Our Christmas dinner consisted of corned beef hash and wartime Christmas pudding, but we listened to the wireless, sang, played CARDS and generally had a good time.

There are a lot of viruses and while it might have been better to avoid those extra helpings of Christmas pudding in the first place, now is not the time to be thinking about diets.

Probably he had come down in the world and this sampling was all that was left him from the time when he could afford to come and select his favorite pudding.