I just got back from Christmas with my family and opened my Secret Santa present. It was very cleverly packaged with a return address for S. Claus and wrapped up in gun tape, which makes me think my Secret Santa has been in the Army or possibly has a contact in QM stores who ships him contraband. Inside was a copy of a newspaper from Newcastle, a piece of Kendal mint cake, and a stone from the Irish sea, as well as a CD from the Boat Band, with Secret Santa's name carefully blacked out wherever it appeared. That, of course, would be a dead give away for folkies from Cumbria, but still leaves me in the dark.

Whoever you are, thank you very much for a great Christmas present!!

Edmund