Saturday 19 September - flowers and chocolate

 This rose is what I see every morning when I open the front door.  It is called Iceberg and my mother gave it to us when we moved here 20 years ago.  It flowers all summer and well into the autumn, often only giving up at Christmas.  It's a great sight to be greeted by.
I had an early start for the hospital this morning, catching a lift with my neigbour to arrive around 09:30.  Today's treatment was two units of blood which took 3 hours and the chemo which took 10 minutes!  Out of the hospital just after 2:30pm.

The rest of the afternoon was given over to floral pursuits - carrying some stuff down to the church for Andrew and his mother to produce this lovely floral display for the Harvest Festival in church tomorrow.  They are very clever - my contribution was to admire and sweep up thebits afterwards!
Dinner is roast chicken with a baked potato, carrots and greens, preceded I hope by avocado.

Here is the chocolate from the title.  Totally unexpectedly a parcel arrived yesterday from an ex-colleague, Damian Eads, now in California.  It contained a dark chocolate tasting kit from Dandelion who make single-bean chocolate.  The chocolate was mind-blowingly good, thank you Damian!  I woud never have believed how different 3 bars of chocolate could taste and the lemon flavour in the 3rd one was my absolute favourite.  What a treat!