Box of Goodies

When Hester got a place at Oxford University I was the proudest parent alive! Patsy and I drove her there to start her first term and we both sat in the car and watched her go through the huge Oak Gateway as if she were a princess entering an enchanted castle. I missed her very much. She was never a naughty child. Sometimes mischievous, but always charming, always bright; literate ...if not entirely numerate.... and anyone who knows her........sharp as a tack!!!  I used to send her little boxes of goodies. Health bars, sweeties, teddy-bears and nonsense. I knew the porters at the lodge would receive the boxes and keep them for her. They probably got used to them arriving regularly and knew who they were from. So one time I wrote on the box "The Most Beautiful Girl in Wadham College,
Wadham, Oxford". She got the box. Not because they guessed. But because it was true!!!!