Rife With Festive Emotion ……..

Please forgive the poor standard of our photos today, we think somehow we’ve managed to get a greasy smudge on the lens, however, though said camera has served us well over the years, we are thinking that, perhaps, we might ask Santa for a new one when the time finally comes, later on in the month.

Sooooooooo, on Friday our lovely postman Rob dropped off a parcel that we recognised straight away as coming from our beloved No. 1 fan, Jan the Fan, needless to say The Towers then thronged with a unfettered and unbridled excitement.

It was a wonderous present of three parts, the largest of which is to rest under our festive branches until the BIG day, with Nigel warned not to shake or in any way fertle with it until then, lest the surprise is spoiled, tempting, though it will no doubt be.

However, there was a also small flat package that we were urged to open, there and then …….

…… and that’s when the festive floodgates were opened ………

……. because inside the personalised card ……..

……. was a real life, handwritten poem ……..

…….. just for us!

Let’s just say, it was emotional, very emotional and took quite a while, aided by a mug of steaming hot chocolate and several stollen mini bites to compose ourselves again ……. but then, there was more …….

…….. another package to be opened on 1st December ………

….. which only contained an Advent calendar of a scratch card type nature!  Needless to say, we got scratching immediately, on this occassion, we didn’t win a prize, but we are very hopeful, very hopeful indeed ……… but not presumptuously spending in our heads ahead of such a win!

What can we say? Thank you so much Jan the Fan …… you’ve started our most favourite month of the year with quite an emotional bang.  XXX THANK YOU XXX