Harrods Praline hot chocolate

Harrods have now rebranded their hot chocolate range (as of early 2017) and at the time of writing have two flavours - this one being the Praline.  It comes in 300g bags within a copper coloured container, priced at £12 a tin.  The Praline makes a good flavour, although not as nice as their previous range of flavours (salted caramel, hazelnut, mocha).  But it's still a VERY good chocolate - made with hot milk, not the instant type, with either one or two heaped teaspoons of the chocolate mix.

This is available in their Brompton Road store in London and online HERE and presumably through their airport duty free shops at some point.

Mozart white chocolate liqueur drink.

This is an Austrian kirsch mixed with white chocolate cream (along the lines of Baileys liqueur) and is seriously yummy!!!  More commonly found in Continental Europe - seen often in Airport duty free - but is also available in Harrods in London though currently priced (Feb 2017) at £19 a bottle.

See here White chocolate liqueur

Fortnum and Mason Golden Crunch piccadilly biscuits

This tin contains around a dozen biscuits made with honey, oats and coconut - these are a VERY nice biscuit!!!  Not quite my favourite of this range, but certainly in the top three!!  The price is £7.25 a tin and you won't be disappointed with them!!

These can be ordered online here Golden Crunch as well as instore at the Piccadilly branch, the St Pancras International station branch and probably at the airport duty free shops too!

Fortnum and Mason Clotted Cream Digestive Biscuits

These are the Fortnums "plain" clotted cream digestives and - although good biscuits - are the least favourite out of this range of seven biscuits.  Tin of around a dozen biscuits in a fancy green tin for £7.25 and can be purchased online HERE

Sussex Thins "Sweet Sussex" biscuits

We bought a packet of these biscuits at a Christmas Market in Brighton - all the stall were selling locally made produce from Sussex, the county that we live in.  These biscuits are a dark brown colour and slightly sweet and made from a recipe found in a 200 year old recipe book in the Horsham Museum that belonged to the Shelley family!  These are seriously delicious on their own and go surprisingly well with camembert cheese too. 

Ingredient info on reverse of box

These biscuits cost £3.25 a box and are available through various stockists listed on their website HorshamGingerbread.co.uk  Unfortunately, they don't seem to do mail order!

Fortnum and Mason Chocolate Pearl Piccadilly biscuits

These Chocolate Pearl biscuits are a poshed up chocolate chip cookie and boy, are they good!!!  There's about a dozen biscuits in a tin, very buttery digestive with choccie bits in for £7.25 a tin..... aptly a chocolate brown coloured tin!  These are available through the Fortnum & Mason website as well as instore - can be purchased here chocolate pearl biscuits

Very recommended - one of my favourites of of this range!

THIS ITEM HAS BEEN REBRANDED.  SEE NEW REVIEW HERE updated review

Book review - Touching the Void

Touching the Void

By Joe Simpson

Published by Vintage

ISBN 0-09-977101-2

This tells a true story of Joe Simpson (author) and his friend Simon Yates who were mountaineering in Peruvian Andes in the mid 1980s.  They successfully reach the peak but on their descent, Joe has a nasty accident and breaks his right leg at the knee and ankle, leaving him dangling over a ridge.  Simon was unable to see and hear Joe and, as the ice/snow under him started slipping, was then in the position of being pulled off the ice wall thus risking both their lives or to cut the rope.
Luck seemed to be with both of them, however, as Joe Simpson not only survived the fall, but also managed to crawl, hobble and drag himself back to their base camp, (Simon assumed he had died in the fall) surviving three days without food and water, and arriving on the day that Simon planned to leave base camp to return home.
This is one hell of a survival story and is well worth reading.

Available through the Book Depository here Touching the Void book