My Arbitrary Day gift arrived yesterday. I had long given up hope of ever seeing it and thought I had been forgotten. Not hearing from my santa seemed to confirm my suspicions.

I'm sorry santa. I'm sorry for doubting you!

The date on the parcel clearly shows that it was posted in June. It was opened twice by different authorities to be checked! It had to come from South Africa so it had a long journey!

But it's here now and oh was it ever worth the wait!

I saw the t-shirt first and wondered if this was my equally lost T-shirt exchange gift, but no, there was more!

The Sea Rescue t-shirt is fantastic! I really love it and all of my coastguard buddies are jealous! Several of them collect things like this but I'm not sharing!

The books are really thoughtful. I'm still intending to go to Italy soon and have some sailing planned in the next few weeks so the books will be very useful!

The postcards are very pretty, I love them!

My brother lived in South Africa for 6 months earlier this year. When he saw the chocolate bars he nearly grabbed them for himself! Apparently Lunch bars were his favourite so I may be nice and let him have one... maybe!

Thank you so much, santa. This is a really thoughtful gift and I'm so glad that it actually made it's way here!