14 december - Goods from abroad

For all my pontificating about this and that re. the other side of the world... I am most annoyed at having bought some rather lovely pink suede and fur bootees for a friend's 18 month old baby in Graham & Greene and then noticing that they are 'Made in Vietnam'.

I plan to give them to mother of child after we return from Vietnam simply because child will be 2 years old then (I plan, I buy in advance, am good that way). But this means that mother of child will assume I actually purchased said bootees in Vietnam for a paltry little sum when in fact being bought in fancy shop in London they are not that cheap. I still haven't got out of this habit of wanting recipients to actually be able to price reasonably correctly the gifts I give. That's just really bad isn't it????