• Suw puts the Chocolate in Chocolate and Vodka.

Lots of information and history on chocolate - interesting stuff, and real dark chocolate is surprisingly good for you. Hmm. Time for a bit of a health kick - where did we put those chocolate bars we bought yestereay?

My grandma died recently. She'd had a good life, and she was ready to go, so it didn't come as too much of a surprise, or too upsetting. Her funeral service was at the homestead where she's been living for the last years of her life, with the advantage of being run by a minister who clearly actually knew her. He did a very nice ceremony, with lots of anecdotes, and not doing the usual thing of pretending she was perfect.

He talked of her love of word puzzles, and words and language in general, and how, by way of a competition, she was responsible, as everyone there probably knew, for one of the best known advertising slogans in the UK.

Neither Sam nor I had ever been told, so imagine our amazement in the middle of the funeral to learn that my grandma was the one who created the slogan...

• A Mars A Day Helps You Work, Rest and Play

She saved one last big surprise for us there. The story...

Well, ok, it's really just a chocolate cup cake on a Hello Kitty napkin, but this is pretty much what it would look like if Hello Kitty kicked poo at your face. She wouldn't do that sort of thing, though, it would be far too unkind.