Holiday Gifts just arrived

Where to start- so many lovely gifts and just the right ones too.... I'll get my list started with the Ipswich Scarf after my Aunt Ella- therefore I'll call it Ella in her honour. An 86 yr Aunt who drank beer from a bottle and smoked big fat cigars- much to my mother's chagrin... of course in the 60's that would have been out of character, but Aunt Ella was a strong Englishwomen - perhaps a feminist before her time who died in Ipswich UK. Strong - willed kind "one of a kind" ...


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