Euro Blogging By Post - A parcel from Birmingham!

Some days ago a Royal Mail parcel arrived here in Sicily all the way from Birmingham. Now who could this be... we open it up and there is jam and cookies and chocolate and some strange looking herbal tablets and a collection of postcards from Birmingham. The first postcard read "... here is the parcel of goodies for EBBP".

Of course! Andrew at Spittoon had the great idea of organising bloggers in Europe to post each other different ingredients and ours arrived from Birmingham. The irony is that we actually spend quite a few years very close to Birmingham in Warwick University :-)

Melissa of Hecticium prepared a wonderful package for us with home-made plum jam, which is still much appreciated in the mornings; some wonderful raspberry cookies, which alas are a distant memory now; a bottle of banana ketchup (still gathering the courage to open that one up!); Gray's herbal tablets that we do like (apparently they are like marmamite you either hate them or love them); two bars of Cadbury's chocolate, since she lives so close to the factory (even if the actual bar was from France!); a Jilebi mix (for an Indian style sweet which we fully intent to try out; and, last but not least, a recipe for chocolate sauce.

Can't thank Melissa enough for the well thought out package and will be reporting on the banana ketchup soon!