Mark, what? No pancake party at your practice? You know, you're going to be come addicted and require a steady supply.

I was allowed to open one on my birthday and did. A lovely CD of the Shellback Chorus which is now in my car. (The CD, not the chorus - not enough seat belts for everyone.) It gives me a taste of what these folks and all those combined voices must sound like live!

I'm being good about the other gifts. I guess I'm not really feeling Christmassy yet or I would have opened them all and then apologised later. I expect I'm going to love the rest. There's a sort of local feel and an aura of care - all that from feeling up the wrapping!

THANK YOU SNUFFY!
(More later)