desserts - Jem – UK blogger

13th September, 2020 | Recipe

Double Chocolate Raspberry Ripple Brownies

Sumptious double chocolate brownies with fresh raspberries and a fruity raspberry swirl.

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I looked out of my window at 18:15 at the pouring

I looked out of my window at 18:15 at the pouring rain and was so incredibly tempted to say 'sod it' and stay home. Glad I didn't, this was one of the best runs I've had in ages.

Made it out to pole this evening. I can't remember

Made it out to pole this evening. I can't remember what this was called, all I can remember is penis pasta and spready teddy. Don't ask 🤷‍♀️ Big thanks to @sabrina_poles who has endless patience for my arsing about in pole class 🤣 Almost look like I know what I'm doing in this one (pissing myself laughing mind you)

Big ol' bowl of self-pity soup to try and clear my

Big ol' bowl of self-pity soup to try and clear my cloudy head. 🤧 This is approximately 90% garlic.

Considering I rely on my internet presence (as a f

Considering I rely on my internet presence (as a freelancer) to survive, I do a crap job of marketing myself. Anyway, here's one of my recent WordPress builds - bespoke theme built on the new Gutenberg editor & heavily customised WooCommerce integration. Let's pretend I'm a professional for a minute and then we can go back to gurning selfies. 🥳 Those aren't my hands btw - thank goodness for mock-up PSDs. (If you don't know what that is, just smile and nod.)

Didn't want to run tonight as the kids have given

Didn't want to run tonight as the kids have given me their cold, but I also didn't want to stay home and listen to my 10 year old moan about her brother, so... (Nice round step count instead of my face because 🤧)

Double chocolate raspberry ripple brownie, served

Double chocolate raspberry ripple brownie, served warm with vanilla ice cream. I'll have to blog the recipe for these, they are absolutely divine 😍

Bit of active recovery this morning to free up my

Bit of active recovery this morning to free up my rock hard hamstrings. 😬 Absolutely gorgeous morning for it! ☀️

What's this, Actual Lifting Videos? The spreadshee

What's this, Actual Lifting Videos? The spreadsheet of doom had squats at 85% and 2 X 1RM for deadlifts this morning. Squats were nothing to write home about, and I wasn't expecting the deadlifts to amount to much either because I've not consistently deadlifted since prior to lockdown. Vid one was 100kg going up nicely and vid two, the grrrrinder of a rep, was supposed to be 110kg, and it wasn't until I unloaded that I realised it was 120kg 🤦‍♀️ My 1RM pre-lockdown was 127.5kg so to just about make 120 after a full week of training was a nice surprise. (Apols for the shit angles 😂)