>>> Can I just add that if I spent Christmas on my own, I would be happy with cheese and more cheese.
I can largely echo that, Lottie. Unfortunately I left my cheese shopping until too late, finding that all of the outlets around here that sell really good cheeses (such as our local farm shop) had closed before I got there on Christmas Eve. So, although I had some standard supermarket cheeses in the fridge, I found myself missing decent cheese over Christmas.
Like you, I appreciate a decent cheddar (such as Keen's or Black Bomber) but I also enjoy a subtle blue cheese, such as the excellent Suffolk Blue.