I made a hot chocolate to get in the festive spirit – but it ended in disaster

Four-year-old Bobby Mower suffered severe burns after accidentally pulling a mug of hot chocolate onto himself while his father briefly turned away in the kitchen. His mother, Charis Evans, shared the accident as a warning about keeping hot drinks out of children’s reach during the winter.

Evans cooled the burns under running water before taking Bobby to hospital, where he spent a couple of weeks in a burns unit and received treatment including pain relief and bandaging. She feared he would be left with facial scars, but says he has fully recovered; NHS advice is to cool burns with running water for about 20 minutes as soon as possible.