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Ibet nobody is surprised when they read our number fact in this week’s The Buzz, on page 15. Turns out, in the first four weeks of the pandemic lockdown, confectionery sales increased by a whopping 27 per cent. I’m going to put my hand up here and admit to helping nudge that figure along. Every single night since it started, my husband Simon and I have shared a Peppermint Crisp. We’ve also become fans of Sweet and Salty Popcorn. Although I’ve noticed that’s selling out at the supermarket, so I reckon we’re not the only people who’ve ‘discovered’ it! I’ve just come from an online Zoom meeting with the rest of the tl! team and it turns out most of them have helped with that lolly sales jump, too. Liz and her sister Sarah have been enjoying musk sticks, along with the not-so-occasional Tim Tam. Sarah is also a dedicated Tim Tammer. ‘The Family Packs are much cheaper,’ she told us.

Rachel shares with two flatmates, who are also friends, and confessed that most nights the three of them happily demolish a family-sized bar of milk chocolate. Beth and her fiancé Suddy were meant to have been married last weekend so, as a consolation, her sister Jemimah sent them an incredibly rich, gooey, chocolate-y, caramel-y ice-cream cake that had all of us salivating. But Eunice had us all gasping in admiration when she held up an untouched Easter egg, filled with chocolate-covered hazelnuts. ‘Such restraint! Such willpower!’ we cried. ‘Not from me,’ replied Eunice. ‘It was on special!’ which left us all feeling a bit relieved. Now all we want to know is, when we do go back to the office, can we all keep wearing our tracky-dacks? Pretty please?