A parcel arrived yesterday - I've had a few over the lockdown period but wasn't expecting anything else. When I undid the black bin liner wrapping (with gloves on of course) there was a shoe box which was even more puzzling. Imagine my delight when inside covered in tissue paper there lay a kg bag of SR flour, half a lemon drizzle cake and 3 cookies courtesy of my good friend 60 miles away! We talk several times a week and I've been bemoaning the lack of flour locally while she's been getting hers from a local shop at the end of the road. A prolific baker of cakes she's always made me something when we've been over there but this went above and beyond and better than receiving a bunch of flowers! 
Has anyone else had such thoughtful gifts?
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I've seriously thought about getting a disposable barbecue - with just the two of us it's pointless getting out the big one and having to clean it. Very thoughtful gift plus chocolates are always welcome whether in a box or an egg
Your steak and mushroom pie Puzzler would be a wonderful present to find on the doorstep!!
Not an actual parcel, but 
my neighbour is in the 'not putting a foot outside' group - she has a lung condition. Apart from that, she is truly terrified about the possibility of catching the virus.
She can't see a part of her garden that is beyond the fence, in the front of her house. I know how much she loves her peony bush and it has so many buds at the moment - I've never seen it flower so prolifically. So I am taking photographs of it once a week and sending them to her so she can see the progress, and eventually it will be covered in beautiful pink flowers.
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