I may have mentioned it before, but I have a spreadsheet for Chistmas.
It’s colour-coded and everything! BLACK is for presents ordered; RED for received; and BLUE for wrapped. Earlier this week, and at the risk of sounding like a football manager, I was looking at a rather daunting 9/21/3 formation. (Sick as a parrot, yes.)
That was until yesterday, when I spent a long time in the bedroom turning things blue (as it were). Now EVERYTHING is wrapped apart from eight blacks which are, let’s be honest, cutting it a bit fine.
I heartily approve of what seems to be ‘a thing’ with some online deliveries, that they come with a pack of Love Hearts. In the interests of fairness I’ve left one in situ (so if anybody shakes the box to determine what the present is, it makes a misleading rattle) and I’ve eaten the other. (WOW, smiley face, WINNER, and two ALL MINEs, in case you’re in the least bit interested.)
On the other hand, although I didn’t at this late stage in my ramblings expect to start moaning (he lied) I don’t approve of how many ‘Made in China’ labels I saw while wrapping. Can’t we even knock up a pair of slippers or a decent card game anymore?! (Oh! Spoiler warning – somebody’s getting slippers for Christmas)
That’s not an ‘isolationist’ rant, I know UK businesses sell into China, so inevitably the reverse must happen. But I don’t like, and this seems to be eBay in particular, when products aren’t advertised as such, it becomes apparent only when they arrive. I certainly have much more sympathy now for Grandpa saying “buy British” than I ever did at the time.
So, that’s ever-so-slightly made me see red – but I’ll try not to get blue about it!
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