A fake tree the firemen put up in the mess hall made me miss the scent of pine. I fiddled with decorating eighty penguin cookies. I thought of Scott and his men struggling south across the Beardmore, hauling their heavy sleds loaded with food, fuel, and gear. As I rolled hundreds of truffles in cocoa powder, the “great feed” that Scott’s men enjoyed on Christmas Day, 1911, came to mind. In canvas tents, they marked the day with “a good fat hoosh with pony meat and ground biscuit; a chocolate hoosh made of chocolate, cocoa, sugar, biscuit, raisins and thickened with a spoonful of arrowroot.” Before wriggling into their stiff sealskin sleeping bags, they consumed “2 ½ square inches of plum-duff each, and a good mug of cocoa.”
But there is unlikely to be much influence on prices before the Bank of England's next rate-setting committee meeting.
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There were few fireworks, but six points from six meant “job done” for England in their first two World Cup qualifiers. They might have preferred to score more goals to boost their goal difference, but these victories were essential in England’s quest to top this qualifying group before they face Spain.
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