Kinnerton Bluey Advent Calendar - 40g

The chocolate advent calendar is the opening act of a British Christmas. Cardboard doors, a number to find, a bit of chocolate before school: it is how most of us measured December as children, long before anyone mentioned presents.

Plenty of children in Canada were raised on Bluey without ever setting foot in Britain, and plenty of their parents want them to have the calendar they had. Put the two together and you get a small UK Christmas tradition on the kitchen shelf, which is a lot to ask of a calendar, but it manages.

It holds 40g of chocolate in total, so think little squares rather than a feast, which suits the small person it is for. It is flat and light, happy propped on a mantelpiece or shelf. Keep it somewhere cool and dry until the first, well away from radiators and from anyone with a curious streak.

Kinnerton is best known in Britain for character chocolate for children. People tend to pick this up alongside a UK selection box or a few stocking fillers, and suddenly Christmas in Canada looks a lot like the one they remember.