tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38114081226177012042024-03-19T15:15:01.902+11:00CygnetureCygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-85377867347191533602013-05-01T16:54:00.001+10:002013-05-01T16:54:12.029+10:0010 Great Things about Tasmania (and then some)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. We have the only place where it snows in a rainforest</span><br />
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Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-85593622689578213272013-05-01T15:49:00.000+10:002013-05-01T15:49:07.104+10:00May moves in<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ooops, it's been a while. Again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. I made a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pledge to write every month without fail. Ah well, I failed. Here's to Christmas and Santa chocolate spoons and bars and mugs full of fun. Mahlimae toys and water colours. Margie Kirk's Tiger-Tiger designs and a really cute Christmas tree from my back paddock. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For years, birthdays, Christmas and Mothers' Day, I would get a cook book and a CD, regardless of what suggestions I had made, subtly disguised as general observations. It took me a while to realise that my disguises were a bit too subtle. But I've got to say, I do have an amazing array of cookbooks and we have a mightily impressive CD collection. So now I always have lots of music to listen to while cooking a myriad of dishes, most recently using the Fathers' Day tagine and our new beaut paella dish, both purchased at our fantastic fruit and veg shop, Cygnet Larder. Love that shop.</span></div>
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Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-46169938757776421322012-08-10T06:31:00.002+10:002012-08-10T07:44:06.541+10:00Voice Crushes<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A friend on Facebook listed an article about Bjork & David Attenborough and whether the pairing would work or not & it go me to thinking... My mum and I both like Bjork and many years ago we discovered we both had voice crushes on Sir David. When she was a kiddy, she would run home for school every Wednesday to catch Sir David's latest adventures on the wireless.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">And so the story goes on, I have voice crushes on Sir David, Pierre Van Dorme (can't spell his name, but he's a French friend of David's who has the same deep throated accent as Daniel Auteuil, oooh, I just have a whopping all-encompassing crush on him. mmmmmm.....)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Back to the voices, then we have Rob Snarski from the Blackeyed Susans, well, just take a moment to listen to this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And last, but definitely not least, Peter Gee, News Reader Extraordinaire,with moments in the car when the news comes on and I say, "a bit of shoosh, Peter's on." "Ahh mum!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We have entered the Hobart Fine Food awards for the past few years and each year at the awards dinner, Peter is there. I get to listen to him for hours and then wrap my arms around him for a quick cuddle & photo opportunity. This year we won't be able to make it. My mum and dad's 50th anniversary is on in Sydney, which is very exciting, but it means we will miss out on Peter. But here's to you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Very pleased, this weekend I lost a follower, which brought me to 12, interesting play on getting me off the dreaded 13, not one I was expecting mind you. But we then gained two new followers. Yippeeee!!!! Ed & Jeanette, I can drop them up to the next market if you like, or just come in for a cup of tea sometime, and Melissa, please come in when you're ready. We're open Thursday to Sunday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">By the way, last Saturday we had the best Salamanca market since Easter. Coincidence? I think not!!! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">A warning for both of you, I'm not a regular writer, although I am improving and I would think the person who dropped me probably thought the blog was just downright boring.......