Baked chocolate cheesecake

https://www.philadelphia.co.uk/Recipes/Baked-Chocolate-Cheesecake?r=12

Christmas 2014

The supermarket music is really turned up this time of year. I think that it's a kind of social experiment in which the customer is put under intense psychological pressure to the tune of jingle bells at high volume. Let's see who breaks first?

"Are you listening to me? I look into your eyes and I can't tell if you're getting anything I'm saying"

- Fantastic Mr Fox

"I can't bear professional Scotsmen"
- Alastair Sim

We were in the supermarket last night getting most of the Christmas food shopping purchased. It was pretty busy.

One enormously muscled old age pensioner (wearing an improbably tight polo shirt and barely able to walk) was belligerently ripping packets of cake open and chewing on the contents... Quite openly stealing without any regard for his criminality or the fact that he could easily have been arrested.

His geriatric female partner looked like an off-duty prostitute with her white stilettos, bruised bare legs, micro skirt, full face make-up and cropped white fake fur bolero jacket. A slice of the North East.

Nicolas de Valer

My husband's paternal family hail from France. The French spelling of his name is Nicolas de Valer.

The family motto is "This is the fruit of valour." Valour means personal courage, particularly in combat and was originally from Latin (valor) and then Old French (valere - to be strong).

Nicholas/Nicolas is Greek and means 'victory of the people'. Apt name for a martial arts instructor?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Sim