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From one hard cheese to the next - you better watch your heads as the next cheese is being lobbed into your towers!Cornish Yarg
Cornish Yarg gets its name from the original cheese maker, Alan Gray which is actually Yarg spelt backwards. He reportedly found the recipe from 1615 in his attic and sold it to a nearby farm in 1984. It is made from cow's milk and wrapped in edible stinging nettles.
The ideal Cornish Yarg nettle leaf is young, vibrantly green and larger than average. Cornish Yarg is a semi-hard cheese. The cheese's delicately earthy rind gives way to a buttery breakdown and crumbly core, with notes of lemon and yoghurt.
From one hard cheese to the next - you better watch your heads as the next cheese is being lobbed into your towers!Cornish Yarg
Cornish Yarg gets its name from the original cheese maker, Alan Gray which is actually Yarg spelt backwards. He reportedly found the recipe from 1615 in his attic and sold it to a nearby farm in 1984. It is made from cow's milk and wrapped in edible stinging nettles.
The ideal Cornish Yarg nettle leaf is young, vibrantly green and larger than average. Cornish Yarg is a semi-hard cheese. The cheese's delicately earthy rind gives way to a buttery breakdown and crumbly core, with notes of lemon and yoghurt.
From one hard cheese to the next - you better watch your heads as the next cheese is being lobbed into your towers!Cornish Yarg
Cornish Yarg gets its name from the original cheese maker, Alan Gray which is actually Yarg spelt backwards. He reportedly found the recipe from 1615 in his attic and sold it to a nearby farm in 1984. It is made from cow's milk and wrapped in edible stinging nettles.
The ideal Cornish Yarg nettle leaf is young, vibrantly green and larger than average. Cornish Yarg is a semi-hard cheese. The cheese's delicately earthy rind gives way to a buttery breakdown and crumbly core, with notes of lemon and yoghurt.
From one hard cheese to the next - you better watch your heads as the next cheese is being lobbed into your towers!Cornish Yarg
Cornish Yarg gets its name from the original cheese maker, Alan Gray which is actually Yarg spelt backwards. He reportedly found the recipe from 1615 in his attic and sold it to a nearby farm in 1984. It is made from cow's milk and wrapped in edible stinging nettles.
The ideal Cornish Yarg nettle leaf is young, vibrantly green and larger than average. Cornish Yarg is a semi-hard cheese. The cheese's delicately earthy rind gives way to a buttery breakdown and crumbly core, with notes of lemon and yoghurt.
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How to Participate:The Audiobook Challenge is designed to not only help you to read your audiobooks, but to also find out about other great audiobooks from other challenge participants!
Though you may pop in/out at any time, the Audiobook Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.
There are no minimum page requirements, and you can read abridged or unabridged audiobooks!
1. At the beginning of the month, post :
a: How many audiobooks in total you want to read for the month
b: How many audiobooks in the monthly category you want to read
c: Post the audiobooks (as you decide on them) by linking them to Goodreads in your post
2. During the month, read the audiobooks that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)
3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s) - note: can only be linked to Goodreads and not an external site
c: How many audiobooks you have read for this challenge this year
Then start a new post for the next month!
FORMAT YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE:
Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read:
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:
Books in category:
FINISHED
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read:
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
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EXAMPLE : (under spoiler)(view spoiler)
~ Monthly Audiobook Challenge ~
Each month we will have a different theme of audiobook for you to listen to.
Read one, two, three, or thirty. Up to you! Just post at the start of the month which books you will read in the category, update through the month and post a link to your Goodreads review (no links to external sites).
Let's find some great audiobooks together!
Duration: Monthly
August 2025 Theme:
◈ Is it an oldie AND a goodie?
Listen to an audiobook which has been on your TBR for more than 2 years
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Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge
Duration: Monthly
How to Participate:
The NetGalley Challenge is designed to not only get you to read your NetGalley books, but to also advertise your reviews for others to see because after all, that's what NetGalley is all about.
Though you may pop in/out at any time, the NetGalley Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.
1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
b: What books are on your NG shelf
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is
2. During the month, read the NetGalley books that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)
3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s)**
c: Your updated shelf count
d: Your updated books to read
e: Your updated ratio
Then start a new post for the next month!
**When linking your reviews, please link only to the book(s) here at GoodReads. At this time, linking to a personal blog is not allowed. Thank you!
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Please nominate an Adult Fiction or a Non Fiction book that you would like to read in the month of October 2025.Nominations will be open until 27 August, UK evening
***Please pay special attention to the Rules and Guidelines listed below.***
Rules and Guidelines
1. Books nominated after the deadline will not be included in the polls. Sorry.
2. Each person is limited to nominating ONE book per category.
3. Please use the add book/author tool located at the top of the comment box when nominating a book. (Please make your nomination clear because side conversations do happen and we don't want to accidentally miss a nomination)
4. Please add the Goodreads synopsis for the book you nominate; optionally you can include a reason why we should read your nomination.
