Ganache tablettes and other news

Bonne année a tous! (avec un accent grave sur le A que je n'ai pas sur mon clavier) A good new year to you all! l still can wish it to you because we are (still) only the 31st of January. Yes, l made it, l have managed to get the new bars done and wrapped for you to enjoy some of the special fillings from the Solstice ganaches! It has been challenging to work this January, l could blame lots of things externally, which have made you wait much longer than usual for your special filled tablettes. A few examples of 'whose fault is it?': "it's my car's fault (noises, faulty breaks, musical bearings and garage trips - my life has been saved as the breaks were rotten and should not have passed the MOT last November!), it's the weather's fault (a bit of flooding, grey skies), it's 'having to go to the markets' fault (l used to take January off markets but decided l better go and earn my rent instead of lolling about complaining about the lack of sun and vitamin D) and there is my homeopathy course which takes a lot of time. The truth is, l have not felt like working very much this month and as a result, it has taken me ages to get the back stock made! (it isn't finished yet, l need to make a big batch of caramel in milk chocolate). This January, l have been 'resting' and reading books. You know, those books with happy endings which give a much needed dopamine hit? (l think it is dopamine when we are happy and look forward to the future - there is a bit of escapism symptom somewhere!) l have also been sorting out my problematic emails this January, which l was putting off. Dreading the "not having enough brain cells to understand what they would ask me to do". l had to contact the 2 companies who are responsible for hosting my emails and website, and l found out that for websites like mine and professional emails withy the website's name which are not hosted by big corporations, there is a setting and some code which the big corporations ask us to put in, in some obscure area of the domain names/email servers, and they update that at least once a year to "solidify" the security and protect users from the scam and fishing emails. l didn't know they kept changing the codes! This is another con, just like "prices going up every year"! Just to keep poeple busy so we won't be having time to look what THEY are up to! l know l had already done something like this last year to sort out my emails and thought it would be working for ages, so to find out a few months later that the emails had issues again and went into spam folders again was more than l could handle. l had to have some (nervous breakdown) about it, which manifested in "not wanting to sort it out" but this feeling didn't last overly long, l had to deal with it. l don't need much to crumble under the pressure of the dread of sorting out something like this, on the computer! l will blame that on my high school who didn't allow me to take early study of desktop computers, when other students were allowed to take a basic training. (oh, isn't it good to blame other people... lovely!) Fortunately, both Wix and 123reg, my website companies, have a good customer service (one on the phone, the other by "chat" both real humans,) and l would recommend them to those who, like me, don't have a Richard anymore, who could do all the complicated website work at a drop of a hat. Oh, don't l miss Richard, who is still in hiding at this time. l still owe his father chocolate but l was told l must not send him any in case someone else was to see the chocolate in his house and make an unpleasant scene. As a result, 4 years later, and still owing his father £40 worth of chocolate, l do wonder when l will be able to give him his chocolate, if he has not died yet as he had a lot of numbers near his identity, and a weakened heart. Unfortunately, l cannot find Richard's father's address, otherwise l would just send him some chocolate, regardless of any consequences and mobile telephone texts threats l may get. What should l do? l can't run away with those £40! Richard, if you read this, please get in touch, l can't be carrying this debt for the rest of my days! Other website news: l have changed the way my blog is being sent to website users like yourself reading this: now, l have a list of very few customers who have subscribed specially to receive the newsletter, and those who are "website members" will also get it, but all the other hundreds customers or users who had put their email address in the website will not get notification of this blog any longer. This will save me from having the disagreable news that some of the customers have flagged my (very rare) blog notification emails as "spam" which means with so many records of spam ( 4 people have done that out of 5000 emails sent) my emails are more likely to be recorded as spam by the globalists like Google and needing more sorting out with codes, which means more dreading and wanting to run away from the website maintenance responsibility.  So, it is very nice for me to have very few of you to be notified of my blogs, as it will keep it in a family and friends circle, and you will be the first one to get any offers, which l have randomly done. For anyone else who has not been notified and is passing by chance on the blog page and who really want to be notified: there is a form you can fill in on the contact page. l think it will then add your email onto my list of special people who will get the notification. (another area l need to understand better and am not sure about). Anyway, enough of all this, admitting to you that l have been a lazy derrière this January. The shop will be open today for those favourite flavours of yours! There are not many tablettes of each so you will have to be quick. There is something really nice about remaining a niche market... Thank you for being here! PS: the sleeves are plain this year, no fancy drawings for the ganaches, except for those returning from last year.