My mother in law, god love her, keeps sending us boxes of Thorntons chocolates (to Australia!). Firstly, we can get them here, secondly, Australia post like to play footie with the post before they deliver it so the boxes are inevitably in bits by the time they get here and thirdly, their chocolate is pants! We were talking to her when we first moved here about Aussie chocolate being vile and how good British chocolate is like gold dust, hence why she keeps sending Thorntons, doesn't quite hit the spot!
On an unrelated note, I found out recently that when my Irish family name was being translated into English by the Brits they came up with two versions. One which is my family name and the other (which is completely different) is Thornton. Wonder if I should have shares in the company... not that I'd really want them!
