Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012

Subject: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 12:45 AM

Okay, do your best to tease your victims Santees this year. Log off before you post, use a guest name so the mods don't accidentally delete your silly post, and don't forget to log back in when you post elsewhere. It's also a good idea to not sign your real name at the bottom of your teasing post. :)

Go for it!

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,A Secret Santa
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 08:42 AM

Is this where I tell Nancy King that she'd better post some hints if she doesn't want her presents to be limited to coal and gruel?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney's Secret Santa
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 10:08 AM

As I noted and said elsewhere:

I am Sandra's Secret San
I will send her lots of bran
Other stuff the help her go
Enjoy your holidays, Sydney Sandra!

Prune juice, senna other stuff
Will make your holidays pretty rough
My station's far out in the bush
For revenge you'd have to push.

But perhaps I'll send a fruitcake lorn,
You can consume on Christmas morn
And think of us poor jackaroos
Sharing Christmas with our horse.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,The ART-ful Dodger
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 11:53 AM

So I checked out the security at the Natural History Museum and I think it is safe to say that you will NOT be receiving the Star of India in your package. I hear the Hope Diamond may be an easier mark. Check back here for updates.
TAD

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,The ART-ful Dodger
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 01:42 PM

I have been able to satisfy two and possibly three of your desires but I seriously suggest you call her "Judy".

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Jenn's Jenerous and Jovial Julesperson
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 07:19 PM

Well, if you pronounce the last word of my adopted name as if you were Scandinavian that might work, just about, although of course I know you're not actually in Scandinavia at all and your ancestry might be entirely other. It was the best I could come up with right now.

Anyway, Jennbrooks, your husband's hints two years or so back haven't left me much wiggle room but the elves assure me we've coped with worse than this, so we're getting the whole process geared up now and I can assure you something will be on its way to you before too long. Just make sure you keep up those high standards of moral rectitude and all that stuff and then we'll have no trouble at all.

Now to deck those halls once again, to get us all in a more festive mood ....

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 08:35 PM

Gidday, Santa!

wow, a poetical santa

lucky me

sandra

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 12 - 11:00 AM

The Star of India is in the Tower of London. All you have to do is pry it loose from its setting and send it on. The Hope Diamond is in the Smithsonian Institution in DC -- it would be more difficult to get AND a federal crime. I'm just trying to make it easy on my Secret Santa.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Nov 12 - 08:50 AM

bounce!!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Nov 12 - 10:18 AM

Hmm...Thomas Blood stole the stuff with the Star of India and got away with it. However, his epitath reads (or read):


    Here lies the man who boldly hath run through
    More villainies than England ever knew;
    And ne'er to any friend he had was true.
    Here let him then by all unpitied lie,
    And let's rejoice his time was come to die.

My Secret Santa might not want people to "rejoice his time was come to die."

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Nov 12 - 01:29 PM

In 1900, wealthy financier J.P. Morgan donated the Star of India to the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West in Manhattan. On October 29, 1964, the famous golf-ball-sized stone was stolen, along with several other gems of note, including the Midnight Star, the DeLong Star Ruby, and the Eagle Diamond.[3] The thieves unlocked a bathroom window during museum open hours, climbed in that night, and found that the sapphire was the only gem in the collection protected by an alarm — and the battery for that was dead.[4] They raked up the stones and fled the same way they came in. The stones were valued at more than $400,000. Within two days, the notorious cat burglar, smuggler, and one-time surfing champion, Jack Murphy (also known as "Murph the Surf"), was arrested along with two accomplices, later receiving a three-year sentence. Some months later, the uninsured Star of India was recovered in a locker in a Miami bus station.[5] While most of the other gems were also found, the Eagle Diamond was never seen again.

Wikipedia says Natural History Museum. So did he steal the Hope Diamond?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,CBs SS
Date: 19 Nov 12 - 07:58 PM

Is there a bear about ?
My thinking cap is on for a piratey piece of local vegetation or worse.

Growly on the prowly Santa

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,A Guru Santa
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 04:16 PM

ho-ity ho ho ho!

your pressie is sitting next to me & will start it's long journey tomorrow

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Santa calling Sarah of the Flute
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 03:29 AM

Are you being good?

Gathering goodies for you, just in case.

Lump of coal ready, just in case.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Greg Stephens - size large Rotund Elf
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 01:49 AM

The little elves are helpful, but it takes the big guy to get the job done.

