Categories: random
Tags: WISE
Date: 24 November 2008 21:46:53
I was right - it was my WISE gift waiting for me! I have taken pictures, but unfortunately the card reader is at the other end of the country so I shall show you those on Thursday when I am reunited with the appropriate technology. Before then though I have to say a huge THANKYOU! to the lovely Miss Lisa for her parcel of fabulous goodies all the way from Tasmania! A couple of them made me laugh, but they're all great.
The parcel consisted of:
* a bird (kookaburra?) with a santa hat that will join the alpaca** on our Christmas tree this year
* a book of Devilishly Delicious recipes from Tasmania
* a few sheets of Creative Paper
* some seeds impregnated in gen-u-ine Roo Poo*** paper (that made me laugh out loud, on the bus, which is where I was when I opened it)
* a couple of Tasmania tourist brochures "for further information about planning your Tasmanian holiday". Is that a hint by any chance, Lisa?
What a fab present! Thank you so much :D
** We got an alpaca from the Practical Action (formerly Intermediate Technology) charity as an alternative wedding present last year. The actual alpaca went to a family in Peru, but we got a little knitted alpaca finger puppet as a little memento, so stuck it on the top of our Christmas tree, which is our first Christmas tradition. With the addition of the kookaburra this year, maybe we should instigate a tradition of a new Christmas tree critter every year?
*** I bought some elephant poo paper with seeds when I went to Namibia in 2000, but nothing ever happened with them despite planting it - I certainly didn't grow any elephants, I'd have probably seen the footprints in the butter if I had. I shall try to grow roos instead, although the blurb on the packet says "the flowers prefer direct sunlight and dry conditions" which in the west of Scotland it has to be said might be a wee bit of a challenge.