I was idly wondering to myself last week... "Christmas is over, New Year is over... I wonder how long it'll be before we see the first Easter eggs or Easter bunnies in the stores?"

I found out yesterday when I saw this at the check-out of the local supermarket.

Good Friday is 6 April this year, or day 96 of 2012. Yesterday was day 22. Which makes this, at 74 days to launch, far and away the earliest Easter selling opportunity that I've come across. To date, that is.

One of the nice things about chocolate sculptures is that you can get such different effects by simply moving the light around them, as I did with this one. However only one can be a PAD, and this is it.

I'm mostly off the chocolates at the moment until I get a couple of centimetres off my waistline, but I have to admit that I disposed of this one in the appropriate fashion.

After all, one must occasionally put one's personal feelings aside, and be prepared to suffer for art's sake.

Last Year