Humbug

Do you know what a humbug is? I know, it sounds like an insect but it is far from that. It is an old English term for boiled sweets, much like those that we have in little wrappers and pop in our mouths. Even as I am sucking on a Fisherman Friend Mandarin and Ginger Lozenge, letting the tangy (sweet and spicy) flavour roll about my tongue, I think how the children in Enid Blyton's stories must have felt, happy and without a care in the world. I also think of the humbugs in their mouths, how it diminishes with the passing of time, how soon it is no more but a distant memory...