I am on the job.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Batty Santa
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 06:37 PM

Ah, me - what to do. The hint list seems to indicate that your life is somewhat boring...or perhaps ghoulish is closer. Tombstone rubbings, indeed. No, I think I shall just go on down to the cave and pick up ten pounds of bat guano. Fresh or dried?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Nov 12 - 02:38 AM

Interesting about those gems, Rap. When I took my daughter to the American Museum of Natural History we looked at all of those fancy stones - but we were most impressed with the huge pieces of Topaz - you'd need a station wagon to move the largest one, let alone wear it. But if it is that plentiful and that large, that's a good source of jewelry stones for me. No one should have to die to mine a stone I would wear as jewelry.

Just in case my Santa had ideas along those lines. . . :)

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: My guru always said
Date: 25 Nov 12 - 05:22 PM

OOohhhh!!! We were away for the weekend, and when we came back I found I gotta Santa! Whoopee!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,The SS of Becca72
Date: 25 Nov 12 - 05:50 PM

'ullo 'ullo 'ullo. So it's black cats with emerald eyes? Or purple or blue-green? Off to look.
Be good Becca. Be patient. I'm on the job.
Special Santa to Becca.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Nov 12 - 09:23 PM

Well...I'd settle for a large, dark green, emerald. Failing that, perhaps a simple hat.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Becca72
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 10:14 AM

Oh, thank you Santa! I'll do my very best to be good.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 10:17 AM

You lie, Becca. Shame on you.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Becca72
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 11:33 AM

Hey, Sins...I said I'd TRY. I didn't say I'd succeed.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Joybell
Date: 27 Nov 12 - 03:33 PM

What a great hat. Yes! A hat like that would be good.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 04:47 AM

Hurrah! I have a Santa
Who appears to work down a mineshaft.
I am being sooooooooo good in fact good just isn't a good enough word for what I am being!

a VERY good StF

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: ClaireBear
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 01:48 PM

Hello Santa!

Sorry, I've been away. I took my son to Disneyland, which seemed a good thing to do on a Thanksgiving when we've no kitchen, which we won't until my house rebuild is finished.

Piratey produce, eh? I am very intrigued. Arrrrrhugula? Arrrrhtichokes? Whatever it is, I am sure it will be perfect!

Yours,
ClaireBear

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 06:35 PM

Ah, bat guano is a wonderful fertilizer for my overgrown and jungly flower beds. And my resident Little Brown Bat population is smaller than it used to be...I hope because their exit and entrance has been closed and not because of White Nose Syndrome.

I hear they make clocks out of petrified cow patties. What can be made out of bat poop besides explosives and fertilizer?

Linn, the Bat Goddess

P.S. I really don't need any explosives...

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney's Secret Santa
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 09:48 PM

Well now. I haven't received ANY reports, naughty or nice, about S in S this year! Repeated requests made to Elves Down Under (a holey owned Sandra in Sydney's Secret Santa Syndicate subsidiary) have gone unanswered save for one. That came from Elf 429H32 and read

AVHBM SERTW PKLJR RETYB BBHGT
PORTW BZXXX YTWPY REBYT AAUXX

This message contains a key word which tells me that all of the elves have been captured by Sandra in Sydney's Secret Service and are now acting as double agents. Since Elf 429H32 is no longer with us (he, she, or it voluntarily imploded) and no other elf Down Under knows the Super Secret Sandra in Sydney's Santa Kendall Morse Kode I must conclude that she has been naughty indeed this year.

Too, too, bad.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Nov 12 - 08:57 AM

wot! I know nuffin', it's nothing to do with me

sandra (saddened & horrified at the imputations)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 02:12 PM

Santa? Are you out there?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 03:12 PM

Maybe your Secret Santa got hijacked, Sandra. Or maybe s/he was so shocked by your disclaimer s/he had a heart attack and is in the NYCTS.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Joybell
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 04:00 PM

Santa? Are you there?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: maeve
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 04:35 PM

My Santa must be verrrrrrrrrry busy doing important Santa stuff. That's ok. I'm busy stacking wood; keeping out of trouble.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 01:38 AM

Santa? is Rap right??? (sniff)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: My guru always said
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 09:39 AM

A mysterious package arrived this morning! Is it from you, Santa Dear?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,ART-ful Dodger
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 10:36 AM

Mr Brooks. We are having a hell of a time finding the Star of India. Not giving up yet. Maybe a local gem? hmmmmmmm

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: artbrooks
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 11:28 AM

Did I say I wanted big rocks? Nah - doesn't fit my subdued and unassuming lifestyle. Maybe a family-sized bottle of Rogaine...

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Maeve's cretinous santa
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 04:40 PM

Never fear, your Santa is here.I have been very busy, but I finally talked Mrs. Claus into helping to put your gift together.

