Pastor Eric

What a knock-out surprise!

Woke up at about 8am and gave my parents their presents - I bought my mother the Choirboys CD and a leather case for Diabled Parking permit, and my father had a bulk box of 48 Sherbert Fountains. Trust me, that made his day.

Then it came around to my turn for presents. As usual I had a Burton's voucher-card-thingy which was great - and was all I expected. Then my mother handed me another box - an Adidas deoderant and shower gel set. Nice, was thinking I needed to get deoderant soon.

Honestly I was happy to leave it there - it was more than I expected. Then came the surprise...she handed me another parcel which felt like material, possibly a jumper?

As I opened I my heart sank as I saw the vile pink and lime-green fabric inside - I was envisaging forcing a smile as I gave my thanks for a shirt that had unwisely been bought for me.

As I unwrapped it completely, I realised it was a cushion case - and there was something inside it. A jiffy bag.

I opened the jiffy bag....to find an Ipod nano! Man was I surprised! Completely unexpected! I'd be thinking about getting myself one in the new year and a few weeks ago I was out shopping with my parents and decided to show them what an Ipod looked like. I wasn't hinting, I just wanted them to see how small it was. As it transpires, when I dropped my parents off, they phoned the shop and ordered it for me. Fantastic - an amazing surprise.

Picked Alyssa up at 12 and brought her home, she was really excited to see all her presents, one of which was a Balamory scooter - and the poor little thing stood there waiting patiently for 30 minutes while I constructed it! She was landed. She loved her play kitchen set too, even though that took me ages to put together too. She had loads of other toys and clothes as well - she went home at 4 with a big smile on her face.

Ah well, it's all over for another year then. Excellent day had by all!