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Both for giving and receiving, what I really like is a nice, thoughtful present; something that says I really thought that you *specifically* might like to receive this from me. 

The miniMinx knows I like a fountain pen and she saw this and gave it to me for Christmas: a Bic disposable fountain pen. And I was delighted with it, not because I thought it would be a great pen but because of the thought that had gone into the gift, and do you know what? It's the best pen I've written with in AGES. Would recommend. 

It is pictured on the table top of the train I took from Chorley to Salford Crescent, this evening, to meet Simon for a bite to eat at Porta on Chapel Street in Salford. He'd been to the opening night and said it was very good, which, happily, turned out to be the case. 

We had a lovely meal and pondered how to put the world to rights until the Minx came to pick me up, which I'd asked her to do partly because the trains are, once again, all over the place but mainly because I love being in the car with her, chatting while she drives. 

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Reading: 'The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook' by Michael Brooks