Today we received our three bronze statues that we won at the 2008 Loerie Awards. We have a few others from 2006 and 2007, so they should be in good company. I wanted to unwrap them quickly, releasing them to go and make friends with our other Loeries when I noticed that each bird had been lovingly packaged individually in brown boxes. Beautiful, full marks for attention to detail.

As the statues emerged out of shredded paper, boxes and plastic