Toffee Tin

My new Favorite Thing Ever, a donation I unboxed yesterday
and immediately claimed for myself:
Riley Brothers Toffee tin, Halifax, England (1950s?)

"Brothers Fred & John Herbert Riley launched Riley's Toffee Rolls in 1907, using a recipe from their mother."

This tin could illustrate the cover of Barbara Pym's novel Excellent Women (1952).
Food rationing in the UK didn't end entirely after WWII until 1954. Confectionery (sweets and chocolate) came off in February 1953.
I can imagine this 10-oz. (small!) tin of individually wrapped toffees would be a special gift--from the rector's sister, perhaps–– and on Sundays the book's heroine, Mildred Lathbury, would have allowed herself one toffee.
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Another extraordinary donation, from around the same time--this Kommando 2000 car by Schuco, Made in US-zone Germany.
Circa 1945–1949.
I showed it to Big Boss, explaining that the US occupied Germany after WWII...  He's generally interested to learn things.
"My history lesson for the day," he said.

Ebay is always declaring things to be rare, but this really is an unusual item. I priced it $49.

The Powers That Be decided we should put out Easter this week--two months before the holiday--hence my amused but annoyed look, below...
It's true, though, that I don't have anything else to fill the shelves where Valentines were. And spring equinox is only a month away.

There was absolutely nothing unusual in the boxes of Easter unpacked so far. 

We've got lots more boxes though.
I will keep an eye out for a tumbrel. Last year we didn't have one, and Penny Cooper couldn't perform her annual reenactment of Sydney Carton's martyrdom: "It is a far, far better thing I do..." 

The days are getting longer---almost 11 hours of daylight now!--but today it's so cold, the city's public schools are closed. They don't do that until the wind-chill is –35º F, (right around where Fahrenheit & Celsius catch up to each other).
It's my day off anyway, or I'd have taken it off.

Safety precautions must be taken!
bink's dog Astro wrapped his fleece blanket around his head last night:

My friend Kate wrapped up her orphan, Ivy, to keep her warm and  healthy. Lots of gunk going around: Kate is recovering from pneumonia, and Sister has been coughing for two weeks too.

I love when I get reports from Girlettes in the Field.

MT's girlette, Margaret Helen Conway, is dressed for spring in an outfit MT sewed by hand. Flirting with freckles--and eyebrows--she looks a little like Peppermint Patty...

Stay warm, everyone! Or cool, depending on where in the world you are.