Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you have a fantastic day :D

You're welcome! Sorry again that it took so long to get to you (and that your birthday gifts are still not ready to send), but hopefully you'll enjoy using it all :D

That's one big disadvantage of the author taking so long with each new book! I had to re-read everything as well, just to make sure I remembered what was happening, otherwise I think I'd have got in a real muddle with the characters :P

I didn't realise Pusur goes out on the balcony - I can imagine your neighbour sitting on their balcony and suddenly getting a flying Pusur land on their lap as he jumped over to them!

I think we'd have been better learning Welsh (seeing as Wales is so close), and maybe Sign Language (as that could come in useful in the workplace), rather than forcing French & German, but as usual the schools think they know best! :P I had a German penpal at one point, but we didn't learn much that we could use in conversation with someone our own age - one lesson was learning how to tell a mechanic that the car had broken down (bearing in mind none of us were old enough to learn to drive at that point, it did feel rather silly!) ;)

Do you have to pay import fees if something you've bought comes from overseas? I've never understood why Amazon don't have a Norwegian site, as I thought they had one for almost every other big country!

That’s a good point - hopefully they’ll be able to find a better treatment soon :D

Having some lighter weight lessons always came in handy. On a Friday, we had German followed by French, followed by English before lunch, then double Science in the afternoon o.O I don’t know who made that timetable, but they weren’t very clever about giving us a balanced selection of lessons in the day!

nods I think it would’ve helped if we’d had more of an idea about what kind of projects we could do, and what we were actually looking to achieve / discover from it. Then we might have been able to think of a project that we wanted to do, without needing to make a rushed decision (or being given the project by the teacher!).

Amazon are super speedy when it comes to delivering! Those two colouring books are perfect, and the pens look brilliant! I’m looking forward to trying them out later :D Thank you!!!!!!

And huge thank you for the goodies in the box on here as well :D

You'd think that by now they would have discovered something that works as well as chem, but doesn't have the nasty side effects! Hopefully the immunotherapy has been beneficial for her :D

I think the hanging basket bracket would've been ok if the basket had fake flowers and no soil, but I don't think my metalwork skills were good enough to handle a proper hanging basket's weight! laughs

Yeah, the first we'd heard about needing to come in over the summer was a couple of weeks before the end of that term.... you'd think the teacher would have told us in advance (like when we picked that subject in the first place!)?! Strictly speaking, we were all meant to pick a project ourselves (something that interested us). But none of us managed to think of something that would work :P I don't think it helped that up to that point, all the projects were given to us, so we'd never had to think of a project to work on!

Firstly, I want to apologise for the fact that your Christmas present has only just gone in the post this week.... I had it all ready to wrap and send, but it's taken a lot longer than I'd anticipated to get it sorted out 😊 Your birthday present is also ready to wrap, so I'm hoping I can get that in the post this week :)

I was going to sMail the birthday ideas, but sMail doesn't seem to use the coding in the same way for links o.O so I'll add it here instead :)

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I've got a couple of ideas - I've been working through some different style colouring books in the last few months (the Johanna Basford ones are really good, but sometimes they feel too detailed, especially if it's a high-fatigue day for me), so here's a couple of suggestions:

Colouring Book Colouring Book Colouring Book Colouring Book or maybe some fine liner pens / glittery gel pens that I can add some sparkly detail in with? (as usual, feel free to do any or none of those ideas!) Thanks! :D

I hope your friend's chemo goes smoothly, but that's sweet of you to go and help her while she's having that done :)

Oven mitts and an apron are pretty useful things to make :D The candleholder sounds really creative though - I never used my hanging basket bracket, as I wasn't convinced it was strong enough to hold the weight! :P

Urgh, that kind of instruction book is always a nightmare! You'd think they would make it easier to follow, or at least have the instructions on that page rather than having to then go to a different page completely o.O Makes me think of those 'choose your adventure' books, where you pick what happens next by going to whichever page ;)

nods wiring a plug came in handy at work, seeing as I was on the lighting department, and there were about 50 connectors that needed wiring for the displays to be changed over! And yeah, I didn't understand how that was just expected of us to come in over the holidays.... one of the students had moved to the UK a few years ago, so potentially his family could've been planning on going back to their previous country to visit relatives in the holidays. I kind of knew how an oscilloscope worked, but I didn't really see how using that to show musical notes was actually going to make a complete project (once I knew what the note 'looked' like, what was I going to do with that information to make a proper project out of it?!)