I’m challenging myself to get as much as possible done from my to-do list today, including running a bunch of errands in town. New baking “paper” (is there a word for the reusable kind?), embroidery yarn, knitting yarn and knitting needles, and chocolate.
I’m more and more disappointed with what used to be my favourite specialist chocolate shop. First they ran out of my favourite kind of chocolate, at least a year ago, or has it been two years already? They kept promising that it would be back in stock soon. It still isn’t. I tried an alternative, and now they don’t have that one in stock either. In fact the shelves were more empty than full today. “Well, we just came back from our summer break” was their explanation. Maybe spend some time actually getting ready to open, then?
Later I remembered that there is a Chokladfabriken store near the knitting store and went there. They make excellent pralines, but they don’t have much in the way of chocolate tablets. I got something, at least. And they offered free tasting portions of hot chocolate (delicious) and they sold ice cream, including a lemon and ginger sorbet (also delicious) which did a lot to alleviate my disappointment.
I walked through the churchyard of Katarinakyrkan on my way back across Södermalm towards the train station, and stopped to finish my ice cream there. I happened to be standing right next to the church when the bells rang for five o’clock.