Of course, one feels compelled to add that Wensleydale is the favourite cheese of Wallace, of Wallace and Gromit fame. In A Close Shave, it turns out that Wendolene Ramsbottom is not the woman of Wallace's dreams after all: she can't stand cheese! Brings her out in hives, she says.

"Not even Wensleydale?" asks Wallace plaintively.

Wendolene shakes her head and turns away, accompanied by what's left of her dog, Preston.

Wallace and Gromit head in for a piece of cheese. Wallace waxes philosophical in his selfish little way: "All the more for us," he tells Gromit.


I'm telling you, it's stuff like this that make me insist that Gromit is the appropriate mate for Wallace - and, in his heart of hearts, Wallace knows it.