Look what came in the post! A very late birthday present from Jesse. I was so excited when I got the box at the post office, so crestfallen when I opened it and then so annoyed with myself for not being able to happier to receive such lovely books, which where indeed right there on my wishlist. The problem is they weren’t at the top of it, or even close.

Pre birthday I hinted to Jesse, or in fact directly instructed him, that as many as possible of the top 6 or 7 books on my amazon wishlist would be very warmly received indeed. In due course he went off and found my wishlist, not via my blog (which would have given him the right list), and ordered what appeared to be the top 6 books. Bless him. Not so many blessings for amazon. For some reason Amazon’s default view when you find a wishlist is not ordered by priority, as any rational person might expect of a wish list (most desirable things first please), but rather it is ordered by most recently added. So, be careful what you wish for on Amazon. Or at the very least be careful about giving instructions to anyone who might misinterpret your wishlist’s multiple views.

Jesse is going to try making a complaint and return them, but most likely I will just keep these books and hopefully get the ones I really wanted for christmas… They are lovely books but they were more the “Well if I can have all of them…” books at the bottom of the list as compared to the “If I can have only one, let it be one of these…” books at the top.

The rest of the books Jesse has already ordered are yet to arrive. Luckily for me half of the six most recently added books were also in the top six by priority, so the next box really will be exciting to open.