Happy (belated) birthday to you ...

There was an intriguing looking box addressed to the MOTH on the back step after work ...

His folks had sent him a belated birthday present ... a "reverse-Pandora's box" full of MOTH delicacies !!!

Kahlua chocolates ... choc coated coffee beans ... spicy bhuja mix ... flavoured coffee ... dried fruit and nuts ... mini Flake and Moro bars ... chocolate fish ... Snickers flavoured Pods (possibly the best chocolate snack on the planet !!) ... tinned black doris plums ... crackers ... cheese ... cookies ... every time he took off a layer, there was another layer of food underneath !!!

And it got me thinking. I mean, there was some weird stuff in that box (little individual snack sized tins of flavoured tuna ... the MOTH loves seafood !!!) It probably would have been a lot cheaper and easier for his folks to arrange a gift basket with one of the local florists.

But every single solitary item in that box (right down to the banana flavoured dessert mix with chocolate chips, because he doesn't like any other flavour) was chosen with the MOTH's preferences in mind.

The most important thing that box contained was a whole lotta love :)