BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 08:37 AM

To my still anonymous Santa --

Package arrived in yesterday's post -- and I HAD to open it in the car (Curmudgeon was driving so I could do that more or less safely) which was made complicated by bulky winter attire, car on curvy road, etcet etcet.

Lovely stuff! Flamingo cross-stitch (Flamingoes? Moi?!?), earrings(es), burgundy velvet stole/scarf... Thank you!

Plus the threat, I mean, promise of more to come by New Year's. Hmmm...now THAT's a hint. Narrows it down to...the people I'd already been suspecting.

Argh!!!!

Happy Christmas! And thank you!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST,S's (the flute)SS more commonly known: Eye
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 08:55 AM

Hi Sarah

I'm glad you like your pressies, it was my pleasure to hand make you deckies, my own tree is filled with things I have made over the years. It is always a guess when you are making/giving to someone you don't know.   I missed the'Iopened Mt pressie' thread, off to find it now.

Have a very happy new year.

Jillie

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: My guru always said
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 02:29 PM

Well, I have a Huge thankyou to my Dear Secret Santa for my very thoughtfully chosen gifts, I feel really spoilt!

Beautifully crafted beeswax candles shaped as pine cones, just gorgeous! The Swarowski crystal earrings are very special indeed & I was delighted to find the stone from the Maumee River and to read some of the areas history.

Thank you so much to Escapee for being such a considerate Santa, I have been blessed by this contact with you. Festive greetings to you and wishing You & Yours Health & Happiness for the New Year!
Love & Hugs,
Hil x

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: maire-aine
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 03:57 PM

My pressie arrived today. Thank you, Secret Santa, for all the lovely goodies from Arizona. I can't wait to make the soup & guacamole. I'll try the jelly on toast tomorrow. And I'll be online checking out the hierloom seeds, etc. I haven't guessed your identity, so I'm waiting for more clues.

Happy New Year,

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 04:23 PM

We at Santa's workshops are glad to hear that the camels finally arrived. The clues are in the cards... ;-)

~ Santa's team

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Barb'ry
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 06:23 PM

Thank you for all my pressies, oh secretive one! Most have now departed - burned, eaten and drunken.. But I STILL don't know who you are!!! Please put me out of my misery
love from your even more rotund santee

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST,Barb'ry's satisfied Secret Santa
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 06:43 PM

Well, my dear, I'm glad my offerings pleased you - I only wish the purse strings this year hadn't been so tight! The elves and I had to do our best with limited resources, which isn't the way we like to work at all.
But there is a fairly large clue in the form of the most durable of the gifts ... you will, I think, have heard my voice in a non-ho ho ho kind of way ...

SS

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST,Maire-Aine's Secret Santa
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 09:21 PM

Sorry, 6:23 pm was us!

~ M-A's SSs

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Escapee
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 11:03 PM

Happy Holidays, MGAS. I was pretty sure the chocolate covered cats would turn out badly.
Love,
Marty

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 09:00 AM

Mine hasn't arrived yet.....

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: RangerSteve
Date: 13 Jan 09 - 03:44 PM

My present arrived last week, but my computer was in the shop. I'm just getting back on line today. Anyway, my SS lives in Earlwood, NSW, Australia, and that's all I know. I got two very good cookbooks (now I have to figure out what the U.S. equivalents of some Aussie names for ingredients and utensils). A photo book of early Sydney, a toy stuffed Crimson Rosella (an Aussie wild bird) that sings, and a few other Aussie souvenirs. Thanks. I love the bird, It's sitting in my Christmas tree.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Jan 09 - 12:01 PM

Dear Santa,
Thank you for my clock. It arrived on Friday. I shall take it to the park, as several crew members have complained because we don't have a clock in the maintenance shop. As for the date of arrival, so worries. I just had Christmas with my family a few days before that, so it's still Christmas.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST,Foolestroup's worried Santa
Date: 20 Jan 09 - 08:19 AM

Well, I'm starting to wonder if my gnomes have got lost or are still wandering around in the Outback somewhere or whether I sent them to the right address. Three of them should have arrived well before Christmas and the final one started flying on the 15th of January and should reach you soon, hopefully..... Any news???

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 11:14 PM

Revisiting this thread to let my Santa know that the wine has had an occasion to be opened.

Mixed reviews in the apple (not bad, but we didn't probably choose the best dish with it) but thumbs up on the blueberry. Wonderful with sweet creamy dessert dishes. I have a favorite sweet yogurt and strawberry dish that went beautifully with it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 07:58 AM

Mine never came...

But I understand the elves in question were caught up in the equivalent of a North Pole tsunami and circumstances prevented delivery of not just mine.


Oh, well. Maybe next year.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 10:08 AM

SRS - glad you liked them. I'll remember your choice of food to go with the blueberry the next time I buy some.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 01:31 PM

Anyone else without a Santa gift? I just forwarded one this morning from a rescue santa, anyone else will have to wait until I get back from dahn undah for me to sort it.

SECSY
LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 07:40 AM

SNNIIIFFFFFFF...................