</span>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-13203602750456644712012-07-03T15:48:00.000+10:002012-07-03T15:48:17.500+10:00upping the ante<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alright, make it an origin bar and an SHP (salted caramel). Just get me off this number. I'm gettin' desperate!</span>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-41746347236786307642012-07-02T18:51:00.000+10:002012-07-02T18:53:10.132+10:00Very superstitious<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those of you who know me well enough, know that I'm very superstitious. I currently have 13 registered followers on this blog, can someone get me off it pleeeeasssee???? First up gets a Cygneture origin bar. Pick-up only, so Kitty Lynch, Carmel Burke, Edward Ward, Danielle Klinge and all your foreign friends & associates and all of my foreign my friends and associates, you are exempt unless you turn up on my door. Please take this as a loving invitation to turn up on my door any time you like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, Edward, you have a significant package developing in your lovely wife, so a significant package is developing over here to celebrate too, with musical notes and pink booties for girls & little sailing ships for boys (actually, either way the bub will gets both just to ensure non-gender-snootiness)</span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ms. Lynch, you'll get what's coming to you, when I get my act together. It's the perfect time for posting to Europe, north of France at least. It's cold & wintry here and summer over there. As I said, perfect for posting...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A MASSIVE THANK YOU to the Cygnet Arts Community for another great parade this year. Yet another reason I LOVE LIVING RIGHT HERE</span></div>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-28268122805309284602012-06-21T18:55:00.001+10:002012-06-21T18:55:16.744+10:00For Karen<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Special request on photographs for Karen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've been busy little bees these last weeks, David has started a Cygneture Facebook page <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cygneture-Chocolates/318099721599927">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cygneture-Chocolates/318099721599927</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and we have been working on our website. Hopefully we'll finish the draft this week and send it off to our trusty friend, Richard Mitchell from Jump Shots, to update for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The delivery will take place tomorrow, while on our way to Cradle Mountain for a few days. Good Fun to be had by us. We'll be heading up with friends, to meet more friends, my kind of holiday. We have packed plenty of goodies collected at Cygnet Market today, Ed & Jeanette's pork pie, Cathy's almond shortbread and Cam's date & hazelnut loaf. No Sunday bubbles for us tonight, we're having an AFD, saving up for tomorrow night. <strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our garden is looking lovely at the moment, thanks to a long warm summer & autumn, and to Alex Sini who has been helping us to reclaim our plants and flowers. It is again a lovely place to be. Our house faces east so the sun comes up over our pretty front porch, where we sit and have endless cups of tea in the morning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the afternoons and evenings we retire to the back of the house and change our beverage selection to bubbles, beer, wine or cider, depending on who is visiting at the time. Lately we've been having a few mini bonfires to welcome in the cooler evenings while we listen to the footy teams training down the road and the cattle lowing up the hill. Tomorrow night we will be listening for possums and wombats. I hope. Now to the kitchen, dinner is needed for two over-excited little cherubs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thanks to the market we are now playing around with Rhu Bru concentrate in caramels and have started making Frogmore Creek Ruby Port Origin Bars for Meadowbank Winery in the Coal Valley, with some pinot skin experimentation happening as we speak. Stay tuned for updates on success versus failure... in fairness we never really fail, we just change our minds to suit the result.</span></div>
