The good news is:
Someone loves me enough to send me a book……
BUT the bad news is:
All that arrived was an empty envelope with a huge shark-bite out of it and no contents.
The even BADERER news, as one of my children used to say, is that when I popped down to my local sorting office at the crack of dawn this morning I was told that I would have to phone CUSTOMER SERVICES aaaaghhh!
I wonder if it was this edition?
Oh yes, forgot to tell you – I have finished “A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian”. If you are in between books at the moment the I can highly recommend it for an entertaining but thought- provoking read.
C r a f t y P e o p l e ---- confessions of a lapsed reader 
Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 14:37
Hello! I’m reading “A short history of tractors in Ukraninian” at the moment. I’m really enjoying it. The salt and pepper shakers he bought you are lovely!!!