I can't quite believe all this... I've had a bit of a bad year and a few weeks ago I wrote a post asking for a hug, and several lovely people said kind things to me, including my Elf-Santa! It turns out Santa is fed up with cold lands and has moved to Dubai where they work as Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic!

I collected the box from my brother (the boy pictured holding it, excuse his unwashed hair!!) and saw it was HUGE! when I opened it I couldn't believe how many wonderful little packages were inside, millions. And the best bit which was a letter from my wonderful Santa, they were kind about me, had found out my hobbies and all about me (presumably by using charms) and all my packages were personalised....but that isn't where the amazingness stopped!

The first parcel contained an actual Goblet of Fire, i've always loved that book/film and now it will have pride of place with a candle in it on my Christmas lunch table tomorrow. the next contained the most stunning set of metal bookmarks, one each for the Hogwarts houses, but I never went to Hogwarts because they forgot to send me my ticket :(

WAIT! the next parcel contained my Hogwarts Express ticket, I know it's mine because it has my name on! So it was all a misunderstanding and I should have gone, luckily my mother taught me all the magical arts at home so I was able to gain magical employment at the ministry when I left school.

OOOOH! It looks like the ministry have noticed my hard work in the subject of miniature Potter creations and have promoted me to be head of Magical Miniatures and Marvels! That is a new post which has been created just for me, and comes with an identity card containing my credentials and a picture of me to stop pesky dark wizards using it. A new Ministry keyring will help no end with remembering my keys as well!

I've created no end of mess excitedly unwrapping these things and crying with general overwhelmedness so I needed a timely reminder that we don't have any house elves here... my mother is proudly showing off the new sign we are going to put on our landing, to remind everyone to clean!

In all, I can't quite put into words what this has meant to me, and how outstanding, thoughtful, magical and loving a person my Santa is, they have made this season a time of marvels and joy for me and also my family! (even my 78yr old stepfather who said EH? a lot when I was explaining it) I wish I could meet them one day to express it to them in person, but would love them to PM me their postal address so I can send a thankyou in the new year.

so much love. Flora xxx

ps. mods, whilst my name shows in some pictures, it is not my legal name (it is the one I use but has no online presence) and cannot be used to identify me, so please don't remove the post.