Moo Free Gluten & Dairy Free Bing Milk Chocolate Advent Calendar - 70g

The advent calendar is a fixture of a British December, propped on the mantelpiece or stuck to the fridge, one door before school and not a second sooner. Character calendars are part of the ritual: whoever is on children's telly that year ends up on the front.

If your kids watch Bing, they have probably picked up a British phrase or two from him already. A calendar with him on it is a small way of giving them the December you had, even if the snow outside here is a good deal deeper.

It is a slim 70g calendar, flat enough to stand on a shelf or slip into a parcel. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator, until the first of December, and well out of reach of anyone who treats the doors as a suggestion.

Moo Free makes chocolate bars as well as its seasonal calendars, and plenty of people add a bar for the grown-ups who once opened calendars of their own. Put a UK selection box next to it and the stocking fillers are more or less sorted.