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST,Foolestroupe's Santa of 2009 has resigned!
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 07:50 AM

Well, I never did hear from Foolestroupe so I don't know if my gnomes went to the right address with the 4 parcels. Which is a real shame as a lot of thought and care went into those parcels not to mention all the funds for transpoting them across the globe. Didn't hear anything on the thread either, perhaps my Santee wasn't impressed. If the address was wrong, surely there would have been some mention?

I'd really enjoyed Secret Santa previously, but 2009 really disappointed me.

exits stage left, grumbling

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 08:12 AM

I fear I was a bad boy..my first year and Secret Santab punished me by not showing up...and I even left cookies and milk...had to eat 'em myself :>(

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: vectis
Date: 27 Mar 10 - 06:52 PM

Hi Jacqui

I got my beeeeeaaaauuuutiful shawl today from MGAS. It is truly stunning.

Thank you so much it will be one of my treasured posessions that will go with me when i move Dahn Under.

Thank you for all my wonderful pressies. I still love the look on people's faces when they pull up behind me and do a double take at the nodding moose in my car's back window. You can almost see the thought processes...
"Hey lookit that weird dog"
"That's no dog"
"Whassit then"
"Deer, moose maybe?"
"Don't get many of them in Sussex."

The lobster cruets raise a few giggles when they go on the table too.

Thank you for being such a good santa.

Maybe see you both this summer.

Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Mar 10 - 08:53 PM

That took a while!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Mar 10 - 11:49 PM

vectis - are you moving Down Under (as we say it in aussie english)??

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: My guru always said
Date: 28 Mar 10 - 06:03 AM

SRS, I'd been holding onto Vectis' parcel for a while now so the delay is partly mine. Jacqui knew I'd be seeing her around Easter time & posted it to me as another surprise for her!!

I have to say it IS absolutely gorgeous & the perfect colour for Mary. It was safe with me as I don't 'do' the colour red. Any other colour & it would have been a different story though *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Hawker
Date: 28 Mar 10 - 06:19 AM

Dear Santa,
I hang my head in shame that I have not, until now thanksed my lovely santa, whoever they may be for the most excellent present which arrived just after Christmas in January. The beads were really beautiful, and are in my box waiting for me to finish a couple of other projects before I create a 'masterpiece' with them!
The music book made me laugh so much, I sing with Mike O'Connor in the Cornwall songwriters and have a lot of his books, but amazingly NOT that one! very clever indeed!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
and sorry for not saying that earlier, life has been a little hectic and trying here!
Cheers, Lucy xx

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: greg stephens
Date: 28 Mar 10 - 06:47 AM

I wait. And wait.......an Easter Egg would be fine.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: jacqui.c
Date: 28 Mar 10 - 07:11 AM

Same here Ed and Greg. Still waiting..........

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: ranger1
Date: 28 Mar 10 - 07:34 AM

Jacqui, you are welcome to the present that SINSULL tried to give me last night...

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Mar 10 - 08:06 AM

Foolestroupe's Santa, he was a great Santa to me a few years back...I'll bet there's been an oversight of some kind.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST,A delighted Easter Bunny - message for Greg.
Date: 28 Mar 10 - 06:09 PM

Dear Greg

I am delighted to hear you are still alive (I understand quite a few Catters have crossed the Rainbow Bridge since Christmas).

The reason I am writing to you is that when I went to borrow the sacks from Santa to stack with Easter Eggs for delivery I came across a parcel addressed to you in the bottom of one of them.

I can only assume it is your present from your Secret Santa.

I will arrange for it to go into the post in the next few days.

Happy Easter
xxxxx

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Barb'ry
Date: 29 Mar 10 - 11:56 AM

I'm waiting too....

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Mar 10 - 12:30 PM

Could this jolly gentleman be delivering the Christmas Santa Gifts that did not arrive this christmas past?
http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Santa-Bunny-bunny-rabbits-604547_480_384.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 10 - 02:32 PM

Jolly? He looks sad to me... maybe because of what's on the other end of the hat.

BTW... SSs that don't deliver? How odd and disconcerting. Extenuating circumstances are acceptable. No comm as to why is not.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST,Hawker's Santa
Date: 29 Mar 10 - 07:05 PM

Thank goodness for that Hawker. I have been berating KiwiPost and accusing them of losing your parcel. Very relieved it made it to you after all.
Now to go and apologise to the counter clerk...

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 03:33 AM

SiS just told me ...

I'm Sorry, I wasn't looking at the SS threads - cause I didn't take part in 2009...

I don't know how I got a SS to send to me, cause I clearly remember telling SiS that I wouldn't take part - for a number of reasons in 2009, including financial ones.

I don't remember getting any parcel that wasn't expected, sorry, especially any unexpected Gnomes - would have remembered ....

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 03:37 AM

Sorry, meant LtS - wasn't really logging into the Mudcat for months there....

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST,Foolestroupe previous Santa
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 06:28 AM

Thanks for posting here Santee Dear, but it was SS 2008, not 2009. I kinda assumed all the parcels went astray. Not to worry, am still enjoying Secret Santa and the MudCat.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 05:15 PM

My Secret Santa and I finally caught up with each other at the David Jones house concert at Sinsull's last Saturday night.

