I was looking back to see when it was started...six months the poor thread has been around, and then it gets left languishing for over a week.  *cue "it were different in my day" reminiscences regarding LPTs that pretty much came and went while I was cooking dinner*.

 I spent a lot of Christmas Eve watching North and South and got Pride and Prejudice on DVD as a gift (to replace my video tape version, oh yes) so I could really be doing with a waistcoat-and-hat-wearing, never-to-be-addressed-by-first-name hero. To return to the topic, did anyone get anything in their Keane stockings?   Can we have a ...

 Fifteen men on the dead man's chest?

 Christmas Eve winning.

 Yes, I like to stand in Sainsbury's and contemplate all the colours and choose which one to try next.  I usually stick with the tried and tested favourites, but I have this lovely idea in my head of one day going a bit mad and buying one of each and having a whole rainbow of chocolate

[quote user="Mr D"]SNAP! She saw a 'sea salt' bar of Green & Blacks at the checkout yesterday and grabbed one for herself.[/quote]  I approve of this chocolate.  It looked like a weird idea, but I bought one anyway in the interests of science and investigation and all that, and it turned out to be surprisingly ...

 Unfortunately some ugly ogres people were not content with shaking their fists at the sky and decided to show their displeasure by setting a wheelie bin and some other bits and pieces alight in the middle of the road, leaving a billowing crater.

  Back to the time when we owned this town, in fact.

 The FD and hugies? We really are going back a while now! Unfortunately there is some Black Burning Heart road outside so I may be a little distracted...

 How's Santa now? Thorntons was all sold out of little chocolate Santas, very sad.