Unlikely? Well, I enjoy weight lifting as well, but not olympic powerlifting. Just regular weight lifting at the gym. Actually, I had a great momentum going until the summer hit, at which time I was forced to cease suddenly. Ever since, it’s been difficult to get a regular routine going again, but I’m trying like crazy! Working on a graduate degree kind of gets in the way.

[:D] Whatever works to make more room for chocolate! Do exercize as well, every morning.
Apart from that most exiting for me is art – for love and for money, but art in loads, and in many forms.
Like to have friend’s dog to stay over, brisk walks, going out, fast drive and cold sea swim.

I also do some brewing, although I have never made a wine from grapes.

I have done several style of beer, mead, and hard cider.

Chocolate making is a hobby for me rather than work – I don’t think there is anything more relaxing than working with melted chocolate :-) Due to my sweet-tooth, I also do a lot of exercising – I really enjoy running, mountain biking and the odd bit of gym work. When I go holidaying, I also like to stay near the beach as I really enjoy snorkelling (and have had several poor attempts at underwater photography).

I am always researching chocolate. When I am not doing something chocolate related I am busy with my kids. I think tomorrow we will make marshmallow!! And yes, exercising!!

I’m a geek. Anything computer related (except games & graphic arts) gets my attention.

After closing our chocolate business last year due to a move, I spent the time gained building a chocolate review site. At first it was just for me, then I decided to make it live. Definitely not set to compete with 70%, just a place to review anything chocolate from bars to bon bons. Some may have seen it already but it you haven’t, take a look: http://www.MyChocolateJournal.com

I am also into chip carving, but chocolate has been holding too much of my time for that. :-)

Patrick Sikes
P.S. I Love You Fine Chocolates
http://www.psiloveyouchocolates.com

Patrick posted one year ago Deb.[;)]

“Porcelana: The Holy Grail of Pure Criollos” (Maricel E. Presilla)

Sounds gloomy but investigating really old churches!

marcelllus, im not so much into old churches but i cant stay away from old graveyards. i just found a head stone recently that had my dads, my uncles and my grandads names on it – the spooky thing is that it was almost 200 years old! found out that they were ancestors of mine

i have been fastinated with the old graveyard in my home town since i was a child. my sister had a club called the graveyard gang when we were in primary school. we used to take photos and rubbings of all the headstones but i only came across our family one this year when my dad died in june. the first surname on the headstone has a different spelling but same pronounciation as how we spell it now and all the other names (i think there are over 6 people in the one grave) use the same spelling as we do. so somewhere along the line they changed it and i would love to find out why. part of the graveyard is sheltered by the ruins of an old church so on one side the gravestones are in pretty good nick, you can read some dates from the 1700s. my 90 year old granny is still alive and she has been able to name the last four generations on her side. hopefully i will get around to doing the family tree someday soon while her knowledge is still about. do you know of any good sites for doing family trees?