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Thread: Secret Santa 2012
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JB
Independent Thinker
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You've been busy
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You learn, you live
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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MB and JB: packages in the post.
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In Memory of Miss Molly, TimC, Gambit, KenWritez, koheleth, Leetle Masha, JLG, Genevieve, Erin, RuthW2, deuce2, Sidi and TonyCoxon, unbeliever, Morlader, Ken :tear: 20 years but who’s counting?..................
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Gift posted this afternoon. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Cottontail
Shipmate
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Santa parcel posted today.
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JB
Independent Thinker
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JB got a parcel today!
It is beside the tree (The Tinwork Christmas Tree is not set up yet - in fact it is still wrapped up) waiting for the day.
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You live, you learn
You learn, you live
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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Package arrived via Royal Mail, including an absolutely lovely card. Card and package are gracing the mantle until we get our tree up (hopefully later today).
I have a good idea who my SS is, even though she did a good job of hiding it.
[ 02. December 2012, 23:03: Message edited by: Campbellite ]
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I upped mine. Up yours.
Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?
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jacobsen
seeker
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My parcel arrived, and I sent one winging on its way.Thanks, to whom it may concern.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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cattyish
Wuss in Boots
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Oops, I didn't get on this thread early enough this year. I volunteer for the back-up gift team.
Cattyish, crawling out from under November.
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...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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St. Gwladys
Shipmate
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Thanks Cattyish!
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"I say - are you a matelot?"
"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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James the Confident
Ship's Pastor
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I've purchased mine and it will soon be on its way.
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IN PAIRS
"Mort", Terry Pratchett
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Emendator Liturgia
Shipmate
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I received a nice surprise package in the mail today - thanks to Royal Mail it arrived nicely.
Will be arranging to have mine delivered soon - though finfing it hard to get the white boomer, snow white boomer (i.e. kangaroo) in the mail - it just refuses to hop in the sack!
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Don't judge all Anglicans in Sydney by prevailing Diocesan standards!
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Roseofsharon
Shipmate
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Summoned Santa's elves in plenty of time and they have been super-efficient, as the recipient has already posted to say the delivery has arrived!
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St Everild
Shipmate
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The elves have been shopping, and Mrs Santa now has to get wrapping before consigning the package to Rudolf for onward delivery.
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Meg the Red
Shipmate
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I did try to send sardines, but they wouldn't stop wiggling about when I tried to tape the package shut. I'm sure the problem would have resolved itself eventually, but frankly I don't have that kind of patience.
No, elderkitty is somewhat confused anymore about what does and doesn't constitute an edible object; I awoke in the middle of the night to find that she had tried to eat a bird-shaped felt ornament off the Christmas tree.
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Chocoholic Canuckistani Cyclopath
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monkeylizard
Ship's scurvy
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Package is wrapped, packed and addressed. I will take it to the postman this afternoon after w*rk.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ~ Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
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Qoheleth.
Semi-Sagacious One
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My parcel started its journey across the oceans today.
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Roseofsharon
Shipmate
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Australian Pigeon Post dropped a package here today.
As we had an unexpected fall of snow overnight it is a good job the bird was well wrapped in several layers of woolly jumpers, scarves and socks.
I managed to remove the customs declaration without reading it first, so the contents will be a surprise on Christmas Day.
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kingsfold
Shipmate
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Post haggii are getting rather hard to find just at the moment, it being haggis hunting season and all that. So I've had to entrust the parcel to Royal Mail. Or at least, I will do in about 20mins time....
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QLib
Bad Example
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The elves have been on strike, Santa's got a cold, and the sleigh hit black ice on Friday, but somehow or other something still got dispatched.
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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St. Gwladys, please check your PM!
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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While the Eton Mess fudge is half-eaten and the star ornament is destined for the office Christmas tree of books, I still haven't thanked Santa's Helper yet! I'm a bad santee, aren't I?
Thank you, long distant Santahelper!
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Gill H
Shipmate
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Mine has arrived and is hidden away for the big day.
I have purchased my gift and hope to flag down some elves tomorrow.
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*sigh* We can’t all be Alan Cresswell.
- Lyda Rose
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Dormouse
Glis glis – Ship's rodent
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It's nearly on its way. The reindeer arrived, looking a little chilly and the elves were positively frozen, so they're staying here tonight, being fed mulled wine and mince pies and they'll be sent on their way tomorrow with my parcel for foreign parts. It should get there in time, but I won't be posting it Sweevee (registered) just cheapy.
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monkeylizard
Ship's scurvy
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quote:
Originally posted by Surfing Madness:
A friendly penguin popped by, he promises he's friends with Santa so I gave him a parcel.
Never trust a penguin, at least not until the Easter gift exchange.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ~ Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
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BessLane
Shipmate
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Got my package to my santee mailed out Saturday...
