If you day is that dire that you just need chocolate, scroll to the bottom for the recipe. Stat.

If you have time for shilly shallying, read on. These dense pomegranate chocolate pots can bring you back from the brink. I promise. I’m sending you a postcard from there.

I’m sending a post card from a place where toddlers are welcoming eye teeth and nursing rattling coughs and sticky colds (which they’re happy to share). Where the reason they’re repeatedly slamming their head against the floor is because you, their dastardly mother, dared to deny them the pleasure of drinking hand sanitiser.

It’s a place of weeks of torrential rain, missing electricity and …