Letters to the Editor

Chocoholics anonymous

I WAS delighted to see COUNTRY LIFE recently acknowledge good taste, in the guise of the chocolate labrador (‘). I’m yet to reach 40, but have experienced much upheaval in my life, both personal and professional. I remain alive to tell the tale thanks to the stellar support of the), born in Lewes, East Sussex, in 2001—20 years to the day before the aforementioned article—and who died in 2016, aged nearly 15. I purchased him when I was 16, with the proceeds of a flash-in-the-pan confectionery business at school.