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formerly BessHiggs
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St Everild
Shipmate
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Elves caught (after a ginormous queue in the Elf Office) and package consigned to the Elf Parcel Services in both countries...looking forward to hearing that it has reached it's final destination sometime soon!
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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I had a bit of a delay, but got the package to the Post Office this morning. I think I'm just past the recommended date for getting parcels to the UK in time for Dec. 25. Fortunately there are twelve days of Christmas. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Dormouse
Glis glis – Ship's rodent
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It's left these shores (well, these hands!) and now is on its way.
Please can my Sender note that, if you sent my package to my MiL's house, I won't be there until 22nd, and may not get the chance to post that it has arrived until after the Big Day.
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40 days, 40 reflections, 40 acts of generosity. Join the #40acts challenge for #Lent and let's start a movement. www.40acts.org.uk
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The Weeder
Shipmate
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I am not like so many more patient Ship Mates. My parcel arrived today and was opened immediately.
It is a lovely little wooden San Pasqual, the Kitchen Saint. He in from Santa Fe, via Sant Cruz. There was a hook awaiting him in the kitchen, but he will go on my tree, which will be decorated tomorrow by Weedlet, until Twelfth Night.
It is a really lovely object. Thank you, Santa.
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Still missing the gator
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Sarasa
Shipmate
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quote:
It is a lovely little wooden San Pasqual, the Kitchen Saint.
Snap Weeder. I have one too - which will also decorate my tree when it goes up. At the moment it's keeping a stained glass angel in my bedroom company.
Thank you (not so) Secret Santa - it's lovely and very timely - we're having a new kitchen installed at this very minute.
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'I guess things didn't go so well tonight, but I'm trying. Lord, I'm trying.' Charlie (Harvey Keitel) in Mean Streets.
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Mrs Shrew
Ship's Mother
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Thankyou Santa, my parcel arrived today and is safely under the tree.
My parcel is still being assembled but I calculate that it still has oodles of time if I send it first class on saturday morning. Fear not, santee!
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"The goal of life is not to make other people in your own image, it is to understand that they, too, are in God's image" (Orfeo)
Was "mummyfrances".
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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A parcel arrived today with Royal Mail stamps on it. Hooray! It has three (three!) pretty little gifts inside. They will be tucked into my Christmas stocking (once I get the Christmas decorations up ... I am so far behind!) awaiting the big day. I am so excited. Thank you, Secret Santa.
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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marzipan
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Present wrapped. It will be sent tomorrow when the post office is open! It's not quite last posting day yet so hopefully will get there in time!
It's hard to keep presents secret when you have to write what's inside and who it's from on a little sticker! I'm not even posting it very far...
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formerly cheesymarzipan.
Now containing 50% less cheese
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St Everild
Shipmate
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A parcel from far away has just been delivered....thank you, Secret Santa!
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St. Gwladys
Shipmate
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A parcel with two beautifully wrapped packages aeeived this morning before we went out. Darllenwr and the Smidgen puss are witnesses that I said I wouldn't open them until Christmas.
Meanwhile, a parcel was entrusted to Santa's elves to be put into his sack - just hope my Santee has been good this year. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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"I say - are you a matelot?"
"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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Tractor Girl
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Thank you secret santa for my wonderful Christmas gift.
I got mine posted off yesterday (having missed last official posting date by a few days) it may be a few days late getting to it's recipient, hopefully not but it is on its way.
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Patience, Firmness and Perseverance were my only weapons; and those I resolved to use to the utmost - Anne Bronte
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Gill H
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Finally flagged down some tardy elves yesterday, and my present has been sent - waaaay late. Fly, reindeer, fly!
Hugal's has been sent too.
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*sigh* We can’t all be Alan Cresswell.
- Lyda Rose
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Cottontail
Shipmate
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Ooh! I just arrived home from a weekend away, to find that Santa had been and gone in my absence. I was sorry to miss him, but he left behind a large envelope from an exotic location. I am pretty sure what it is, and who it is from, but I shall wait until Christmas Day to open it!
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"I don't think you ought to read so much theology," said Lord Peter. "It has a brutalizing influence."
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Belle Ringer
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Mailed today, estimated delivery is Thursday Dec 20. Ho ho ho!
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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And, in the grand tradition of saying things late,* I should mention I sent a package to Parts Distant and Only Slightly Known on Friday. Hopefully, if you, O Santee, ever get your package, you'll forgive my odd customs declaration** and bad handwriting.
*I have a close family friend whose loose deadline for sending Christmas cards is St. Patrick's Day. She's missed it before.
**"Please don't confiscate it, I checked your regulations, I swear it's all legal" doesn't fit in those little boxes they give you to write in.
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