First off, wow.

My doorbell rang today with a package, the delivery driver seemed especially keen to let me know that it was addressed "to Matthew Wilkes, care of MatthewWilkes". Awesome, I know that addressing format, it's an exchange gift!

It's a work from home day but I managed to hold off tearing it open (despite it being obviously huge and terribly exciting) until it was lunch time. But, it's lunchtime now, so…

Inside the package was four individually wrapped presents, marked "Some new things", "Something funny?", "Some old things" and "A favourite of mine, I hope you enjoy it too".

Four books? No. Two of them were multiple books, my Santa sent me a staggering 8 books! I tried to put a lot of info into my profile in the hopes that it'd be helpful, it's hard to buy books people will enjoy when you don't know them and I wanted my Santa to be able to have enough information to decide and not just have a single option. It didn't occur to me that someone would try and match everything I'd put in, I feel bad now.

There's too much to go over here, so check out the captions in the gallery!

Thank you so much Santa, this is an amazing gift!