Happy Boxing Day! We got lots of cheesy jokes out of the crackers yesterday – Why did the doughnut seller retire? Because he was fed up with the hole business. Boom boom! Another – My friend drowned in a bowl of muesli. He was pulled in by a strong currant. Ha ha ha. In my cracker was a mini badminton set which we played over the gravy and sprouts! I hope you are having a good Boxing Day, it is pouring with rain here and I think we might float away if it continues!
I have ended up with a little collection of little toys. I never intended to collect toys, I haven’t consciously collected anything since I was a kid when I collected stamps and rocks and postcards among other things. Nowadays I tend towards gathering rather than conscious ‘collecting’, I gather buttons to use in jewelry and some special ones are kept for just gazing at. I gather stamps off letters and parcels which are pretty or interesting. Unfortunately stamps are few and far between, but I do like to cut off a special edition stamp with a date franked on it, especially from a parcel which has a ton of stamps on it! I have a few vintage postcards and am always on the lookout for more, but I wouldn’t call my little pile of cards a collection. The toys I have do follow a theme in that they are all small, the biggest among them is a vintage wooden soldier I found at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History’s flea market last summer while …
Clare Davis Etheridge 