Sports Personality of the Year Show

The Sunday before Christmas and there is only one thing to do, pour a large scotch and sit back and watch the Sports Personality of the Year Show on BBC - consistently the best review of sport!

Great moments: Mohammed Ali getting overseas/all-time greatest sportsman award, Ashes winning team of the year, Redgrave and Pinsent, the list goes on & on!

And somewhere down the line tears are shed at the sheer joy and pain that sport can bring!

And this year's winner is AP McCoy!

Pre-made Sandwiches (M&S preferably)

Aussies don't really do sandwiches that well. Ham, ham & cheese or ham & cheese without the cheese. The seafood options are negligible and as for a vegetarian option - non existent!

What I really want is a West Cornish Crayfish Tail, Russian Tomato and hand-reared Tunisian Cucumber relish with Pomegranate & lemon drizzled wood-fired wholemeal focaccia sliced 97% fat free sandwich!

Honest I do!

Cider

An alcoholic beverage made from Apples. Whatever next? A drink made from grapes?

Mixed with ice (maybe)? As an inherent part of a hot summer day, definitely. Cider has often been considered as the poor cousin of beer and an even more impoverished relative of wine. However, it's a fine drink and another little thing I miss about England.

Favourite Cider?

1. Merrydown Sussex Cider
2. Bulmers
3. Magners
4. Woodpecker