The gift that keeps on giving...

Anthony took the brave step this week of opening one of his 'memorabilia boxes'. You know the type, we all have them. They hold those football medals, snippets from the local paper and dubious school artworks that we can somehow never bring ourselves to throw out. You can imagine his suprise in discovering a cake-stand. Blue, and still in its original packaging together with a card 'Merry Christmas, love Julie, Peter, Jordan, Zoe and Gabbi'.

Now I confess we've had the odd dig at each other over the years concerning the respective sizes of our collection of memorabilia boxes. After all, its not very eco-friendly to have piles of 'stuff', but I had not thought it possible that either of our collections could harbour a cake stand, for 8 years!!!

From what we can fathom, the Spriggs' must have given it to us at Christmas 2001, a few weeks shy of our first move to London which would explain why we never unpacked it.

So thanks for the gift guys. We were, need we say, very suprised. For his part, Anthony has spent the past week trying to convince Alison (who wouldn't mind some new salad servers) that his collection doesn't contain anything else of note.