Chocolate and Morals

 

A brief catch up on today...as you know Sunday's are pretty much the same in our household, with church starting and ending the day.

We still had eight for dinner, but "swapped" our usual three students for a close friend, her son and her mum.

 We had the usual roast, followed by apple and mincemeat flapjack, and something a little lighter, orange mousse.

Its so easy to make, whisking up a tin of evaporated milk then adding about half a pint of jelly.

I hadn't really put much thought into decorating it and was just going to serve it as it was, but this morning felt it looked a little lack lustre.

I suddenly remembered I had some Terry's Chocolate Orange bought on offer a while back and also remembered my friend had a funny story to tell about a Terry's orange, so I decided it was quite appropriate.

Her story was, she has no willpower when it comes to chocolate ( who has!) whereas her husband did.

She discovered one day he had a Terry's Orange unopened in his wardrobe, left over from Christmas.

One day, feeling "in the mood for chocolate" ( we've all had days like that!) she thought...

"If I just take one slice....he will never notice"

So,one slice she took.

Of course you can probably guess how the story continues...one slice one day, became another slice another day, and whilst initially it was easy enough to hide the missing slice....as the orange got smaller and smaller, there was no hiding the fact she had been indulging in something she shouldn't have!

It was at the time when Christmas was the only time the oranges were available, so there was no opportunity to replace it, she just had to come clean.

She has often retold this story to her own children, and others too....

...and the moral of the story is of course...

find a husband who will give you his last chocolate orange

give up chocolate

don't poke around in your husbands wardrobe

make a prenuptials agreement, all chocolate to be shared unless its yours

...be sure your sins will find you out!

 

Well we certainly had a good laugh at the story today, and of course were able to indulge in a sin free chocolate (sadly not syn free!)

To be honest...I am not a lover of Terry's chocolate, and particularly the oranges, but I did give one a go and it wasn't as bad as I remembered it being.

 

 

When our visitors left it was the usual game of Scrabble for Grandma, with Teen One being crowned winner today.

 

Tomorrow we are going to London for the day, so the evening has been spent planning the day and googling directions etc.