At the end of this post is an offer you might want to accept.
If you’ve been following the poignant saga of my quest to receive some chocolate, you’ll know that I submitted two entries to Nicola Morgan’s Hotel Chocolat Halloween Competition and waited patiently for the results (while trying to decide between the two people competing to be my nominees, only to find that I hadn’t won, although I did get very close.
But that wasn’t the end of the story. Nearly a month ago, a lovely lady called Teresa Stenson offered to do this thing that some people call, “Pay it forward.” Teresa called that a painful expression and I tend to agree. She called it a “Random act of kindness,” which sounds better.
So, for a change, I put aside all doubts and put my name down to receive something from Teresa, and today I discovered a little package in our letter
box. Opening it, I found a box of four chocolates from Hotel Chocolat – the very same Hotel Chocolat that provided the prizes for that competition. This was better than winning the prize, because Hotel Chocolat wouldn’t have sent the chocolate out of the UK, but Teresa did. She also sent a beautiful card with a personal message on it.
I rushed up to my computer (with the chocolates of course – I couldn’t let them out of my sight), thanked Teresa while keeping one eye on the chocolates, and began sampling the chocolates. Chocolate brownie, butterscotch ganache with shortbread biscuit, Amarena cherry suspended in Amaretto buttercream and praline with crispy pancake. Each of them was soft, creamy, and delicious. And they came at a great time for me, soon after my first publication.
Thank you, Teresa, for that lovely act of kindness.
And now for my part. This is how it works: the first three people who comment on here will receive something lovely from me. Each of them has to promise to send something lovely to three other people – not necessarily via a blog. That’s all. So who are those three people going to be? Come on – don’t be shy. I wasn’t.
Miriam Drori, Author 
7 replies on “A happy end to my chocolate story”
I’ll do it, Miriam. It’s about time I did something nice for others.
Glad you liked the chocolates. Thye’re some of the best the UK has to offer at the moment.
Stephen
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Ah, really glad you like them, Miriam. Hope you have fun randomly acting kindly to whoever signs up! (This comment isn’t me signing up. Seems there are 2 more places – come one people, jump in…)
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Sounds good. I try to be nice to people with no special reason and don’t expect anything in return. It just makes me feel good.
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That’s good. Unless you need to be nice to people in order to feel good. (Not that I think that’s true about you.) Does this mean you want to join in?
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Hey Miriam,
This is lovely! I do random acts of kindness every now and then (randomly, you might say..!), just when the fancy takes me, and I call it ‘Spreading the love,’ I especially like to do it anonymously – buying a book for a friend and sending it to them with no note, for example, then watching them trying to figure out who it’s from, before they just give up and enjoy it (which is the point, isn’t it?).
Just to be clear, I’m not signing up to receive anything, your words are enough, I just wanted to say hey, and have fun spreading this love! xx
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I’m so glad to hear what happened – don’t funny, coincidental things happen sometimes! I know I’m not in the first three, but I wanted to cheer anyway
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Actually, there were only two, so you’re welcome to be one of the three if you want to. Let me know.
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