BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Edain
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 10:42 AM

Mine arrived at home today! (I moved back to University yesterday but my parents are forwarding it :-) )

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 10:03 AM

Still nuffin' from my Santa either. Yoo hoo, Santa, are you there?
I'm quite happy to wait patiently as long as I know I haven't been forgotten.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: GUEST,Rustic Rebels SS
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 09:11 AM

It's in the post! I promise! I fear the postal service deserves the coal. If you don't get it soon let me know and I'll chanse it up.

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 03:24 AM

I think I don't believe in a secret santa anymore. Who is my santa? I want to know. I think I don't believe in you anymore santa. You make me sad and disillusioned. You shouldn't have played the game if you aren't real. You are the one who should get a lump of coal. I hope you are with the living to recieve this message. You a mean ol' santa, secret santa.

ps, if your out there and love me, pm me. I will believe in you.

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Jan 05 - 07:38 PM

Thank you Santa Sorcha - I have been away for a week but now I am home I can have some more of my goodies. That white chocolate almond popcorn stuff was yummo!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: GUEST,Alba's reclusive Santa Claus
Date: 03 Jan 05 - 11:31 AM

Dear Alba
I'm so pleased you liked her and that she arrived for Hogmanay.
The cards are a clue; they are of the area of outstanding natural beauty that surrounds the place I live. Pretty isn't it?
Love
Santa

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Alba
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 10:48 PM

She's here. My fairy (literally) arrived and She is Beautiful and She is Musical.
Thank you oh Thank you my wonderful still Secret Santa.
The Postcards are lovely too and I suspect are a clue to You...so Ill get on it and when I know who you are I will be in touch.
I have just the spot for my Fairy and I have already called her Fae.
I am delighted.
Blessings and Best Wishes for 2005.
Love
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: freda underhill
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 10:37 PM

dear morticia and Liz the Squeak,

my little elves have snooped about -

THANK you for being such thoughtful (and very secret) santas!

opening that parcel was probably the best surprise present moment i have ever, or will ever, have!!

xx hugs to you both

freda

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 06:09 PM

CET, now that the holiday is over, it's safe to come out of anonymity and let you know that I'm your secret santa (not Radriano, but that was a close guess, folks, since I'm on his CD). Glad you're enjoying it!

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: JennyO
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 08:33 AM

Mine still hasn't arrived yet :-(

Boo hoo, Santa doesn't love me (sniff sniff)

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: My guru always said
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 07:08 AM

My latest postcards are from Biloxi Bay & Navarre Beach, wonderful cards to add to my collection!!

My thanks to my Own Dear Santa Jennbrooks & her Wonderful Assistant Artbrooks {{{hugs}}}
Such lovely Xmas gifts (fabulous earrings!!) & an excellent chase. But is it your address on the packet???

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: selby
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 05:29 AM

Thanks Peg for the lovely prezzies. Santa is really clever how did she know abour our dulcimer, my scotish connections, it beats me!!!!!
Thanks Santa and have a peaceful & prosperous New Year.
Keith

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 03:37 AM

I have just had a day of laughing at two of my cats. Part of the prezzy was some cat nip covered toys, something you do not get in China. Sooty and Kitty went absolutely mad. Sooty played pawball for about 2 hours and then lay on her back licking and smiffing one of the toys. Kitty even decided to have a run around and then decided to lay on her back for an hour holding the other cat toy between paws sniffing and licking it and going into little shudders!

Both are now lying worn out by their exertions, both have lovely contented expressions.

Now I am worried what will they do when the withdrawal symptoms kick in, will they go Cat Nip Cold Turkey?

Just now waiting for Mimi the No.1 cat to come in and see if she looses her normal calm but grumpy nature when she gets a whiff of the cat nip.

Many thanks Laurel, btw the candy is excellent.

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 01 Jan 05 - 02:05 PM

Had a slip in my mailbox to tell me my SS Pacel is waiting at the local post office, it was delivered at 5 p.m. last night so I will pick it up today.

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 06:24 AM

Whoopee ! ! ! ! Finally got a parcel ALL the way from Darkest Idaho!
Now I must contain myself in patience for parcel # 2 . -And also await information that my Santee is finally in receipt !

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 10:32 AM

OK OK I couldn't WAIT until New Year so I've dashed into work and managed to get thru alarms locked doors etc to retrieve my parcel from Psudolus!!!! YaaaaYYYY Great gifts - a CD (yet to be listened to), a calendar - very useful as I havn't got one and its got some nice pics of Delaware AND a lovely "sarah the flute" pewter ornament. Thanks so much ...VERy much appreciated.

Now a message for Jaze - glad you liked the stuff....you CAN be truthful about the CD you know!!!!

Cheers

Happy Mudcat New Year!

Sarah

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Kim C
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 09:49 AM

Aw shucks. (blushing) Thanks. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Snuffy
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 07:53 AM

A lovely little parcel in this morning's post from Nashville - yes, the Nashville, the one in Tennessee - containing some coffee and a mug and a keyring from a diner that's been a tradition in Nashville since 1951. (I guess it does music too).

