Nothing says “Thank You” like a box of chocolates. Nor “I Love You” or even a simple “Ta matey”. These little chocolate morsels pictured here just happen to be from Hotel Chocolat. In lieu of you actually popping round my place over the festive season for a chocolate please take this photo as a virtual Thank You – for reading Spittoon, SpittoonExtra and/or The FoodieList viewing my photographs and my scribbles elsewhere, commenting, criticising and keeping the enthusiasm going, for writing your own blogs and for the photographs. Oh the photographs! It is a Thank You to all so I won’t pick out individuals (for you know who you are anyway). Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

You are of course more than welcome to ‘pop round’ although remember that the white chocolate in the photo (a Christmas Mess – “Upliftingly fruity mousse, made with white chocolate and lots of strawberry and raspberry and finished with crushed meringue and strawberry pieces”) is mine. I ain’t that generous!