Things which ought not to be confused:

Leskol - "Leskol Half Fat looks, tastes, slices and cooks the same as any Mature Cheddar - but it's packed full of all the good things, and has much less of the bad..."

Leksol - "Leksol is a high-performance precision cleaning solvent used in vapour degreasing, ultrasonic cleaning and cold cleaning with high solvency power..."

(No, before you ask, I've not been drinking cleaning solvent. The cheese substitute was listed as an ingredient in a sandwich I bought today, and I wondered what the heck it was, so Googled it, and got the name slightly wrong. Also, the bit about tasting the same as any Mature Cheddar is a liiiiiiiiiiiiie.)

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I have recently tried Marmite with added champagne (something they did as a Valentine's promotion this year, and we've only just got around to opening due to the plethora of Marmite we already had in the cupboard). Didn't taste any different, to be honest - Marmite is way more overpowering a flavour. I've also tried Guinness Marmite - ditto. Guinness is kind of the alcoholic equivalent of Marmite, come to think of it. If you like that, I think there's a good chance you could come to like Marmite. Even if it's culturally not your thing.

Also, it's good added to vegetarian French onion soup, to give it the body it lacks without beef stock.

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I'm eating a lot of apples, lately. My favourite types are always the tiny ones that appear around this time of year - Russets, Cox's Orange Pippin (of which we had a tree, when I was a kid), all those. Mmm. They're very literary apples - they remind me of Lord of the Rings, and Little Women. Jo and her bag of apples, in the attic.

My local supermarket once tried to sell giant, mutant Russets, the same size as normal apples. I get the impression that they weren't successful - I didn't buy them, and next year they were back to the proper, tiny ones. Hah. Consumer power ftw.