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</div>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-8976021079334526792012-04-04T06:20:00.008+10:002012-04-04T06:56:39.396+10:00Special Easter Request<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44J8_nVyHkNGIPSsxSRaPvI78fyZBEZeVurrVhjk3QPuIqRjKl_yeTKoHPZ9BriC45u9WJ2aSECkk9B_z-BBiSiO8Y1Um9c5J8XSjln6-qfz_rgXJGnncU8JwVnyhyphenhyphenuSm9AMeoP2CWSA/s1600/Mushroom+Glade+photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 150px; height: 200px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727280061707465314" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44J8_nVyHkNGIPSsxSRaPvI78fyZBEZeVurrVhjk3QPuIqRjKl_yeTKoHPZ9BriC45u9WJ2aSECkk9B_z-BBiSiO8Y1Um9c5J8XSjln6-qfz_rgXJGnncU8JwVnyhyphenhyphenuSm9AMeoP2CWSA/s200/Mushroom+Glade+photo.jpg" /></a>Photo 1: Mushroom Glade, these come in a little box with large and small mushroom & mini eggs<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBOYP_tZ7XywT5RnMRdBqCFm9o2DvHp9th5zj5YFxv1-Up8YGTNUeEOg3u1EX0lqbyLAxN8MJxLl1yENIAbtl7TOv13_WjitVIuO7i82HJ8Isw6dw_Dd5CIGjBhlpHesNU1NEpK2qFH6Y/s1600/Fowler+Egg+photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 150px; height: 200px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727279361211186018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBOYP_tZ7XywT5RnMRdBqCFm9o2DvHp9th5zj5YFxv1-Up8YGTNUeEOg3u1EX0lqbyLAxN8MJxLl1yENIAbtl7TOv13_WjitVIuO7i82HJ8Isw6dw_Dd5CIGjBhlpHesNU1NEpK2qFH6Y/s200/Fowler+Egg+photo.jpg" /></a>Photo 2: Comes in a variety of sizes, according to the jars.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQLl0g_vymD3w0uCQsTsMhNX6XiuVDCSAt2iBuTDtQPI38AqO4rGjLbm_m40HeiJVrrXzvrsPhmmQRT_1oHU09G59hCszT6D5fvq0S7a-ygAyGiB0lUBDLGA0ttVC-S0jO44_64FnEBfI/s1600/Boxed+eggs+photo.jpg"><span style="color:#000000;"></span><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 150px; height: 200px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727279051044008338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQLl0g_vymD3w0uCQsTsMhNX6XiuVDCSAt2iBuTDtQPI38AqO4rGjLbm_m40HeiJVrrXzvrsPhmmQRT_1oHU09G59hCszT6D5fvq0S7a-ygAyGiB0lUBDLGA0ttVC-S0jO44_64FnEBfI/s200/Boxed+eggs+photo.jpg" /></a>Photo 3: Comes in alcoholic & non-alcoholic<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowCypcLG_4_jQ-aHQkUpzEES0shWNHc0KXL7UWtrKihbYxzoIlr7Ka4K-yfU-_yVjuflyEF329EQGzBbCMIgRTYLPCAtKQt1esO9wGtskIhQ_t9j6I-XOQHGWFESd-8gEpYZlCqNTVkc/s1600/Easter+Egg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 150px; height: 200px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727272183928025218" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowCypcLG_4_jQ-aHQkUpzEES0shWNHc0KXL7UWtrKihbYxzoIlr7Ka4K-yfU-_yVjuflyEF329EQGzBbCMIgRTYLPCAtKQt1esO9wGtskIhQ_t9j6I-XOQHGWFESd-8gEpYZlCqNTVkc/s200/Easter+Egg.jpg" /></a>Photo 4: Large with 2 fried eggs, small comes with 1 fried egg</div><div> </div><div> To the lovely people I met at MoMa last week, here are the photos, I should have taken your details, sorry! These are all available at shop & MoMa this weekend. Please call on 0408970440 if you would like to reserve any.</div><div><br /><div></div></div></div></div>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-8047949842435474112012-03-21T08:43:00.005+11:002012-03-21T09:19:07.297+11:00Thing Two<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg77rQyvuqgzWi9QAO4ZrIuCAcdISqVlWMZIZjHsflenPXJbLSanoSB6sFgv2G_TtjWs7-gzcjlJL9S_BFZycT22JICVaIAlJcmnBb4EXq9Q4YtHPoiWK48JbDW3DQSdVCaxr2Ru26Fx7U/s1600/DSC_0490.JPG"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></a><div align="center"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 200px; height: 133px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722103889567165858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmKJh8eR6ZEY7Je1xgafRIg7Wcjt_Z9pj45m_fppMGlBsPCXQq2bqJc4pbkQfv6lH5OyzxnNCjZ0UZuxdyGZ_b6VxrPU2w9vE43-hr77_59y3Wt2_wA7Fg6CtqsMfS9tbNUc6vBOchpDw/s200/DSC_0524.JPG" /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Box by</span> <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Eirlysa Lawrence</strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span></strong> </div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><div align="left">And so. And so...We have our lovely new boxes, originally desinged by Richard Mitchell at Jumpshots in Hobart and sketched by Eirlysa Lawrence from Cobweb Designs in Cygnet. Printed by Flying Colours in Launceston. We have managed to keep it Tasmanian and rid ourselves of the burden of plastic inserts and gloss finishes. Now when you're finished enjoying our chocolates, you can use the box to light your next winter fire or take out the insert and give it to your 7-year-old, if you are lucky enough to have one, so he can store his Pokemon cards in it. Perfect sizes and everyone is happy.