The Sellotape Queen strikes again

[shewhomust]

durham_rambler has just heased out to his appointment, with a package to post: a birthday present for K. whom we visited in Ludlow. Even with first-class postage, it will probably arrive late. There is no justification for this: I bought it in good time. In fact, both gidt and card were purchased at the Piece Hall in Halifax, on our way home from that visit. Why am I so bad at wrapping and sendong gifts? Oh, I'm no genius at finding them, either, but on occasions like this one, when I had found something which was the perfect combination of appropriate and silly, why do I delay over getting it into the post? It was, admittedly, breakable (but not actually fragile), and I would have liked to find a box of the perfect size in my stash of might-be-useful-one-day boxes... And then I couldn't find the Sellotape...

Well, it's done. A box has been confected from cardboard and lined with bubble wrap, and the whole has been smothered in sticky tape. My stepmother used to complain that my father and I shared a packing technique which relied on lashings of sellotape, which was effective but inelegant, and a challenge to open. I just hope it will succeed, and that K. will like her present.

The card was this one, by Kate Lycett, whose work I saw in one of the little galleries in the Piece Hall, and would like to see more of. In contrast. here's Hebden Bridge A to Z in wood engravings.