolatier in the Guardian …and the chocolala toilet tube photo challenge

    A couple of months ago we had a great article about us in the guardian. It was mainly about the ups and downs of setting up a business making fresh handmade chocolates, and becoming fairtrade…

December 2007

  1. 2008. May you revel in the gorgeous gift of chocolate… and may the post bring delicious Valentine, Mothers’ day, Easter, Birthday and Ramdom delights to brighten the World

    Well, it’s New Year’s eve and the air here is thick with chocolate related reminiscence and resolution. We’ve had a good year at chocolala; exciting and scary in equal measure, but…

September 2007

  1. chocolala in the Guardian’s ethical chocolates top ten list

    Just to let you know that the Guardian has listed chocolala in its top ten ethical British chocolates Hooray. The funny thing is that in their blurb they have described us as…

  2. gorgeous, ethical chocolates …gorgeous, ethical Hebden Bridge?

    Hebden Bridge is certainly a gorgeous place (in that slightly rugged former mill town way) but is it the ethical centre of the known universe? Apparently that’s the question on…

  3. chocolala chocolates… posted by royal appointment?

    I’ve just been in London… to visit the Queen. Acutally, that’s not quite true. I was down in London for a meeting of a Quaker committee that I’m on, and also decided to…

  4. Chocolates by (the Yorkshire) Post

    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…

June 2007

  1. Chocolala launches!

    Phew, we’ve made it. Welcome to the chocolala website. It’s been a bit of a journey getting this far… scary, challenging and with us having to make some tough decisions along…

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