A gift basket for a friend

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When we had our first indoor house concert we rang the party hire place to order 50 white plastic chairs. When the proprietor learnt that we were not taking a profit from the evening but giving the door sales to the musicians, he refused to let us pay for the chairs. We thought this was very generous of him as he makes his living hiring out party equipment. Since then, he has never let us pay for the chairs and with the last concert he rang at the last minute to see if we needed chairs as the weather looked bad and he thought we might need to hold the concert indoors. Mostly he delivers them and sometimes we pick them up with the trailer. Although we send him free tickets for each concert, he is rarely able to come. So this Christmas we decided we’d give him a gift basket. To me, gift baskets always look really attractive but sometimes the bottom half is filled with tissue paper and the only ones I like are very expensive. So we chose an attractive basket from the op shop (thrift store) and filled it ourselves, mostly with local products – a bottle of wine, some home-make jams and a few other bits and pieces including a collection of short stories from my writing group. So delivering the basket is now on our to-do list.