Hot chocolate, all aboard and gardens.

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1. I like making hot chocolate that you have to stir and stir. One moment it is the consistency of milk, the next it is thick and nourishing and must be served that second.

2. The sound of a steam train's whistle.

3. Large gardens with secret woodlandy bits and concealed statues and hidden ponds.

Comments

  1. chrisTuesday, August 16, 2005

    The north

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  2. ClareTuesday, August 16, 2005

    The north of what? Or just north generally as a direction? I like those signs on the A1 that say 'The North'. It makes a journey seem very romantic.

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  3. UnknownTuesday, August 16, 2005

    Hot chocolate used to be and to some extent still is much consumed in Spain. There were "chocolaterias" in the big cities, especially Madrid, rather the equivalent of coffee shops in Eighteenth Century London. A few years ago I brought back from Spain an earthernware pot with a lid and hole in it. A special tool with a sort of paddle at the end goes through the hole, and you rotate it rapidly between the palms of your hands when the chocolate and water inside has heated up. The chocolate froths and as you say should be drunk immediately. You buy the drinking chocolate in big chunky bars which you break up to disolve.

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