So did anyone get any nice Christmas batteries?

Best we managed were these "Not for Retail Trade" industrial Panasonics. It's good having batteries THEY don't want you to be using. They were the in-box set that powered a Canon digital camera (bought for self to alleviate inevitable present disappointment).



One day of half-hearted digital photography and experimentation with settings drained them dead, sadly, so it would appear they don't contain any super-powerful new technology that is yet to trickle down to the consumer.



This sad battery haul is mainly because we got jumpers, shirts and chocolate. The shirts and jumpers have already been exchanged for ones we actually like, while the chocolates are nestling in a specially constructed flabby paunch a few centimetres above the waistline.