SP11 package 2

Friday, November 9, 2007 in swaps
Tags: books, tea

I received my package about two weeks after my pal sent it, as it fell foul of both official and wildcat postal strikes. That was a couple of weeks ago now – I am so sorry didn’t post earlier.

It’s a “pamper” package, with some lovely bath salts and a selection of teas. I love having a mixed bag like this, because it means that I can always find something to suit my mood. I haven’t had a bath in a while, but now I have an excuse! Somehow there’s never time, is there?

There were also some tiny boxes of raisins – perfect vegan handbag snacks, and a mercy to my colleagues, because I am not very nice when I am hungry.  She also put in a large mug that says “if the shoe fits, buy it in every colour” – this is certainly true of me, as so few fit in the first place!

This is HipKnits laceweight in a really gorgeous colourway. The larger pictures show it a bit better, but I’m afraid my poor photography strikes again. I don’t know what I’m going to make with it, but it’s definitely going to be something for me because it’s just the colour I would choose for myself. Thank you so much secret pal!

I’m having a great time in SP11. My downstream is a voracious reader like me, so I demanded book recommendations. She had just finished A Confederacy of Dunces, and now I have read it too. Run, do not walk, to your local library (I believe in libraries). I enjoyed it so much that I missed my bus stop on two separate occasions, and laughed out loud on more. I can’t think of another book so funny and so human. So many knitters are great readers (and by great I mean they read books I consider great). A lovely lady I de-stashed some of my Koigu to last month had read Lermontov in Russian!