AND a wonderful CD of my secret Santa and her "Mister", with a wonderful selection of traditional songs as well as half a dozen of her own compositions. I've already played it through twice - wow there is a wealth of talent on the Mudcat.

Many, many thanks, to you, Kim C, and may 2005 bring you all you wish for yourself.

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: CET
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 07:44 PM

Thanks MMario - I figured it had to be somebody on the CD, most likely Mr. Adrianowicz himself, but I wasn't sure.

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: GUEST,Vectis' Secret Santa
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 06:27 PM

Hi Vectis --

Glad you like the stocking stuff. Don't spend too much time trying to figure out a "Mudcat name." If you know who I am, you know my Mudcat name!   Ho ho ho!

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: MMario
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 01:18 PM

CET - the CD is from R ADRIANOwicz? great CD!

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: CET
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 01:09 PM

The Eagle has landed! In my mailbox this morning was a package from Berkeley, CA. It turned out to be a CD of shanties and sea songs, "Time Ashore is Over" by Richard Adrianowicz and singes from the Hyde Street Pier. I have just finished listening to it, and I know that I will be learning a few of these songs. An excellent choice - thank you very much!

Alas, my Secret Santa remains anonymous so I can't send a PM.

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: vectis
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 12:44 PM

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Secret Santa for my lovely Christmas stocking filled with loads of little presents. I will enjoy taking my father back home tomorrow and listening to the CDs and sucking on those georgeous little sweets. It was a really fun gift to unwrap and explore.

I have an idea as to who you might be but am not sure of your mudcat name.

Thanks once again.
Your ever grateful
Vectis.

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 08:09 AM

AHA! Expect a PM, Mister Santa!!

The grateful Allison

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: greg stephens
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 06:55 AM

Maire-Aine:
Thanks a million. Local Michigan delicacies and craft work arrived perfectly on time and much appreciated!
HAPPY NEW YEAR

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Partridge
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 06:47 AM

Thanks Charmion,

I'm wearing the beautiful amethyst pendant and the dream catcher is above my bed,

thank you, thank you

love

Pat

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: GUEST,Animaterra's SS - Still Got You Guessing!
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 06:45 AM

Hehe! Glad you like the CD - the real one will be tons better! (Properly recorded, not in the back room of a pub...)

OK - I'm the handsome looking punkoid with a beard... before what's left of my hair got slightly singed in the tavern!

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Crane Driver
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 08:31 PM

Try again, Sinsull - I did supply the CD, but your Santa is someone else - I wouldn't dare give a clue.

Hope you like the songs, anyway!!

Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: JenEllen
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 05:12 PM

Mine arrived today! THANK YOU, CLLR!!! (that's an awful lot of a.k.a's you've got there..) A book of British Ballads to dogear and demolish. A real treat!
~Jen

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: GUEST,SINSULL'S Still Secret Santa!
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 04:03 PM

Ha! Think you're so clever, do ya? WRONG! Which is not to say that CD wasn't 'in the loop' as we say!

KEEP GUESSING GIRL!

S's SS !!!

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 11:09 AM

I'm waiting for my gift also and not giving up hope!
I am happy my secret Santee liked her gifts, but since no mention of my name came up I will remain secret Santa!
Hope everyone had a great Christmas!
Peace, Rustic

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 08:00 AM

Tomorrow the Post Office opens after it's Chrissy shut-down. Maybe my pressie will be waiting ...

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Robin2
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 09:11 PM

Oops, went back thru, and did find them!! Thanks again, and have a wonderful New Year!

Robin2

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 08:31 PM

I received a letter today from Spain, and I wondered if my Secret Santa Alison in Australia had been being tricky in her Santa delivery. But it was just a lottery scam that for the first time ever didn't arrive via my email! It had an interesting stamp, but the rest went in the shredder.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Teresa
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 08:28 PM

Oh oh, I got the card ... gift coming soonly :)

Happy holidays, alls!

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: CET
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 08:11 PM

Like Shanghaiceltic I am waiting in eager anticipation. I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas.

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Kim C
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 08:02 PM

Hurrah! My pressie arrived today. It is from Emma B, and she sent me a marvelous assortment of exotic chocolates, the likes of which I haven't seen around here, a packet of lovely handmade paper with leaf designs on it, and a splendid book of photographs by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe. It is a BEAUTIFUL book, and no, I didn't already have a copy! Thank you SO much!!!!!! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 07:47 PM

I hate to dissapoint my Secret Santa but the wee elves have not yet delivered. Here's hoping.

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 07:47 PM

Seems that Santa was very busy duplicating himself this year.... more than one person got more than one present....

SECSY
LTS

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Nancy King
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 07:01 PM

Hey Sinsull, it turns out Crane Driver was MY Secret Santa, too! How did that happen? A busy fellow, it seems!