</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">As such, our boxes now come in sizes 6, 10 & 18.</div></span><div align="left"></div>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-77488032178286741392012-02-27T10:32:00.007+11:002012-02-27T10:58:11.814+11:00Exciting new things for our Shop<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQT8GgshxkE8YgxwGCsyLG_frZQy8R7KJUNqdhcZzjUZS97W9XuXuAkXCwDQb3LsQIcNZMqb7Oj4okx4glFP7zMqLfHVC0h4GGvjM9XxhEjnnYxj4xaJmvINZPjKjZleGZMcc-NKGMla8/s1600/Zokoko.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 200px; height: 150px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713591573975067602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQT8GgshxkE8YgxwGCsyLG_frZQy8R7KJUNqdhcZzjUZS97W9XuXuAkXCwDQb3LsQIcNZMqb7Oj4okx4glFP7zMqLfHVC0h4GGvjM9XxhEjnnYxj4xaJmvINZPjKjZleGZMcc-NKGMla8/s200/Zokoko.jpg" /></a></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Thing One</strong></span></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">The chocolate stork is bringing two exciting new things</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">We like these two things, Thing One & Thing Two</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">The first is Zokoko which will arrive this week</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">The second, our boxes all sparkly and new</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">I went to Zokoko in Emu Plains in Sydney last October with the hope of stocking their chocolate bars and other products in Cygneture. We made a decision to get past summer, to avoid the heat. I would have had it delivered last week but thought better of chancing delivery before our hot weekend and oooh, I think Zokoko (the goddess of chocolate) was on my side with 38 degrees each day! </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">A little bit of Zokoko:</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Zokoko makes chocolate from cacao bean to chocolate bar. They work directly with growers to import the finest quality beans and use vintage, artisan equipment and traditional methods to roast, mix and mould the chocolates in small batches.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">A little bit from me:</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">YUM! Worth waiting for and worth coming back for, again and again and again and again and.....</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">As for Thing Two, that's coming!</span></div><div align="left"> </div>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-23955092037977330062012-01-24T20:39:00.007+11:002012-01-25T14:08:44.143+11:00Are you glad you came?<span style="font-family:arial;">January, an interesting time of year for me. </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It all started back in 1975, January 31st. I was born.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I arrived in Sydney 20 years ago today. A week later was my first day in an Australian school. I caught my first wave on a boogie board that afternoon and three years later, I started dating my husband (late January). I started my last job in Sydney, that I really enjoyed, in January & left in January, 5 years later. I left because I moved to Cygnet, yes, again, in January, on the 18th. I took over the lease of our shop in January last year. So here I find myself, 20 years after stepping off the plane, with two beautiful children, a lovely man on my arm & happy as can be. </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Every year my mother asks me, 'are you glad you came?' This morning in my driveway, I messaged my sister with , 'are you glad you came?' From the time it took me to drive from my house to the post office, I got a message from hubby saying, "Kitty (mum) just rang to ask, 'are you glad you came?'" & in between I'd rung her to ask the same question & she told me how she had just rung my sister to ask her the same question & her reply was, "I was just thinking about that. 'Twas a momentous occasion. We left Ireland in -2 degrees and arrived in Sydney to 36 degrees. Am I glad I came?</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">Oh yes.