The great thing is to have a daughter with six children on school holidays until February (this is the Southern Hemisphere). We held a New Year's Day barbecue and, as always, I cooked a selection of meats and fish, prepared a bunch of salads, made bread, bought crackers and a selection of cheeses, made desserts, etc. Typical OTT absent. However, as always, when it was time for the family to go home, out came the resealable boxes, which were then packed with leftover lamb chops with mint and sherry, chicken kebabs with citrus and cumin, [home-grown] courgette and Parmesan cheese bread, Boodles Citrus Fool and maybe some other stuff. Absentdaughter did transfer the prawns from the one remaining kebab into a small box in the fridge, knowing that I had not eaten much and prawns are a favourite. Unfortunately, I thought the box contained something else and emptied it into the rubbish bin before I realised.