Message in a bottle

If the pen is my sword, then words are my molotov cocktail...
Thanks for all the comments yesterday
And the jam covered ants arenow on strike- will this saga ever end? My better half informs me it's a birthday present so it doesn't matter as long as it arrives by the 29th which means
1)he doesn't know me at all and
2)he doesn't know when my birthday is either

the skill sewing is by lost in the forest I do have a frame for it in case she thinks I'm not grateful.