The Keeper of the Chocolates

I am the self appointed keeper of the Christmas chocolates. This box of luxury chocolates is an online present from the Elgin family and must be guarded against greedy excesses.

If it were left to His Lordship we would have scoffed the lot in a one night binge, but I have been endowed with the restraint gene otherwise known as self control and have seen fit to limit consumption to 2 each per night. Should this seem unnecessarily harsh, I argue that it is a 2 pronged attack on diabetes and obesity given the other Christmas goodies readily available.

With the sun shining and the temperature well into double figures, we walked back to the old castle neighbourhood to deliver Christmas cards and inspect our ex next door neighbour’s new loft conversion, which got all the ooohs and aaahs we could muster.

I am enjoying the day off from worrying about menus, time schedules and wonky boilers. Time enough for that tomorrow.