A Christmas Cracker: The only festive romance to curl up with this Christmas!. Trisha Ashley

from getting underfoot.’

      ‘Good thinking. Health and Safety would probably have something to say about that.’

      ‘Health and Safety are likely to have a lot to say on all kinds of things,’ I said. ‘Anyway, they walk down past the cracker making, and then enter the middle of the storeroom through doors at the back.’

      I drew a quick sketch. ‘See, the first storeroom’s door can be blocked off, so it’s only accessible from the cracker workshop. Then I suggest you turn the other two into a museum dedicated to the history of Marwood’s Magical Crackers, including the Quaker connection and any bits of interesting family history.’