Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: My guru always said
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 07:30 AM

Dear Santa,

Huge apologies for the lateness of posting this, but we have had a marathon Christmas with friends, and only got to the present side of things yesterday while we were recovering as they had all departed.

Many thanks for your very interesting and informative gifts which are helping to tempt us across the world. A Santa who lives in England, but comes from Australia. Goodness, who can that be? One who has been on the Cat since 2003? Could it be a lass named Jenny? O, I think it might!

Huge thanks & wishing you a very Happy New Year!!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: My guru always said
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 07:37 AM

So very glad you enjoyed your gifts Sarah! I thought that the catfood box might come as a bit of a surprise, but everything fitted into it so well. Although it was packed for posting, I decided to pop it over to you during a lunch hour as we live so close to you.

Apart from the Ocarina they were mostly home-made pressies (times are hard), including the delivery. Haven't ever attempted sining (lost consonant notwithstanding), but might incorporate it into a song one day *grin*

Happy New Year!!!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,a Guru santa
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 07:41 AM

I once had a Santa who arranged for a friend travelling in the US to send a postcard & another friend visiting NZ to post the parcel. It caused great confusion.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 09:56 AM

Nothing yet . . .

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Severn
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 10:33 AM

Thank you Batb'ry for the fascinating booksand wonderful CD. They make me want to visit and wander Lancashire. It must be nice to have a brewery supporting your musical endevors.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Kendall
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 03:44 PM

I never even got a rock, or a lump of coal. Santa must have heard about me and...oh, never mind. :-)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: My guru always said
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 03:51 PM

a Guru Santa - am I on the wrong track? Oh Dear......

And I forgot to thank you for the brilliant Margaret Walters CD! Many thanks, it will be treasured!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: greg stephens
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 01:22 PM

just got home from a spell away in the mountains: no present from SS in the post box yet. But it will come, I am confident.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: artbrooks
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 03:08 PM

Jenn is also sad.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 03:53 PM

Ha ha! I got MY present! And it's something I actually asked for!! Thank you, Secret Santa. I will treasure it always and wear ti near my heart...well, maybe not that. I mean, eight CDs hanging on my chest could cause more comment about me than usual.

But thank you!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Jenny Brooks' disappointed Santa
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 03:55 PM

Can't understand what's happened - package posted in good time for Christmas and another destined for the same country reached its target as planned.
Can't do anything about a replacement at the moment but will do when I can.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 02:41 AM

still nuffin' in the post box, but my first Secret Santa pressie 10 years ago took 3 months to get here. Admittedly it was travelling by sea-mail from the US, not Royal (air) Mail from the UK, but ...

sandra (waiting very patiently)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,CBs SS
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 06:55 AM

Hi there

Has anything arrived yet ? I know other stuff sent to similar parts of the world has got there so I hope there has been something for you too. Sorry to hear you have had such a rotten time and i hope that the parcel brings you some New Year cheer.

Your SS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: greg stephens
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 11:15 AM

yippee my parcel has arrived!!!!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 11:22 AM

Got to show off my Action Figure Resurrection Set at New Years. All but Kendall were suitably impressed. He found fault with the historically inaccurate tomb and stone. As if that was all that is wrong with it.
Go figure.
SINS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Becca72
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 11:38 AM

Typical

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 01:57 PM

Breathes a sigh of relief.

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: kendall
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 03:37 PM

My secret Santa came through big time! A book, a cd, a nice calendar, a very impressive cook book, all in a very useful box! Thank you Dulcimer!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 04:19 PM

Well, SINS, Kendal would know. He was there when it happened.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 04:38 PM

Don't you just hate historians?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Joybell
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 06:52 PM

I'm still waiting. My present may have melted on the way. It's going to be over 40 degrees here today. Have to be waiting at the mail-box just in case. Joy

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 07:50 PM

Nothing has arrived here yet, though the package I sent finally arrived. No secrets with the US postal folks - they make you plaster your name on it.

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 03:39 AM

Oz Post makes us plaster our names on the parcel too, & also checks our photo ID, but Catters can always ask someone else to post it!

sandra

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Becca72
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 08:38 AM

LOL Rap - thank you.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: dulcimer42
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 06:58 PM

Kendall, glad you liked Santa's gift. And sorry it was so late. Old Santa's sleigh had to make a couple unexpected trips to Michigan and back and got behind in some of his deliveries to other states!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 04 Jan 13 - 02:33 PM

It's the eleventh day of Christmas, and still an empty mailbox.
Guess I wasn't a good girl after all...

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jan 13 - 07:43 PM

There was a box on my porch when I came in a few minutes ago. I'll check it out in a little while. . .

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: jennbrooks
Date: 04 Jan 13 - 08:18 PM

I have a present! It's really even nicer to have a present after all the Christmas excitement has died down. Anne Lister, are you my Santa? I have a lovely Welsh cookbook with some "speckled cakes" in it that I want to try really soon, a CD by that same Anne Lister, which I will hear in the car tomorrow on the way to work, and a lovely little illustrated copy of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" which I will enjoy for a year, and then share with my grandchildren, next Christmas. Thank you very much! Oh, and I do want to come and try the three walks from the brochures!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jan 13 - 09:13 PM

one day our pressies will arrive!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 13 - 10:15 PM

Doesn't the Warden or the Governor or somebody have to search parcels being sent to Australia? I mean, convicts and all that....

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Jan 13 - 01:40 AM

Sniffer dogs

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jan 13 - 08:09 AM

I protest, Sins. Everyone there poked fun at that thing yet I get all the static!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 05 Jan 13 - 12:11 PM

Thank you, Santa! Santa brought me a collection of gifts from Maryland, a couple of samples being a book of Maryland folklore, and The Boarding Party's 3rd and final recording. Great stuff! Thank you!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 13 - 12:47 PM

Wrong box. The Secret Santa parcel destined for this household is still Lost In Space.

