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Thread: It's nearly Christmas, so sign up to Secret Santa!
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Adrienne
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Many thank-yous to my Santa for the lovely-smelling gingerbread-shaped soap from Yorkshire (I've never had glittery soap before!), and the pictures and bookmark from York Minster. Also the little robin that I didn't notice at first, that is now sitting on the cinnamon-stick logs of my advent ring.
I'm having a bit of a difficult Christmas this year, first one without my Mum, and other stuff, Santa has cheered me up no end. Thank you Santa! ![[Smile]](smile.gif) ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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cattyish
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Thank you Santa for my beautiful and lovely-smelling things which are so right for me! I'm not trying to guess your Ship guise as I like the anonymity. Mr Cattyish is particularly interested in the chocolate sauce which I think will feature in tomorrow's dinner. I love goats too, so the City Girls goats' milk soap is perfect!
Cattyish, off to make use of my recycled tire Detriot bookmark.
PS I hope the international elves haven't confiscated what I sent across the waves.
[ 26. December 2014, 09:47: Message edited by: cattyish ]
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ElaineC
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Thank you to my Secret Santa for the lovely DVD's and booklet.
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North East Quine
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Thank you, Santa for the clever collapsible water bottle. It will be very handy for travelling by train.
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CuppaT
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I love the cardamom tea, one of my favorite spices! And thank you for the Angel ornament. It went straight on our tree. Wonderful Christmas gifts!
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Roseofsharon
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To my Secret Santa:
Thank you so much for the very yummy chocolate and cocoa-powder covered macadamias. I'll try not to eat them all at one sitting ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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ChastMastr
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To our Secret Santa--thank you so much for the Ship of Fools book, the indoor plant kit, the chocolate and the wreath! Millions of hugs to our mysterious stranger! It has been a tight year this year for us, so this really helped make our Christmas festive and bright.
![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) ,
David and David
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Rowen
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Christmas decorations, very cute.
Chocolate, will be yummy.
Thanks, Santa!
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Smudgie
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Wow, I have been really spoiled! Thank you Secret Santa for my wonderful gift. I hope I am right in thinking you made the wreath yourself. It is really pretty and perfect timing as our decorations are all in storage (and I have been unable to get at them). The cute crocheted penguin is finding a home alongside the one I had as part of my Paschal Penguin gift and is settling in nicely amongst the one-or-two other penguins in the house. And as for the chocolate covered marshmallows, well, they seem to have completely disappeared!!!! Thank you so much.
I have to apologise to my Santee. Although I have your gift sitting here, it has been impossible to wrap it and get it posted as I managed to break my shoulder (right arm, of course - never do things by half!) and doing anything at all in time for Christmas has been a nightmare. I am even typing this a few letters at a time. The Smudgelet has been brilliant in helping but we have obviously had to prioritise. It will be on its way soon, I promise.
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JB
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My gift arrived just before we left to spend Christmas with the Denver grandchildren (and their parents); I opened it as soon as I got back:- A cunning little lunch box
- A 3-D puzzle I do not intend to disassemble
- And the lunchbox was full of Chocolate!
Thank you Secret Santa!
As I write this I have no idea where the chocolate went to. I'll blame Motherboard.
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St. Gwladys
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According to my list, there are still 9 people who haven't recieved:
Marzipan
Emendator Liturgia
Huia
Leaf
Motherboarde
Quoheleth
Sops
Jane R
Mamacita
I have been notified that two of these will be late.
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marzipan
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Our post is a bit sporadic especially with the bank holidays, but no sign of Santa yet
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Leaf
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Just returned from travel, and a package from Foreign Parts arrived while I was gone! I'll open it tomorrow. Merci beaucoup, thank you very much, Secret Santa!
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Leaf
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... and, package opened to reveal: a lovely silk scarf; a CD of Scottish Christmas music; a photo card of St Giles Cathedral; a combo book of calendar and bookmarks. Thank you so much to my generous and tasteful Secret* Santa!! And a very happy New Year to you.
*possibly not entirely Secret ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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St Everild
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I'd just like to say a very big "thank you" to St Gwladys for organising this.
Isn't it nice to get a sunrise package from someone you don't know? And to plot and plan what to buy for someone you don't know? (I think I got it about right this year...judging from the recipients comment, at any rate!)
So, thank you, St G!
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Emendator Liturgia
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Hi all - been away for a few days - and away again on Wednesday: been keeping an eye out for any signs of lost elves or reindeers, but to date none. Maybe their GPS systems are faulty?
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Huia
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Thanks to my SS whom I know is Australian - the broach picturing a koala and a kangaroo with a joey gave it away. I love the way the different coloured woods are used to make the design.
Huia
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marzipan
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SANTA CAME!
Thank you very much Australian Santa for my cookie cutters (a shark, a one legged person and a surfboard with a bite out of it), book and your letter.
According to the stamp/postage label, it may have gone via Iran rather than ireland... Anyway, it's now here safe and sound
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St. Gwladys
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Which just goes to prove that good things come to those who wait!