I have also enlisted the help of a very special Elf to deliver your package.

Do not open until Christmas or it may turn into a lump of coal.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: maeve
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 04:48 PM

Dear Not-At-All-Cretinous-Santa,

Thank you kindly for your efforts on my behalf. Thanks also to Mrs. Clause for her help...and you say I'll be visited by a Special Elf? How very clever of you. I'd best tidy up just to be ready.

I never open gifts before their designated Opening Day. Is that Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Old Christmas, please. I'm afraid coal wouldn't be any use to us with all the firewood we have stacked, so I do want to get it right.

Too busy to be anything but good,

Maeve

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: maeve
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 11:09 PM

Dear Trustworthy-not-Cretinous Santa,

You are as good as your word! Your Special Elf delivered your package to me tonight. Thank you for whatever it holds. I won't know until Christmas day.

Thank you for your efforts on my behalf!

Maeve

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,A Guru Santa
Date: 03 Dec 12 - 10:23 AM

maybe - does it look like a secretive pressie?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Severn's surreptitious Santa
Date: 04 Dec 12 - 01:54 PM

Severn! I've been hearing stories galore about you... I will peruse them a while to see if they all pass muster and decide if you deserve the coal or the smokeless fuel this year.

Be good!

The package will wing its way to you shortly, elves, postmen and stubborn reindeer allowing.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Animaterra's surreptitious santa
Date: 04 Dec 12 - 02:20 PM

Oh Animaterra, you've got a Santa, and you almost know me! And I am hot on the trail of amusing oddities for you.

Ho ho HO!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: My guru always said
Date: 04 Dec 12 - 02:52 PM

It certainly does look secretive, Santa Dear! Apart from the envelope there's no markings on it at all. I was very tempted to think it might be for my birthday which is tomorrow, but I'll be good and put it under the tree *grin* Many thanks!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 04 Dec 12 - 03:06 PM

Oh, my, Santa! How exciting! I haven't been on much lately but you certainly brightened my day!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney's Secret Santa
Date: 04 Dec 12 - 09:30 PM

Oh me, oh my. All of the folks in the cardiac care ward have been very nice this year to a jolly old elf who came very close to snuffing it after reading Sandra's denial.

Ho ho ho! I now know she was just toying with her Secret Santa.

Well little Missy, your Secret Santa should have your pressies on their way to you very soon. That is, if Rudolph gets his GPS fixed. That boy couldn't find Asia without it!

Ho ho ho!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Dec 12 - 09:51 PM

Santa, if you haven't yet got the hat, I'll take something else. Something simple, yet elegant. Forgiveness, perhaps. Or mercy. Or both.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 03:46 AM

thankyou santa

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,A Moderately Secret Santa for OldDude
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 07:31 AM

The parcel's been posted... No opening until 25th December... on pain of a larger parcel containing... green Jello!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Sinsull's secretous santa-type person
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 09:11 AM

Dear Sins,
An opportunity like this comes along once in a lifetime! Keep an eye out for treasures galore! This is going to be as much fun for me as it is for you. Oh, who am I kidding?? It's going to be more fun for ME! (insert evil laugh here)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,A Shimmeringly Secretive Santa for Sharon D
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 09:22 AM

It's also the place I remind Sharon Day (and all other dilettante Santees) that without hints and suggestions the elves are likely to send a Parcel of Rogues for Christmas!
You
Have
Been
Warned
!

Post gift suggestions here, please!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Severn
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 09:44 AM

Santa,

Good to finally hear from you! My house brownies, Hash and McGhee, as usual will be waiting in the courtyard out back of my townshack with provisions for you, your elves and your reindeer. I'll be home this year, fate willing, rather than in a horse-spittle and will look forward to opening up your package first thing. I always enjoy learning about my Santa's home area (I must be an expert on Polar folksongs by now) and have always been pleased with my gifts all these years. Let the mystery begin!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 11:15 AM

Uh Oh
I think I am in trouble.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 02:07 PM

Dear Santa,
Just in case:
I own thirty five assorted inflatable and/or battery operated Santas, lobsters (one is 4' tall), tiny nuns by the hundreds, an inflatable moose head, assorted and mostly deformed flamingos, religious musical water fountains, flyable broomsticks, and just plain copious crap.
I've been good. Maybe you could be too??????
SINS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Barbry's Bodacious Bringer of Ballast
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 03:49 PM

