I Have Received My First Hanukkah Gift.

Appropriately enough it was an LED head torch.

You know the lighting ring. The 230v circuit running between the sodden floor and the sodden ceiling.

Yeah. That's f'cked. Or, to use the correct technical acronym; "FUBAR."

More details will follow. Once we get the deposit back on the transformer.

It should be fine. We rented it under the English name.

I also received my second Hanukkah gift.

A £40 handheld rotary motor.

Which does, actually, come with an engraving tool. Along with many cutting and drilling tools.

I think it might even work with the water pump I've just, today, discovered I possess.

Needless to say. At the supermarket today I decided to invest in my third Hanukkah gift.

A job lot of Elastoplasters.

As I've already cut my fingers to ribbons.

Which has nothing to do with the, no really, WW2 Stanley Knives and other cutting tools I've been using.

Papercuts.

Wicked papercuts. From cardboard food packaging.

Although that might have something to do with those fingertips being immersed in frigid yet potable water.

Technically I've already received all six Hanukkah gifts.

If you count a claw hammer, knee pads and a consumable work belt as; "gifts."