Presents

A couple of days ago a friend of mine received a parcel and experienced one of my most favourite things. PRESENTS! Don’t we all love them? I just adore delving into gifts and unexpected gifts really do make one’s day. They may come done up in plain brown paper, newspaper (one of my friends did that to me once) swathed in tissue or gift-wrapped and tied up with lots of ribbon… but they all create that feeling of pleasurable expectancy and sheer joy.

On my birthday in January this year, one of my friends, who had just returned from abroad, walked in to my office with this huge grin and a gaily wrapped package. I hastily pulled off the wrapping paper and revealed a mysterious looking pouch. I touched it, shook it, felt it ……… yes I even sniffed it!!! ……. but just couldn’t guess what it was …. (not that it stopped me from making wild guesses anyway!) I do believe my friend found my reactions and suggestions vastly amusing. Anyway, finally, having exhausted a number of possibilities I opened up the little buttons on the pouch and there nestling within layers of tissue was the most exquisite strand of pearls with matching ear studs. As you may guess, that quite made my day and I walked on a pink cloud of happiness the entire day.

Yet another friend went out and got me this lovely t-shirt in my current favourite colour which was a perfect match for a pair of jeans I had recently bought. Hooraay.

And my friend Tushara knowing my yen for nail polish got me several shades of nail polish and a half dozen colours of lipstick as well, while my little friend Melina took upon herself the enormous project of making me a birthday card.