Ahoy, there, Barb'ry! This is yer Santa speakin'! I been scourin' the Seven Seas for the perfect booty for your stockin' this year, and been feedin' the reindeer extra goodies for the trip. They are planning for early take-off sometime this weekend, so swab yer decks and keep an eye on the crow's nest, for an air drop sometime later in the month!
What with the shrinkin' ice floes and the unsettled seas, it'll be a rough voyage but we've seen dirtier weather, so hang tight to yer sheets and make ready fer our arrival!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 05:12 PM

I've noticed in past years that when Santa feeds the reindeer extra goodies his annual run turns into the annual runs.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 08:12 PM

Bet me to it, Rap.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Joybell's Joyous Sleighbells Ringeth!
Date: 07 Dec 12 - 06:11 AM

Yes, O Joybell of the Awesome Possum, you DO have a Santa. Sorry I'm late in getting in touch and I hope I haven't put you through the ringer while waiting. I have an elf assigned to you that you will hear from soon, as I sent him in advance to do research on your likes, dislikes and numerous acts of goodness. As it is his first assignment Down Under, he may be doing some serious adjusting to his new surroundings, but expect a report soon. His prescence will determine your presents, but all I've heard so far is that a Rapparee-style hat is out of the question. His prior knowledge of the holidays there was based on watching an old Chips Rafferty movie a few times, but I'm sure he's acclimated by now. Just in a St. Nick of time!

My Best Regards,
Santa Claus

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Joybell
Date: 07 Dec 12 - 06:29 PM

Oh. Thank you Santa. So good to hear from you. An elf? Do I need to know a password or something? Or maybe the answer to a cryptic question?   I love secrets. And secret presents and secret prescences.
Best regards and Joyous thoughts.
Joy

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Dec 12 - 07:02 PM

oh Santa! You shouldn't have!

No I really mean it. I wish you hadn't. I feel like Scrooge. "Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of things that may be, only?"

Sighhhhhh
So I will dutifully thank you for the bag of creches past and display them lovingly lest I anger you and get even worse.
Those really are the tackiest angels I have seen since the arrival of the singing circling animals from hell with angels fountain.

The twelve days of Christmas promise to be more like the 42 days of Lent.


Not Easter surprises too? I am begging you - no Easter surprises!!!!!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Dec 12 - 09:27 AM

Oh dear! I just discovered that the creche in the bottom of the bag isn't. Fortunately the batteries are dead. What does it play? The House of the Rising Son? The whole lovely display is in the bathroom where I am hoping I can count on Fred to decrease the population. Thank you Santa. I know you searched far and wide for this treasure.
SINS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Jennbrook's jubilant jovial Santa
Date: 08 Dec 12 - 10:26 AM

You've been very quiet, my little friend, but worry not - a package of assorted goodies is now just awaiting a helpful postal elf. Then it's all down to the trade winds and the tides.

Merry Christmas! Ho ho ho!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Anne Lister
Date: 08 Dec 12 - 10:33 AM

Santa? Are you out there? I haven't heard a thing so far! And I am being good, honestly - the stuff that got tipped on the floor was knocked over by the kitten.

Feeling a bit neglected here ...

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,The ART-ful Dodger
Date: 08 Dec 12 - 10:40 AM

Things are progressing nicely, Mr brooks. A local gem in the belly of a beast will have to do. heh heh

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,, Hollowfox's Stealth Santa
Date: 10 Dec 12 - 02:19 PM

Things have been a bit frantic here at Santa Headquarters. The elves are on some kind of work to rule slow down and, though the presents have been wrapped for several weeks (I did that), and a suitable box for shipment located last week (I did that), I've had my hands full with enough minor annoyances to fill an interesting novel (which I'm composing in my head even as I type). The reindeer refuse to deliver anything until Christmas Eve and the backup team of cats... (Oops. Did I say "team" of cats?!?) Oh, well. (Oh, hell...)

I'll deliver the package myself to the post office this very afternoon...on my way to pick up more eggnog...LOTS more eggnog.

Just wanted you to be reassured that you do indeed HAVE a Secret Santa and that Santa is actually on the job and working on sending you some holiday cheer.

SS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Nancy King
Date: 11 Dec 12 - 03:20 PM

Having been somewhat busier than usual this year, I never did get around to posting any hints. If it turns out I get coal and gruel, well, so be it. Hints I might have posted, had I been more on the ball, would have been virtually identical to those posted in previous years, so if my Santa -- who did send me a most mysterious postcard -- is industrious and enterprising, things should be fine. And of course coal and gruel can always be re-gifted...

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Anne Lister
Date: 11 Dec 12 - 03:59 PM

Santa? Yoohooo?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Chanteyranger's Chanta -- er, Santa...
Date: 11 Dec 12 - 07:35 PM

Just letting you know that your pressie is on its way!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Santa calling Sarah of the Flute
Date: 12 Dec 12 - 08:25 AM

Just to let you know that one of my Christmas Fairies has delivered your parcel today. It should be tucked around near the ivy on your front step, perhaps you could check?

