Hope this isn't necromancy,  but does anyone know if Marks and Spencer still does the TIN of their Big Selection as opposed to just the carton? I've only seen the carton at our local stores, but then my area is not exactly renown for full-range product supply and diversity.

Just noticed the new Cadbury easter range includes the new Egg n' Spoon. 'individually wrapped milk chocolate egg shells filled with a mousse.'

This is highly reminiscent of a Milka product I've seen on import confectionery shops' Easter ranges that always looked rather enticing. It also reminds me of an old Terry's chocolate orange easter feature from when I was little; Terry's also owned by Kraft if I'm not mistaken? I remember the old Terry's feature and I'm sure I used to like it intensely, so hopefully the innovation will not be a bad thing. Judging on the recent additions to Dairy Milk, it might actually be a rather tasty, new innovation from Cadbury.

It still, however, showcases more of the Kraft homogeneity and hybridizing. I'm still awaiting the ultimate amalgam: 'Our deliciously creamy Dairy Milk chocolate filled with delicious chunks of real Milka™'.

After the Dairy Milk Pretzels and Cadbury Philadelphia, I wouldn't put anything past them. I'm surprised the new Spoon Eggs things aren't filled with Kool Aid or 'Mac' n' Cheeze'. I didn't realise until recently that they also owned Mikado, which explains the insidious increased proliferation of its marketing. I'm sure there's some untapped potential in the fact that both Toblerone and Dairylea are triangle based.

Then I applaud your attitude. Your students must be very lucky to have one so sympathetic as their mentor. The teachers and adults I have come across have never viewed such behaviour as representative of one being 'worthy of protection', but rather either a hysterical attention seeker or simply an foolish little girl or idiot guttersnipe; and ultimately something to be brushed aside as completely irrelevant, as it has no relation to one's ability to complete fifty gazillion quadratic equations in ten minutes, conjugate Latin verbs or debate the finer points of the Stalinist revolution. As I said, I truly admire and respect your sympathetic attitude to students and young people.

What about a hypothetical 'We Need to talk about Kevin' scenario? Unrelated to the Saville thing, would it not theoretically be possible for a teenage girl to be a homicidal sociopath and an older man to be completely innocent? Arguably more likely to happen the other way round, but not impossible. And I have known at least one girl (not myself) who on a number of occasions got boys drunk/on drugs and took advantage of them to the fullest extent. And both her and the boys were underage at the time, so the question of age was irrelevant.  I remember how sorry me and my friends felt for the guys, having to perform such an act with the girl in question (seriously, she wasn't much to look at and her personality did nothing to redeem her).

 I am not condoning anything, nor excusing anything. As I said, all situations and people are different and each situation must be judged on its own specific circumstances, attributes and aspects. Snap judgments must not be made on quick and immediate stereotypes alone.

Ohhhhh I was wondering when those would appear. I haven't seen them yet, not even when I was at Cadbury World last week, which was kind of surprising given the product hype.   

I'm also sort of surprised it hasn't been more integral to the Christmas chocolate run-up, although I suppose there's plenty of retail time left yet. I bet the marketing team at Kraft are already dreaming up ways to market the range for the Easter Market, especially since Cadbury don't really have an Easter range targeted at women, whereas Mars has Galaxy which has a humongous range of Easter eggs.

Is it better or worse than Bueno / Kit kat senses (do those sill exist?) / Malteasers bunny?

Me too to be honest.  I certainly can't see the shape change endearing Kraft to their already cynical and distrusting British market, especially in light of how the takeover was handled.

I bet it has something to do with cost. If I'm not mistaken, very little is still manufactured in the original British factories.

New, cheaper / more efficient machines? Machines doubled up in useage from other chocolate products not part of the Cadbury range? I don't know.

Actually there are eight new Lindt Creations: Four with deep-filled squares almost a la their filled liquer bars, and four with flatter-shaped filled squares, more akin to the manner which Double Milk is 'filled'.

The four deep-filled are Divine Hazlenut, Vanilla and Almond, Dark Orange and Luscious Caramel. I've seen all four in Tesco; certain Sainsburys also do some, though I'm not sure how many.

The Four flat-filled are Coconut, Creme Brulee, and Hazlenut Deluxe Milk and Dark versions. I've only seen these in Waitrose so far, though I bet Ocado do them too. Come to think of it, I don't recall seeing the dark version last time I went, so either they sold out at my store or god knows where I got it from.

The Four deep-filled seem much easier to aquire in 'everyday' supermarkets, though no one supermarket seems to carry the full range (typically, to increase revenue no doubt).  I wish the flat-filled ones were more prolific, but then I remeber when I lived in Oxford there were Waitroses everywhere, so I suppose it depends where one lives.

They have it for one pound in Tesco, Sainsburys and Poundland, The white one did indeed appear tantalizing however I convinced myself not to buy it as it seemed like a non-essential. Is the difference in the white one enough to warrant spending money on what is essentially just more Dairy Milk?