</span>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-31745279103717833052012-01-02T15:22:00.002+11:002012-01-02T15:23:39.785+11:00New Bed<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1Y0mTUi-FjKl8a2CjQ79Abdqmxpa839ZTFeuSPQBuAH4vTOCNVHAmIEDh36IczW2mOLFcl3mtzWNUFRQrqANcZNhR5x4O-K0OpfrCRq7Pa9E_LcByJvENqGIzUT6niVhQbpKLKr0F5s/s1600/photo_Niamh.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692885449386659666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1Y0mTUi-FjKl8a2CjQ79Abdqmxpa839ZTFeuSPQBuAH4vTOCNVHAmIEDh36IczW2mOLFcl3mtzWNUFRQrqANcZNhR5x4O-K0OpfrCRq7Pa9E_LcByJvENqGIzUT6niVhQbpKLKr0F5s/s200/photo_Niamh.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div></div>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-25425061517825802302012-01-01T20:07:00.006+11:002012-01-01T20:45:18.202+11:00happy new yearResolutions begin<div>end of day one<div><div>1. give my daughter a new bed. Check. She's been sleeping on a fold out couch for about 6 months. Now she's in a purple paradise.</div><div>2. spend more time with the kids & less time at the shop. Spent all day at home today, first day in 3 weeks. Check. (At least until this weekend when we get hit with the Cygnet Folk Festival)</div><div>3. don't twitter while drinking. Check. Easy, I'll just blog instead & watch Rana take a few more wickets. You beauty. He's done it again</div><div>4. find out if Rana's married</div><div>5. if Rana is married, find out if Brett Geeves is. He's pretty funny.</div><div>6. remember I'm already married</div><div>7. and that my husband's a pretty nice guy</div><div>8. and the kids are just lovely too</div></div></div>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-77794108472216044732011-11-27T19:18:00.015+11:002011-11-28T06:41:31.279+11:00It's a big world out there<div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;">I'm discovering how small this world is, or perhaps it's not so small, rather it is just that many of the people I have met in Cygnet hail from the same areas of Sydney that I used to frequent. Take Giselle & Alex from the Lotus Eaters, they used to live in Marrickville, next suburb to us in St Peters. I often liken Mary Street, Cygnet to Marrickville Road, Sydney. Full of great food experiences, excellent delis, multi-national grocers and fruit & veg shops, with people happily looking at their destination across the road but forgetting to look for cars on the way.<br />Simon the Baker, at Yo-Yos Bakery next door to us, used to play in a band called 'Cult 45'. "'Cult 45', you say. That rings a bell. Hang on, did you rehearse at Troy Horse studios in Redfern?". "Yeeeaaahhh???" was Simon's curious & suspicious reply. "I used to work there, I thought the name was familiar, I reckon we've met before, about 15 years ago". Well I'll be.<br />And speaking of Sydney's inner west music scene, Nikki, who has worked with me for the past couple of years, is married to local Cygnet poet & playwright, Gary Hemmings, who also hails from Sydney. Gary & David (husband, father of two gorgeous sprogs, altogether cool-guy) as it turns out frequented the same Sydney pubs, gigs and nights-on-the-town for about 20 years prior to moving to Cygnet, unbeknownst to either of them One night in our lounge room they start piecing it all together and reminisce over their favourite nights out, "yeah, I went to see them, and them and them..I was there too....Landsdowne, Hopetoun, Sando, Annandale.... "</span></div><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7lQE2-pdTY-Yd55hnV1X4dBL5IYZjISdEwqoDkcnYpgmcvaPH4GzAJvA6g00bPHsE_m898x3lj5OIxAi8nec92XixUDS0HK5nsr077MchXOis0cfh7M7qN8O8qNXBVy-lTZxjLDhIGDs/s1600/Silk+Swan.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679599767948052322" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7lQE2-pdTY-Yd55hnV1X4dBL5IYZjISdEwqoDkcnYpgmcvaPH4GzAJvA6g00bPHsE_m898x3lj5OIxAi8nec92XixUDS0HK5nsr077MchXOis0cfh7M7qN8O8qNXBVy-lTZxjLDhIGDs/s200/Silk+Swan.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"> Silk Swan by G G Hemmings </span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I loved living in Sydney and now I love living in Cygnet. There is something about this little place on the bottom edge of the map. It's full of possibilities.