5. Books that were read as a past BOM will not be considered for the poll. (link to the sheet under the spoiler (view spoiler))
6. Books that are #2 or higher in a series will only be considered if all earlier books in the series have been a past BOM.
7. Books must be published at the time of nomination.
8. If your book is successful in being picked as the BOM you are expected to actively participate in the discussion. This will include writing a set of DQs as well as engaging in conversations.
Also, please be aware of your nomination's genre and list them in the appropriate BOM category.
Genres that DO NOT go here:
Young Adult
Middle Grade / Children's
Erotica
The BOM nominations are for our members to nominate a book they are truly interested in and have no affiliation with. Promotional activity is NOT permitted and nominations that the Moderators perceive to be promotional will be deleted without warning
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Theme Book Of the Month
October is a traditionally wet and miserable month (in Northern Europe at least), so this October we are escaping to the desert, for the opposite extremes. Maybe the tales you nominate, set in deserts ranging from the classic hot sand dunes of the Sahara to the cold dry Atacama Desert or even the polar desert of Antarctica, will remind us to be grateful for the rain and reasonable temperatures!
Nominations will be open until 27 August, UK evening
***Please pay special attention to the Rules and Guidelines listed below.***
Rules and Guidelines
1. Books nominated after the deadline will not be included in the polls. Sorry.
2. Each person is limited to nominating ONE book per category.
3. Please use the add book/author tool located at the top of the comment box when nominating a book. (Please make your nomination clear because side conversations do happen and we don't want to accidentally miss a nomination)
4. Please add the Goodreads synopsis for the book you nominate; you should also include an explanation of how it fits the theme for the month.
5. Books that were read as a past BOM will not be considered for the poll. (link to the sheet under the spoiler (view spoiler))
6. Books that are #2 or higher in a series will only be considered if all earlier books in the series have been a past BOM.
7. Books must be published at the time of nomination.
8. If your book is successful in being picked as the BOM you are expected to actively participate in the discussion. This will include writing a set of DQs as well as engaging in conversations.
The BOM nominations are for our members to nominate a book they are truly interested in and have no affiliation with. Promotional activity is NOT permitted and nominations that the Moderators perceive to be promotional will be deleted without warning
Jul 30, 2025 02:58AM
Days have been assigned - you know the drill - if you can't do it then a listed back up can cover, otherwise we move to the next team :)
Inspired by the World Wheel, the mods decided to spread the Mexican vibes far and wide with a new cheese for all!Monterey Jack
Monterey Jack originated in the Mexican Franciscan friars of Monterey, California. Around the 1700s, these monasteries around the Monterey region were making a semi-firm, creamy, mild-flavoured cheese from cow’s milk which was aged for a short period.
The high fat and moisture content in this California-born, semi-hard cheese helps it melt more smoothly than an ice cream cone in Death Valley, yet the mild flavour of this mild and creamy white cheese won't get in the way of other ingredients.
Inspired by the World Wheel, the mods decided to spread the Mexican vibes far and wide with a new cheese for all!Monterey Jack
Monterey Jack originated in the Mexican Franciscan friars of Monterey, California. Around the 1700s, these monasteries around the Monterey region were making a semi-firm, creamy, mild-flavoured cheese from cow’s milk which was aged for a short period.
The high fat and moisture content in this California-born, semi-hard cheese helps it melt more smoothly than an ice cream cone in Death Valley, yet the mild flavour of this mild and creamy white cheese won't get in the way of other ingredients.
Inspired by the World Wheel, the mods decided to spread the Mexican vibes far and wide with a new cheese for all!Monterey Jack
Monterey Jack originated in the Mexican Franciscan friars of Monterey, California. Around the 1700s, these monasteries around the Monterey region were making a semi-firm, creamy, mild-flavoured cheese from cow’s milk which was aged for a short period.
The high fat and moisture content in this California-born, semi-hard cheese helps it melt more smoothly than an ice cream cone in Death Valley, yet the mild flavour of this mild and creamy white cheese won't get in the way of other ingredients.
Inspired by the World Wheel, the mods decided to spread the Mexican vibes far and wide with a new cheese for all!Monterey Jack
Monterey Jack originated in the Mexican Franciscan friars of Monterey, California. Around the 1700s, these monasteries around the Monterey region were making a semi-firm, creamy, mild-flavoured cheese from cow’s milk which was aged for a short period.
The high fat and moisture content in this California-born, semi-hard cheese helps it melt more smoothly than an ice cream cone in Death Valley, yet the mild flavour of this mild and creamy white cheese won't get in the way of other ingredients.
