Perusing other bloggers sites; enjoyable and feels oddly akin to facebook stalking. Does come with some suprising consequences though...

OH, HONESTLY.
Christmas is creeping ever closer with its deadly serious promise of heavy cream (does what it says on the tin, doesen't it?) and trifle exposure and then I stumble across something as I-have-to-make-it-NOW-ish as this: Roasted Pear and Chocolate Chunk Scones. Smitten Kitchen, you had me at 'chunk'.