Just when you think that there’s not enough room on this planet (or in your stomach) for any more sausage rolls, party packs of Indian snacks and family bags of Nobbies special nuts, I must make a plea for everyone to leave enough room for cake over the festive season.
And I don’t mean boring old Christmas cake – or as Gene Hunt once put it in Life on Mars ‘the Italian cake with all those holes in it’.
No, I mean proper afternoon cake which you have with a cup of tea (not coffee which should only be drunk with pastries, certain kind of biscuits and after dinner mints).