Autumn is here, and so are the cyclamen! Happy autumnal equinox, the beginning of my favourite season. 🌱

Wrapping up the day with the yearly s’more. 🔥

Enjoying the arrival of autumn with a very pumpkin-packed day! 🎃

Currently reading… #booksky

This week was busy and exhausting so I told myself I’d do almost nothing today and just relax. That lasted an hour before I got itchy and started decluttering the whole house. No regrets, only more space.

Taking official photos of my chocolates for the website is always tricky. They are so shiny you can always see reflections, and without fancy equipment it’s a game of trial and error. In this one, you can actually spot what a chocolate sees in the final moments before I eat it.

Thought the warm weather was over, but nope, it’s back. Hopefully just for today so I can get back into autumn mood.

This morning was like the rest of the week, spent preparing chocolates for the return of the chocolate boxes next week. And there are some delicious newcomers joining the collection. 👀

This morning was like the rest of the week, spent preparing chocolates for the return of the chocolate boxes next week. And there are some delicious newcomers joining the collection. 👀

Better late than never! The first ‘Myrtle’s Folly’ dahlia of the year has finally appeared. 🌱

Better late than never! The first ‘Myrtle’s Folly’ dahlia of the year has finally appeared. 🌱

Nom nom.

Good morning! I survived the dentist yesterday, my wallet didn’t. Another busy day ahead, and it looks like that’ll be the case for a while. Have a great day! 🫶🌱

It's Monday. You deserve some chocolate.

Sunset.

The irony of spending the morning making chocolate and the afternoon at the dentist.

Ramen tonight, perfect for a cosy Sunday evening. 🍜

More dahlias! Because one can never have enough. 🌱

The Greens could be polling at 90%, and we’d still only hear about Reform “surging” at 2%. The media isn’t just useless, it’s one of the main reasons so much in the world is going wrong.

My wife’s gran called today (she’s French and lives there) and said there were many rich Ukrainians at the place she visited yesterday. We asked how she knew they were rich Ukrainians, and she replied that they all had big cars with ‘UK’ on the licence plates. I can’t anymore… 😭

Between bursts of rain and flashes of sun every two minutes, the ‘Labyrinth’ dahlias are thriving! 🌱

Good morning! I love it when the sky goes dark and stormy but sunshine still breaks through. 🌱

It’s that time of the year again! Apple crêpes!

Heavy rain again! Trying to catch a gap in the showers to run to the post office before it’s too late for the last collection.

This was just what I needed to arrive home to today @jenkinsemporium.bsky.social @jeremyjenkins.net Both of these are so good, I had to open both and have a taste test! 🤤👌🏻

Behold, my pumpkin legion. We ride at dusk, and snack at dawn. 🍫

First choucroute of the season tonight! 🍜

The thunderstorm’s arrived, and I’m enjoying every moment.

It’s been a week since we launched our Autumn Chocolate Collection and it’s already bringing plenty of cosy vibes 🍂 Handmade in small batches with ethical, sustainable chocolate. Delicious, seasonal, and only here for autumn. 🍫✨

Not everything needs a moral statement. Sometimes the best option is simply silence.

So bad yet so good.

Now that the heat has finally eased off, I’ve been back at it this morning hand-painting chocolate moulds with coloured cocoa butter. It’s only been three months since I last did it, but it feels more like a year.

My Café au Lait dahlia is 99.9% lait, 0.1% café. 🌱

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

Homemade pizza makes Mondays less painful.

My to-do list today is so long I feel like I can’t even take a minute to breathe. Somehow I still found the time to come here and write this post to complain about it.

In case it flew under your radar: my autumnal chocolate bars are here. Small-batch, ethical, and dangerously tasty. 🍫🍂 I might have “sampled” a few while finishing the next batch… purely for quality control, of course. Grab one (or a thousand) while you can!

The prophecy is fulfilled: my dahlia ‘Crazy Love’ has been chosen by Ra to wield the light eternal. 🌱

Was cutting my wife’s fringe when the UK emergency test went off on my phone. Lucky I’ve got steady hands or she’d have ended up like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber.

The prophecy is fulfilled: my dahlia ‘Crazy Love’ has been chosen by Ra to wield the light eternal. 🌱

I found Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg. You just have to switch the facial expressions.

Met the mightiest duck in Reading yesterday. 🐥

Good morning! A Painted Lady visiting my ‘Wizard of Oz’ Dahlia. 🌱 Wishing you a lovely weekend!

Get them or get cursed. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. 🎃🍫 This isn’t a treat, it’s protection.

Quick little trip to Reading today, my first time there, and the weather was perfect.

You're talking to me?!

Now that I’ve experienced receiving short-dated ingredients from suppliers, I always email beforehand to ask for the best before dates of the products I’m about to order. Today one replied: ‘The BBD is as follows: 05/08/25.’ Not sure if I should laugh or cry…

A first wave of chocolate parcels shipped today (cat sticky notes not included). More will ship tomorrow. Maybe yours is in this stack 👀

A brief bit of sunshine on the dahlias. At least with all this rain, the watering is taken care of. 🌱

A brief bit of sunshine on the dahlias. At least with all this rain, the watering is taken care of. 🌱