December 15, 2004
Incoming and Outgoing
Ok, Christmas-Knitting-Frenzy-Part-1 is over and a nice woolly package is whinging its way to sunny warm Australia. I hope all that wool gets past Customs? Are they going to rip apart my carefully wrapped parcels of woolies?
And speaking of parcels, I may have mentioned once or even twice before how much we enjoy being on the receiving end of something-too-big-for-the-slot-in-the-door and so we were overjoyed to discover just such a thing from Annette in Melbourne recently. Carefully ignoring the green Postpak adorned with reindeers I pretended not to realise it was a Christmas parcel and opened it there and then rather than waiting another 11 days. Waiting is not my strong point.
Annette sends brilliant presents. And hopelessly overestimates my abilities. Inside was a Patons book of Dinosaurs to knit. This will be interesting as my knitting strategy so far has been to avoid anything requiring me to think and these look a tad more complicated. Some of them even have those graph things so obviously counting and paying attention will be required. Ron, ever the optimnist, has already picked ou the one he wants but we are yet to decide on one for Jacob. Did I say, one?
Also included in Annette's parcel was a HUGE tin of Haigh's drinking chocolate! Truly worthy of our evening ammareto. And last but certainly not least was a platypus tea towel to add to the collection of those we've got from my mum. How did Annette know we didn't have a platypus?
I hadn't realised before that the tea towel thing was particularly Australian but I am starting to have my suspicions. Certainly the Dutch don't do it. (Give linen tea towels as gifts that is) I suspect the English might. But I don't know about the rest of the world? Maybe someone can enlighten me?
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