I don't eat lollies that often (a bag of snakes I bought in August and took with me on the birthday trip has yet to be opened) but it just so happens that that morning I had opened my Santa Sack and hoed into a handful of the toffees, so that may have been a contributing factor :)

I so should work in an 1800s sweet shop, complete in striped shirt, bow tie, and massive handlebar moustache :)

As to compliments, I offer them when I feel them, because you never know if you'll ever have the chance to do so again. And I've trained myself to be better at accepting them, rather than doing the automatic "No I'm not" reaction that is actually incredibly rude and impolite to the giver of the compliment.

Though I do still go all shy sometimes :)