I got a wonderful CD of his songs (really quite good, and well performed, with lots of great lore -- I'm going to try to learn a couple of them!), a pretty wooden pin with a Welsh butterfly design, a deck of cards with Welsh scenic views, a little pin with Welsh and American flags, a lovely picture of a (mostly buried) "Wreck of the Helvetia" on "our local beach" (Rhossili Bay), AND a dandy little cookbook with traditional Welsh recipes, some of which I definitely plan to try! Thank you, Crane Driver!

Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: JenEllen
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 06:31 PM

Yeah, Giok! Initials, indeed....*bg*   Glad it all arrived safely and found you well and happy.
~JE

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: jennbrooks
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 06:22 PM

Dear Mudlark,

Thank you so much for my present. It's perfect, and much easier upkeep than an armadillo--hmm, maybe I can bead an armadillo? Your work--the photograph and cat border on the note--are great.

Maybe we'll see you here where we live sometime--

Love,

Jenn

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Firecat
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 05:42 PM

Thank you artbrooks!!

I opened one on Christmas Eve, and it contained two Night Worlds! I've just finished the first one before coming on here, and I'm going to start on the second when I've finished on here.

The rest of the parcels I opened on Christmas Day, and they contained two packs of temporary butterfly tattoos (which I haven't applied yet), a butterfly teeshirt with butterflies on the front and back, and two pairs of beaded earrings, one red and blue, the other blue and silver.

Thank you again art! Consider yourself hugged!

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: rumanci
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 05:08 PM

WOW !!   I really did guess right and I couldn't be more pleased either .......a fabulous piece of your own craft .......which now has pride of place - with an orchid in it *g*
Thankyou kind sir xx

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 04:52 PM

I have been asked to pass on these comments from Limpit.

WOWWWW!! A mermaid. She's lovey and special. She was named after me? Fairy dust... Oooooooooo!! More? A big pencil from Itasca where? Look what the fairy is doing on the box.....! Can we make the muffin mix now (this at 7.30 in the morning....) can I wear the hair bungee now?

I gather from that, she liked them... especially the fairy dust.

Thank you so much for making a little girl shut the hell up for 10 minutes!!!!

Your letter was wonderful too, such a beautiful picture it painted that I want to visit!

The mermaid made it one piece, as did the giant pencil. We've not made the muffins yet, that's being saved for New Years....

Thank you - all the bits of paper all over the floor were worth it!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: My guru always said
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 12:27 PM

My own Dear Secret Santa's Fabulous Assistant, I have to confess that I'm pretty sure that the game is up! Don't ask me how as it all clicked into place a few days ago. The Locator was no use at all, the postcards were completely crazy, but your previous hints and the Old Atlas had narrowed down the search. Having got the vague location I could cross out those who were playing whose profiles showed them elsewhere.

You and my Own Dear Secret Santa were still on the list at that point as I had no clues as to your whereabouts. My guess was a shot in the dark, but having been on Chat last night I am soooooo sure know, you really were Very Helpful *smile*

Thankyou So Much for the FABULOUS beaded earrings (sooooo craftily clever), they're beautiful!!! Have just got back from a 2 day Santa Run so haven't had a chance to listen to the CD yet, but it looks extremely interesting! Any the books are just my style & even better, I've never heard of them. Wonderful pressies, Thanks!!!

Believe me, you guys have blown my mind & it was SO MUCH FUN! Thankyou both & have a wonderful Christmas & New Year! (Was just going to send this when the Cat went down!!! - have sent you a pm from the Annexe)
ps. is that your real address on the packet or another helpful Elf's?

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 11:24 AM

Hollowfox, oatcakes are best eaten spread with butter, and accompanied by a nice bit of cheese, but if you think that's too much cholesterol cut out the butter. Glad you like the OBDs.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 11:17 AM

And VEGEMITE! I forgot the Vegemite!

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: curmudgeon
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 10:42 AM

Firecat, you're fantastic ! A box of butterscotch, a most treasured Mudcat Badge, a recipe laden tea towel, two delightful, beautifully illustrated cookery tomes (I'll be trying out one recipe today) and another book of aged photographs of your extended neighborhood. Oddly enough, that publisher has its regional US office located in nearby Portsmouth, and on twice Linn (Bat Goddess) has come quite close to working there.

All in all, this was a fine lot of presents, the enjoyment of which will endure for many years to come.

I should really like to thank you in person, Katy, but it may be a while ere we enjoy the correct confluence of time and money to travel across the pond. In the meanwhile, you can send a picture to Pene Azul so that I can put a face with all your thoughtful generosity.

Thans again -- Tom

Subject: RE: BS: My Secret Santa present has arrived!
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 10:21 AM

Owen and I opened mine (from Foolestroupe)and the Honoured First Pressie of the Day. Goodies! 5 pks of Tim Tams, Kahlua (sp) biscuits, Tia Maria biscuits, several rolls of Oz Lifesavers, jar of 2 bars of Violet Crunch, sheesh! I guess he thinks I need to gain some weight! Oh, and the 'rocks' were a jar of Lemon Curd and a jar of Gherkin pickle. Thanks, Robin!

Owen thought the best pressie of the day was the empty box and the rolls of Lifesavers...he spent the next hour putting them in the box, taking them out of the box.....hee hee.