OK, last plead... for now...

(Photos from last year.)

OK, call me cranky and childishly impatient, but spring, where art thou?!

Outside, the wind is so strong, it sounds like some parts of our house might soon be roofless. 

Inside, I am playing "artisan chocolatier" and experimenting making small pralines. And no, for those of you who may wonder, I look nothing like Juliette Binoche ( in the film Chocolat), and no matter how hard I try to will him to appear on my doorstep, Johnny Depp is a no-show...

But the pralines are coming together, 

and I think they may possibly make a guest star blog appearance soon...

But please, spring, please come soon, 

before I praline myself into a circular sugar blob...

Wishing you all a lovely weekend,

 and a particularly warm hug to my readers in north-east America, 

where Mr Winter seems to be holding you hostage in an unusually chilly grip!

Helena