</span></div>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-52049630063702745162011-09-14T17:27:00.012+10:002011-09-14T20:10:46.258+10:00Everyone's out of step except for my Johnny<div><span style="font-family:arial;">Oooh, it has been a while...an on-again-off-again love affair with this new shop of ours...dramas of my own making and some from others, just to keep me entertained. </span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqTLxM6ihWhQDjayn_VWPdOk8wZmmvmwEVgPidoeC5Nx5Mna97ty8jZnNYgPMGYdADBrxuYO_T9KQer2oyZzZav2k0RV9ZoFpY-wntpgfjq3TRtFmIwZGNNqPve5Pd5HU2FvlcrVCAUA/s1600/Camp+tove.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652135686666736354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqTLxM6ihWhQDjayn_VWPdOk8wZmmvmwEVgPidoeC5Nx5Mna97ty8jZnNYgPMGYdADBrxuYO_T9KQer2oyZzZav2k0RV9ZoFpY-wntpgfjq3TRtFmIwZGNNqPve5Pd5HU2FvlcrVCAUA/s200/Camp+tove.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>Very expensive induction hob stove with $20 camp stove<br /></strong></span></span><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I dutifully purchased an oven with an induction hob because it is the best thing for making chocolate etc. as it is so sensitive to temperature control. Great, cost a bit, but that's o.k. I'll be able to control the temperatures of caramels and honeycomb instead of them controlling me. Dum-dee-dum-dee-dum, something's wrong with my thermometer, buy another one, something's wrong with that one, borrow three, something's wrong with all of them...</span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;">My dad has a story and it goes like this; Johnny, not the brightest young man in town, comes back from the war and his doting mother gathers all of her friends and relations to watch as Johnny makes his triumphant return marching through the main street with his battalion and she pipes up, as proud and gloating as can be, "sure would you look at that, everyone's out of step except for my Johnny".</span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;">So, induction hobs work on magnetism. digital thermometers are magnetic, allowing them to pick up instant heat changes. Great, positive magnets are have opposite charges. Excellent, after much research I can buy a $780 induction thermometer or I can go to Bunnings and pick up a $20 gas stove thing with a $3 gas canister and bobs your uncle. </span></div></div>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-14391036827756851772011-07-17T19:45:00.005+10:002011-07-17T20:18:31.985+10:00The Nou Swear Word<span style="font-family:arial;">Well I'll be...</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">We had planned to make nougat for months, nuts at the ready, dried plums from my next door neighbour, Miellerie Blue Gum honey, local eggs (some from our chooks), excitement building, my beautiful Ferrari-red Kitchen Aid plugged in and looking brilliant, we were set. Two hours later, we had marshmallowy mess bubbling like a volcano out of the Kitchen Aid, our hands were burning with splashes of hot honey, nuts flying everywhere and the language was coming out of us at a rate of knots. Nougat will be no more, get it while you can. We're outsourcing it. I can't believe how little you get from so much effort, a bit like Shirley Valentine's description of sex, "there's a lot of pushing and shoving and you still come out with very little in the end". (sorry mum, if that's a bit rude)</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">Next stop nougatine, hot sugar syrup (176 degrees) added to roasted nuts and cocoa nibs, poured on to the table and Nikki and I whimpering and squealing with excitement, pain and panic as we ripped and rolled these DELICIOUS blobs of smokey nutty delight. Yummo, salted caramels move over, there's a new Sherriff in town. We'll have these with almond in milk chocolate and hazelnuts in dark. Yum-yum-diddy-yum-yum..........</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">It's competition season again, Tuesday will be mould spraying day, chocolate moulds sprayed with cocoa butter & food colouring, that is. Nikki, being an asthmatic, isn't allowed in. I, on the other hand, will be dressed up like a ghost buster with goggles, face mask, air compressor in hand and a cloud of cocoa butter filling the air. Plays havoc with my lungs, but my skin and hair will look and feel fantastic.</span>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-79995710925448219392011-06-12T17:03:00.018+10:002011-06-13T08:46:54.731+10:00A glass o' Jansz in me handz<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgy32I54rfIsxh070mxpeg-qmRVtIsZMdIwm2fWe5qvaX4HPsL0KBXNIVQyJelDcHhiCQuHqYnwyrkrNgU4Q0YutNaPRk9q6jdqnx397-1JgFVj-6KMT4ABqCYzi-0zZ_2jkH1XZghQB4/s1600/display+counter.