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It is looking increasingly like June is becoming Chocolate month:-

• Our latest selection of luxurious chocolates from Hotel Chocolat arrived (one of Tina's birthday presents)
• The new Roald Dahl Museum has just opened in Great Missenden - with chocolate-coated doors.
• We visited Cadbury World (see separate article) - apparently Dahl's inspiration for Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (didn't see any Oompa Loompas there though).
  
• Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - the movie - is now complete, and the launch date has just been announced for ... er ... July.
  

Oh well the celebration of chocolate will have to continue past the end of June then.

Following my earlier comments, I have now had an official response from the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography team informing me that :

"According to the list I have Oxfordshire County Council and Reading Libraries have made purchases of the ODNB.

We appreciate that a number of individual readers would welcome either CD Rom or pay-as-you go service. We will be testing the water over the next few months and reviewing how to proceed and will take customers' feedback into account when doing so."