Okay, so I was a teensy bit excited when I saw that my gift was being shipped via Royal Mail - I miss the UK a lot, so I thought any reminder of my former "home" was sure to be wonderful.

Well, not only wonderful, but amazingly coincidental! No worries about not "getting anything from my wishlist", Santa - that was only for lazy people. My Santa both satisfied my sweets craving, and obtained some lovely soft yarn and a pattern to go with it - finally an excuse to start knitting again! Perfect!

Even better, my Santa happens to be a fellow polyglot and lover of travel, and from a town where I spent Boxing day in 2010 - for such a big world it has turned out to be crazy small!