It’s Beginning To Look Like Easter

Yesterday there was almost too much tangible and palpable excitement thronging through The Towers…….

…….. after our lovely postman arrived with a parcel addressed to “The Boyz”, there was only one person it could have come from …….

…….  our No. 1 fan and cereal serial  follower, Jan The Fan who has been with us almost since we started way back in 2009!

As with all of Jan the Fan’s parcels it was wrapped for full impact, like a wonderful pass the parcel parcel …………

…… with the tension and exquisite excitement mounting as each new layer was revealed

……. until the final reveal … which left us all in momentarily silent awe, quickly followed by oooooooo’s and ahhhhhhhhh’s and then, it has to be said, a few tears, yes, it was emotional, of an Oscar acceptance type nature.

Inside, was a festive bow tie for each of us to choose.  Darrell went first, he chose the one with the carrot (knowing which one Nigel would really, really, really, really want) ……

……. that being the one with the Lego bunny on …….

…… and I chose the very gay one with the Easter chick, with which I decided to buck the trend and wear on my head in a sort of Easter Tide homage to Hilda Ogden. Well, when Darrell saw that his own bow tie was swiftly moved from his neck to his ears saying that he had thought of doing it too but wondered if it might have been a little too avant-garde for this particular time of the year.  Me? Avant garde and trend setting, who would ever have believed it!!????

There was a card inside the parcel too …….

…… written in Jan the Fan’s own, real life handwriting, with “love” and three kisses (one each), it was again emotional. I don’t think even a card from our own beloved Her Majesty could have ever meant as much.

What can we say ……. Thank you sooooooooooo much, Jan the Fan we love you too, and thank you for making our Easter so very special.

And thank you Frankys Bowtique for making it all possible!