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jan 13 - 12:04 AM

The package arrived today - and I do believe Jacqui has been chuckling over this one for weeks!

I did track down the arranger of the song in question on YouTube - the same party of the first part who I sent a gift to. Ha!

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: jacqui.c
Date: 06 Jan 13 - 02:03 PM

Not guilty on that one SRS. Glad your gift arrived, anyway.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Joybell
Date: 06 Jan 13 - 03:45 PM

Water! Send water! Dehydrated water. Snow melts. Icebergs. Glaciers.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Chanteyranger's Chanta -- er, Santa...
Date: 06 Jan 13 - 11:57 PM

Glad the package arrived, Chanteyranger, and glad you like the goodies! Have you figured out Santa's identity yet?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: greg stephens
Date: 07 Jan 13 - 07:47 AM

That waa funny: having sent Stilly River Sage a parcel 2ith the usual mix of treats, local paper and CD, I get back a parcel with the usual mix of local paper, treats and CD from: Stilly River Sage! That's odd, it's never happened before. Anyway, no reason why it shouldn't happen like that, thanks a million. The coated pecans are very addictive!!!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jan 13 - 12:59 PM

Those "coated nuts" are called "pralines." Not the hardened melted butter and brown sugar puddle with nuts in it that one finds in point-of-purchase racks in southern stores and restaurants, but individually butter and sugar crusted pecans. They looked wonderful and durable enough to ship. :)

And I have a Kendal mint cake to try. After all of the discussions here at Mudcat over the years, I hesitate to open it - what is the general consensus? Are they edible, or simply collectible?

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: greg stephens
Date: 07 Jan 13 - 01:53 PM

Kendal mint cake was taken to the top of Everest by Edmund Hilary. Whether he actually ate any is an open question. I have consumed plenty on slightly lower peaks, and not suffered anaphylactic shock or nausea or anything. Go on, give it a try.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 13 - 05:04 PM

It minty and will drive your blood sugar up to about 1,240 (Richter Scale, not blood sugar scale).

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Animaterra's surreptitious santa
Date: 07 Jan 13 - 05:37 PM

Hello Animaterra,

This surreptitious Santa is also a shame-faced Santa. Things have quite gotten away from me of late -- including your gift, which has gotten lost somewhere in the depths of my demesne. However, I have just arranged to have a replacement shipped to you, and I will just keep the one I have -- once I find it! Look for a small package within a few days.

Apologetically,
Santa

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 07 Jan 13 - 08:28 PM

Bless you, Santa! I will be patient...

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Jan 13 - 09:59 AM

Well, I just checked the list and it seems that both our Australian Catters have not yet received their packages. I think this may be a problem with the post office in one or the other country or possibly a hold up in customs?

Animaterra's Santa has responded to let her know that a late gift is on the way and I'm waiting for Claire Bear to chime in to confirm that she has been visited by Santa.

Other than that, all gifts have been delivered.

I'll give it a couple of weeks before putting up the list of Santas.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney's Secret Santa
Date: 08 Jan 13 - 10:49 AM

I put it in the post. I saw it loaded about the ship. The ship was of Dutch registry and I even met the captain, a really bony fella named Hendrick Vanderdecken. When I told him what was in the cargo he swore it would arrive "in spite of the Devil and Hell itself."

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: ClaireBear
Date: 08 Jan 13 - 12:21 PM

Hurray! My gifties arrived this selfsame morning in a package well-nigh bursting with treats.

Thank you, Sarah the Flute -- everything you mentioned in your card sounds wondrous, and I am sure to enjoy each and every one of your gifts very much! But if you don't mind, I am going to wait and open the wrapped gifts when my son and I have our Christmas, which will likely be in March when we are back in our house. I hope you are willing to wait for more specific thanks.

Cheers and Happy Christmas!
Claire

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 08 Jan 13 - 01:57 PM

You are very welcome Claire
Hope you enjoy and have a great new start in your house when you return

Sarah

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 13 - 09:46 PM

Greg Stephens, I put that CD in my bedside player last night and heard several songs before I drifted off to sleep. Wonderful! I'll listen to it in another room soon so I can hear the entire album. And I tried that Ardbeg this evening - knock my socks off but that is amazing! It is very smoky, but it takes itself seriously and I could stand this on special occasions. I went back to the Question about Scotch thread to see if you'd participated. I got quite a good education as I read through and participated in that thread - you might enjoy it!

Thanks again! (I gave the small chocolates to my son, who loved them. I don't eat chocolate these days, but these Secret Santa parcels are always a family affair. I have the newspaper here for folks to enjoy - I'm sure Moonglow will hunch over it next time she's down for a visit!)

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 04:58 AM

my parcel finally arrived - strangely enough it came from the person I suspected - the person who kept earbashing me! Or maybe he just forgot to log out...

thankyou Raparee for an interesting selection of stuff from your area. A potato cookbook (memo - buy some potatoes), postcards that I'll be able to squash into the area behind my computer along with those sent by Catters & other friends. Beef Jerky is yummy & the Huckleberry lip moisture smells lovely. & I really love the postcard!

I won't try to use the beaded pen as my arthritic finger can't hold thin pens, so I'll display it with my American flag pen & pencil sent by an earlier Santa. I have a collection of beaded embroidery & beaded items & it is my only Native American piece, many thankyous.

And a personal letter from Santa! Wow!!! I'm sure my heirs will be able to sell it for a fortune when they inherit it!

sandra