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617241723870786354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgy32I54rfIsxh070mxpeg-qmRVtIsZMdIwm2fWe5qvaX4HPsL0KBXNIVQyJelDcHhiCQuHqYnwyrkrNgU4Q0YutNaPRk9q6jdqnx397-1JgFVj-6KMT4ABqCYzi-0zZ_2jkH1XZghQB4/s200/display+counter.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong> Display Counter </strong></span></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><div align="left"></span><span style="font-family:arial;">And so we have our counter, from Phoenix Creations, a couch, a shelving unit, from Southern Design Centre, a table and cushions from Cathy at Cygnet Market. It's all coming together, but now what do I fill this enormous space with???? </span></div><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;">Easter has been and gone, next year we will be making eggs from Christmas onwards though, crazy stuff.</span><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTqRMUv0DebrX8B0vF5Cuj3RclaoFshYctPCqbM4RsECBmVtcHP6G_uVThtx2xFJFzboSLDHt3b0jZ1B2Gxwx47a68bm-M2QbdM1B_rosmvyEbeWCjIV1zzHBacx05ATSgCxQ4XtyZmuU/s1600/Dark+Chocolate+Egg.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617241511779283906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTqRMUv0DebrX8B0vF5Cuj3RclaoFshYctPCqbM4RsECBmVtcHP6G_uVThtx2xFJFzboSLDHt3b0jZ1B2Gxwx47a68bm-M2QbdM1B_rosmvyEbeWCjIV1zzHBacx05ATSgCxQ4XtyZmuU/s200/Dark+Chocolate+Egg.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:arial;">Dark Chocolate Easter Egg<br /></span></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">Now I am waiting for the end of the financial year to splash out on more of everything! oooh! 90 minutes and too many chocolate sites later, my eyes are agog and my glass is empty.</span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">Must learn to concentrate on one thing at a time. Is it too late or too early for a New Year's Resolution? Or perhaps a New Financial Year's Resolution?????</span></p>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-67718252172026209622011-04-29T17:51:00.002+10:002011-04-29T18:05:04.648+10:00Old Mother Hubbard<span style="font-family:arial;">Old Mother Hubbard went to Cygneture to fetch her beloved some chocs</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">And when she got there, the shop was so bare and Gillian could do absolutely nothing about it.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">I now know that it takes at least a week to fill up the shop with enough chocolates to stop people looking at you like you are a chameleon, masquerading as a venue for purchase.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">"You are kidding me" is the most common expression, while this time that week, it was, "Wow! That's fantastic - amazing - great - how cute...how clever..." Holy cow Nikki, we've got nothing left........</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em>For anyone out there living in the Huon area, pick up a copy of the Huon News this week for a Cygneture voucher entitling you to 5% off Cygneture purchases of $10 + and 10% off purchases of $20 or more for Mother's Day.</em></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">I promise you, we are back to a full range of chocolates, although honeycomb is a bit low, but Nikki will be making amends for that tomorrow. ALL DAY.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">We also have my favourite chocolate up for grabs, which is the Rhubarb & Blue Gum. Yum, yum, ye-yum, yum ('tis the poet in me, trying to escape)</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811408122617701204.post-61352961500954963912011-04-13T15:13:00.004+10:002011-04-29T17:51:01.874+10:00Open for business<span style="font-family:arial;">So Sunday we had a little party to celebrate the kitchen and the opening of the shop. It was lovely. We are now open for business, but in a limited fashion at this stage. Our display units are pending, but we do have a couch and two lovely personalities to entertain you!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">Three weeks later: We now have three lovely personalities to entertain you. Young Nicole Fraser has joined the crew and will be in the shop on occasional weekends. Furniture still pending....</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span>Cygneture Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05315214703605670508noreply@blogger.com0