Parcels

I need to get better at taking pics. I have only one for this post. Like most of my life, it's a work in progress. 

We sent a care package to bear today. 

Dear Lord, it's a bad picture. We had a good box, so we added a box of biscuits (cookies) left over from Christmas, along with a bag of cashews and raisins, some Party Rings...

 

Image from WikiCommons, taken by mattbuck and shared under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution

I got the picture from WikiCommons, and if you're not familiar with them, party rings are crisp, thin cookies with a water/sugar icing and they're made in a factory around ten miles from here. They're one of bear's favourites. The care package also included some noodles, just in case as a fall back if he can't get out, some of the hot sauce I got the amazing offer on, peppermint tea, hot chocolate sachets and some chewing gum that I know bear has liked in the past and that was on a good offer. DH and I just wanted him to know that we think of him. 

The other parcel that happened today was a delivery. I've been considering getting new pillows for a while as mine are extremely deflated. They're more like mats than pillows. In a moment of madness, I ordered some from Temu. They came today. I didn't get any pics as DH whisked them off before I thought of it, but I may have made an error. They were far from expensive, and I think that the pillows are becoming necessary, but I should have paid more attention. They came shrunk in vacuum pack and were microscopically thin. I love it when things come like that, as watching them expand after you unseal the packages is wonderfully satisfying. I guess they went from an eighth of an inch or so, maybe a quarter of a centimetre, to at least four inches and maybe six inches, depending on how it's plumped, of silkly softness and I think that they're still puffing up after the vacuum sealing. But they're big. They're a lot longer and wider than the standard ones that I picked up in the supermarket. I was joking when I told DH that I'd have to sew two king sized sheets together to make pillowcases, but I think that I'll need to get decent sheeting and thread to package them in. I'm not sure that I can cram them into my standard pillowcases. I can see these 'inexpensive' pillows costing a lot more with the extra fabric and time. I should add, I just compared these pillows with those on Tesco, and these are allegedly smaller. They absolutely are not. 

I've been thinking about the beeswax. I've seen a few YouTube videos about reusing the ends of candles and at least one has suggested that you make a small candle and use a shop bought birthday cake candle's wick. I know enough that you need a decent width of wick compared to the amount of wax to get a good burn, and a tiny birthday cake candle wick. I got a pic from Unsplash to show the sort of candle I mean.

Photo by Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash

I'll see how the second candle burns, and I've got plenty of half used candles around that I could add to the pot. 

Mind you, I could end up saving candle ends like my grandfather saved scraps of soap. He never, ever, discarded a sliver of soap but I never saw anyone do anything at all with those thin remnants. I shall have to weigh the risks. 

Hugs and good health to all.