Gifts well worth waiting for!!!

The Simon's Cat book that was on my list and I hadn't gotten from anyone else (good thing!), notepaper made from elephant poop (no shit, it's cool!), a scallop puppet (blue eyes and all -- squid, alas, were unavailable but the scallop is lovely), "Why Is Daddy Wearing a Dress?" postcards of embarrassing to ask questions illustrated with cute baby animals, Maine-made lavender soap (that not only smells wonderful, but has exceptionally rich lather) and a really neat ceramic cat ornament.

Thanks, Tami (Ranger1)!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 03:35 AM

2008?
Sorry - thought I had replied in one of the SS threads - they did turn up I seem to recall (was not at home at the time), but I have passed thru a lot of stress since then, don't recall all the details to hand...

PS thanks for your efforts :-0

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST,SharonA's secret santa
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 03:36 AM

didn't anything arrive?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: greg stephens
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 06:26 AM

WEll a very anonymous parcel has just arrived, very welcome. It contains three books, one on Doncaster, two on Askern which appears to be a village near Doncaster.Now, I've put on my thinking cap, put myself in Sherlock Holmes mode, and come to the following conclusaion: I think my Secret Santa is probably from the village of Askern near Doncater. More than that I couldn't really say: probably a rather dour Yorkshire person, as there are no chocalate goodies, litle amuse-bouches, miniature bottles of whisky such as more frivolous Mudcat S Santas enclose(eg ones from Lancahire or other fun loving places). Also, as the books contain my favourite sort of industrial coal/canal sort of stuff, I would guess it is from a male type of person. Women are not generally interested in books about Tom Puddings and Sheffield keels(though this is obviously a bit of a generalisation, I could be wrong).
If the said person were to identify him(her)self, I would like to say thank you. I still haven't identified my 2008 Santa!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 08:21 AM

Snnniiiffffffff..........

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST,Greg's Giggling Gifter
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 08:59 AM

Dear Greg

I'm glad your pressie finally turned up. It had got put on a shelf and then mislaid until we were doing a house 'scoopage' for someone coming.

You are entitled to One and a half points for your guesses.

Yes I live NEAR Askern but not IN Askern. I hope I am not dour - I'd soon be in trouble with my friends if I was, but I AM Yorkshire. However you didn't get the 'sillies' as I couldn't tell from your answers just what sort of things you would appreciate eg no smellies,jewellery, toys etc. I love canals and their history, also info about the mines - have you ever been to Cap House Collery, well worth a visit. I am FEMALE!

I will give you a further clue to work on:- You nearly got an additional book/pressie from Bangor which is where my offspring is.

Hugs
xxxxx

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: GUEST,Jacqui's Stealth SLHT
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 06:30 AM

One understands that the Illustrious Ms Jacqui has earned Personal Recognition for her Inimitable and Imaginative Character yet said Personal Recognition is, to date, not yet Forthcoming. One further understands that Ms Jacqui has a case of the highly contagious SantaPleaseDon'tIgnorePoorLittleMeBlues (or she has a case of The Sniffles...hard to tell which with that delightful accent, of course.)

In full Consideration of the Needs of the Lady in question and of the Unavoidably Delayed Delivery of Appropriate Personal Recognition by the Harried Santa Previously Assigned to this Delightful Duty (and to Whom we send Best Wishes for a Full Resolution of the Issues by which Santa's delivery has currently and reluctantly been Interrupted;)

BE IT KNOWN that the Questionable Lady...errr...The Lady in Question shall indeed have her Gift needs met forthwith by the Santa's Little Helper Team.

Yours in Cogitation and Cooperation,

SLHT
cc Liz the Squeak, North Pole Socialite and Bird Wrangler

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 12:55 PM

Yaaaeeeee! I got my present! I have a feeling that I can identify at least one of the senders - this package has been so carefully personalised.

There is some beautiful yarn (fingers now itching to start working with it) and a couple of products to repel mosquitoes, very timely as the Mossie season will soon be starting.

Gifts well worth waiting for and a big thank you to Santa's Little Helpers, whoever they may be.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 01:03 PM

Snnniiiffffffff..........squared.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 08:23 PM

Jacqui gets her package in April--is there any embroidery thread in there? Then you could say April is the crewelest month . . .















I'll get my hat.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 Apr 10 - 08:24 AM

I checked the postmark on the parcel and now I KNOW who mailed it.....

Many thanks beautiful lady.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: Micca
Date: 22 Apr 10 - 09:20 AM

SRS..
"Knitting Lilacs out of the dead land..."?
I'll get my sweater!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa, My Pressie has arrived
From: greg stephens
Date: 22 Apr 10 - 10:33 AM

Well my Secret Santa's identity might be just coming to light. She says, as a hint, that she has an offspring in Bangor. That meant nothing to me in terms of people I've noticed on Mudcat, so I did the cheat's way out and resorted to Google. And it didsn't take long. I believe her name is Pip Freeman, and I thank her very heartily for some very informative and interesting presents, just the sort of thing I like.