My gift arrived via post yesterday, but as nobody was in the house when it arrived, there was a 'sorry we missed you card' waiting for me. My local post office depot is open quite difficult hours, so I ran there at 8am this morning as it's my last chance to get there before Saturday and I didn't want to keep my Santa waiting for a gallery post!

This is such a thoughtful gift. The coolest colouring book I've ever seen, and some fancy watercolour pencils to use with it! They're the nicest pencils I've had in a long time, this isn't usually the kind of luxury I can spring for!

You're right Santa, the theme of book does hit the escapism nail on the head. It was so nice to get me something that my niece can enjoy too. I may wait until she's a bit better at colouring (she's terrible :| even for a four year old) to let her colour it in with me, but she can certainly colour in her My Little Pony books next to me, and will love helping with the searching activity!

What you won't know is that at the moment I'm very jittery and anxious, and constantly need something to keep my hands and and that distract-able part of my brain busy, even when doing things like watching TV and films - so this will make a lovely and soothing alternative to my usual cubing :)

Thanks so much Santa! I can't wait to get started.

(I would have included a photo of them in their lovely wrapping paper, but I realised once I'd taken the photo and then opened them that I took the photo on my unsightly bedroom floor and then moved them to the bed... Sorry!)