The end results are almost as good as the fun process of making them – and the stories and histories add another layer of flavour

If you like chocolate, a wonderful thing to do, for yourself, for someone else or, maybe all together, is a chocolate course. Lots of places now run them, where you learn all about chocolate, how to temper it and then usually make various incarnations of the stuff.

I went with my two bambine to Melt just off Westbourne Grove in London, up the road from where I grew up, to attend one of its chocolate courses. It was meant to last three hours but, four and a half hours later, we were all still there, laughing and learning.