House Clean - Scales

Lime and grimes are some of the biggest problems in the house.  A lot of people thin vinegar is the solution.  It is a solution, but not the solution.

I know to clean grout with toothpaste, but toothpaste is alkaline after all, effective on whitening, especially those containing baking soda, but not effective on scales.

There is no easy way to deal with scales.  Regular application of descaler / acid, would be your best bet.

House Cleaning

House cleaning is painful but essential.  I helped Sarah for a bit of Autumn cleaning.  Sarah has an assortment of cleaning products.  These days, if you buy decent cleaning products and apply liberally, it should ease the cleaning process, and we did, and they worked.  Chemicals, the ways forward.

Heilemann 85% Cacao

One of the fancier chocolates I got from Dusseldorf.  The chocolate tastes very similar to my favourite Michel Cluizel 85%, very smooth besides much fruitier, less aromatic.  At the same time, much cheaper than Michel Cluizel.  I shall try more Heilemann!

Whiny Saleperson

Apparently, other than sweet talking, pretending interested and keen to help, there is another type of saleperson, the whiny type of saleperson.
The saleperson, who whines about how they are disappointed that we were not buying from them.  The saleperson, who would say we made a wrong choice because we were not understanding how brilliant they were.

Surprised by Cream Horn

I was expecting cream and horn in a cream horn, then I was surprised by the jam at the bottom.  Ill!

Ryeburn of Helmsley

We spent a day in York, and there were loads of ice-cream parlours.  A number of stands sell Yorkshire real dairy ice-cream.  After much deliberation, we settled with Ryeburn of Helmsley at Chocolate Museum.

I settled with Vanilla and Cappuccino, and Sarah had Rum and Raisins.  The vanilla looked better than those of Sant' Angelo's.  Rum and raisins could do with more raisins.  All ice-cream has a lovely dairy ice-cream base, and the flavours are more like a hint.

I suppose the hint lets the dairy ice-cream to stand out and shine.  Lovely ice-cream, but if I knew they 'all taste the same', I would have just got one scoop.

Sant Angelo Ice-cream Parlour

I have eaten at Sant Angelo twice before, but I had not been to the ice-cream Parlour.  Sarah is so proud of Madison's, so I was determined to show off the ice-cream parlours of the greater Yorkshire.

Wetherby is not a big town, and summer peak season is gone, some ice-cream looks untouched for weeks and sad.  We were impressed by their range of flavours, kiwi, pistachio, mango.  After some deliberation, we settled with a chocolate and hazelnut sundae.  The ice-cream is lovely.  The hazelnut ice-cream is nutty and delicate.  Chocolate ice-cream is chocolaty.  The coffee ice-cream was exceedingly strong, filtered coffee flavour, I was wide awake after I had it.

There isn't much in Wetherby, but I am quite impressed with Sant Angelo's ice-cream's quality, and their presentation.  We will definitely go again.