No Longer Quite So Minted

Today's image is definitely of the emergency variety. We really have made a sizeable dent in all the festive food and treats - chocolates, biscuits, crisps, sausage rolls, mince pies (at least the sausage rolls and mince pies were homemade), party food and, as you can see in today's shot, mints. I don't feel in the slightest bit guilty about it as surely if there's one time in the year when you can indulge yourself this is it! Although I think it has been exacerbated this year due to our Covid misfortunes - there's been a lot more sitting in front of the TV munching on what is available, quite literally, to hand!
Talking of TV I've got another recommendation - Killing Sherlock (you can find it on the BBC iPlayer). It follows the historian, and lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan, Lucy Worsley (our just "The Worsley" as we call her in this household) as she investigates the extraordinary love-hate relationship between Holmes and the complex man who created him, Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in the world, featuring in more than sixty original stories and countless adaptations. For more than a century he's intrigued and excited his fans with his intellect and powers of deduction. He made his author rich and famous but the writer came late to his fictional character.
The series follows Doyle from Sherlock's origins in his early life as a medical student, unpicking the early stories revealing the dark underbelly of late Victorian Britain, from drug use to true crime, and traces his growing disenchantment with his detective, which would lead to one of the most famous deaths in literature.
It then covers his life after he killed off Sherlock - how he became a spokesman for British imperialism, was desperate to fight for his country, became involved in trying to solve real-life mysteries himself and why he turned into a passionate advocate for spiritualism, which put him at odds with his readers, following the death of his son Kingsley. It explains why he finally relented and brought back Holmes from the dead and how Sherlock would take on a life of his own. A fascinating and engrossing watch.