According to my records, there are 6 people still waiting:
Emendator Liturgia
Motherboard
Quoheleth
Sophs
Jane R
Mamacita
When your parcel from Santa has arrived, please post!
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Qoheleth.
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<hovers at the front gate, looking anxiously to left and right>
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ChastMastr
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So shall we ever find out who our Secret Santa was? If it is meant to stay secret, then that is OK too. I do keep coming back and checking to see if someone has posted "It was me!" ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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St. Gwladys
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Chastmastr, you can guess if you want! IRL, many of us have an idea of who our Santa is, but it's still a nice surprise and it's nice to think that someone we may not actually know has chosen something specifically for us. ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
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Gill H
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No idea who mine was. Unlike the previous year, when he actually turned up on Christmas Day, in the middle of Doctor Who!
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Brenda Clough
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Uh, was that a good thing?
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St. Gwladys
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quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
According to my records, there are 6 people still waiting:
Emendator Liturgia
Motherboard
Quoheleth
Sophs
Jane R
Mamacita
I know some of the parcels have definitely been posted - have they arrived yet?
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From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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Brenda Clough
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I know I sent mine in November. The unreliability of the postal systems is profoundly depressing.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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My Secret Santa is still a no show.. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Qoheleth.
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Nothing here yet. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Kelly Alves
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(Nibbles nails and worries about package sent.)
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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Mamacita
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OMG OMG OMG My Secret Santa ROCKS! I can't begin to list all the funny and personalized items, but ... it's almost like Santa was reading my posts, or, maybe knew a little bit about me. "[S]He sees you when you're sleeping, [s]he knows when you're awake...."
Thank you, Secret Santa. And thank you again, St G, for taking this on!
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sophs
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My Santa sent me a wonderful gift and lovely card, thank you so so much.
Ive been utterly crap this year and failed to send my santee a a gift. I've spoken to st g, and if I can get out to post I will but a combination of baby and illness has not been helpful.
I'm so sorry.
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St. Gwladys
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The most inmportant thing is to get well, Sophs. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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St. Gwladys
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Is anyone willing to act as a stand in Santa for a British Santee whose gift is still on Santa's sleigh somewhere over the Atlantic?
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Ferijen
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Happy to act as a stand in Santa, although unlikely to get anything in the post until the end of next week. Also, my sabre sent me a bulb which is flowering already - thank you!
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Ferijen
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sabre. I mean Santa. Don't type on an iPhone when you're tired and its nighttime...
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marzipan
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I also can be a stand in santa if you need more than one
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kingsfold
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Ah, now....
I have received a rather random parcel which I wasn't expecting. It was sent to me in Glasgow, addressed to a Dr White and came from E. London, from a female with a double-barrelled surname.
Is this, by any chance, a secret Santa that has kind of gone astray and soemone has just seen "Secret Santa" in their PM box from a prevoius year or something?
It's the only way I can think of that a random parcel addressed to a name that doesn't live here and hasn't in recent memory but clearly my address might turn up (other than plain wrong address). Otherwise it's going back to sender - well original addressee on the jiffy bag - with not known at this address.
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Mrs Shrew
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I will happily stand in as an additional santa if required
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Was "mummyfrances".
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St. Gwladys
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Many thanks to those who have offered to be stand in Santas. I will pm you if necessary. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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St. Gwladys
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Stand in Santas have been arranged for those whose gifts from Santa have been eaten by the reindeer.
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Qoheleth.
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quote:
All people have the right to stupidity but some abuse the privilege" *
So says my gift from Santa, received today. Plus a very nice little pendant olive wood cross.
Thank you, Santa (& St G)!
Q.
*The donor suggests that this could be a hostly imprecation ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Emendator Liturgia
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Thankings galore to my stand-in Secret Santa for the hot presents received yesterday: a nice local art (I'm guessing) cross for Easter, two packets of peanut brittle with chilli, and a block of dark chocolate and truffles, again with chilli.
I made the mistake of leaving out the sweets and seems like the household found them before I had a chance to even open a packet - well, at least I've had some of each (a remarkable feat in this household at times).
Again, appreciative thanks to my American stand-in Secret Santa.
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St. Gwladys
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Yay! Which just leaves Motherboard and Jane R, both of whom had stand in Santas who have sent gifts. Don't you just love the postal service?? ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Jane R
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...though on a more positive note, it does mean Christmas lasts longer this year. I still haven't had anything, but I'm looking forward to seeing what my stand-in Santa has sent me!
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Jane R
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Reporting in to announce the arrival of my much-delayed parcel, and to say thank you to my stand-in Santa. How did you guess that I have a weakness for brightly coloured socks and chocolate?
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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Reporting that a small package from a little sweetie. It arrived with a lovely note, sun catcher and page holder.
As a reader, I love book markers. The beautiful Tiffany sun catcher is very colorful and going in my window today.
Thanks so much for thinking of me....
Motherboard
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St. Gwladys
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I think that means that everyone has had a gift. Many thanks to the stand in Santas who've helped this to happen.
So, Secret Santa is closed until September, but watch out for the Paschal Penguin meanwhile!
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"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
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Uncle Pete
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Paging Smudgie! Paging Smudgie!
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