Ho Ho Ho!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Greg Stephens' Seasonal Elf
Date: 12 Dec 12 - 03:16 PM

The trebuchet rolled into the yard early this morning, all counterweights were put in place and calculations calculated. The missile parcel has been launched.

It should travel in a large graceful arc, and the reindeer will keep an eye out, giving it an airborne assist if it appears to lose altitude too soon.

Yr devoted Santa

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Severn's smugly efficient Santa
Date: 12 Dec 12 - 05:33 PM

Damn elves are useless - they were ordered to tell you that your parcel was winging its way to you but you just can't get the staff these days! Fingers crossed it will be with you by the correct date - blame the reindeer if it's a bit late.
Santa xxx

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Dec 12 - 05:45 PM

Santa?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Dec 12 - 03:02 AM

We seem to have one or two silent Santas. If any of you guys are having problems please let me know, then we can try and make alternative arrangements to avoid disappointment for any Santees.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Severn
Date: 13 Dec 12 - 09:08 AM

.Thank you, Santa! Sorry about your Staff. Infection. The house brownies, Hash & McGhee will alter their yearly catering to provide for you and your reindeer only. Any extra food will be shared with any other and travelling wee folk and other neighborhood critters who drop by, minus MollyKitty, who is no longer with us. (Check past years' teased threads for accounts of the revelries). I'll be eagerly waiting, as the Secret Santa gift is always the first to be opened on Xmas morn.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Barb'ry
Date: 13 Dec 12 - 09:30 AM

Decks are swabbed and ready for you, Santa! I have a drop of Nelson's Blood ready and waiting (there's a rather nice red if you prefer!) and plenty of mince pies and reindeer treats.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Dec 12 - 09:32 AM

Wow! I never thought about bribing Santa. I'll have a plate of spritz cookies and a jigger of single malt scotch (do they go together? I'll have to test. . . )

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Dec 12 - 11:02 AM

My Santa has been very busy. Another beautiful bag. This time with a stuffed lobster. Fabric not food. I love him, Santa. Thank you.
Mary

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Dec 12 - 11:27 AM

Sharon "DAY-O
Daaay-O
Christmas comes and me want a few hints!"

Otherwise, you just may receive goodies for which you have no use. Shake a leg, pluck a dulcimer or a duck, send some hints, please. Time's a-wasting!

A Chagrined Shimmeringly Secretive Santa for Sharon D

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Dec 12 - 11:19 AM

Anne Lister, you have not been forgotten. I have travelled far and wide and in and out of time to get you things you'll enjoy. I have decided not to travel 500 miles to deliver them to you while you are in New York City (that's a hint as to who I might be), but I plan to get them to the post office on Monday. now if I can get this $#@1 computer to let me fill in the "from" bit. (*&^%...)your Loving Secret Santa. Another (useless) hint - we've met, but there was no time to visit. Love, SS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney's Secret Santa
Date: 15 Dec 12 - 03:00 PM

˙sɐɯʇsıɹɥɔ ʎɹɹǝɯ

˙ɹǝısɐǝ ǝןʇʇıן ɐ sɐɯʇsıɹɥɔ ɹnoʎ ǝʞɐɯ p,ı ʇɥƃnoɥʇ ı ɹoʇɐnbǝ ǝɥʇ ɟo ɥʇɹou ɯ,ı ǝɔuıs puɐ uʍop-ǝpısdn ǝɹ,noʎ „ɹǝpun uʍop„ ʇɐɥʇ ʍouʞ ı ˙pɐǝɹ oʇ noʎ ɹoɟ ɹǝısɐǝ ʇı ǝʞɐɯ oʇ s,ʇı uʍop-ǝpısdn sıɥʇ ƃuıdʎʇ ɯɐ ı ʎɥʍ ƃuıɹǝpuoʍ ǝɹɐ noʎ ɟı

˙ǝɔıɟɟo sıɥ ʇɟǝן ı sɐ ʎɹɐʇǝɹɔǝs sıɥ ɯoɹɟ dn ʇı pǝʞɔıd ı ؛noʎ oʇ ɹǝʇʇǝן ןɐuosɹǝd ɐ pǝpnןɔuı ǝɥ ˙uɐɯ ʇɐɟ pןo ʎןןoɾ ǝɥʇ ɥʇıʍ ʇuǝs ı ʇɐɥʍ ɹɐǝןɔ oʇ pɐɥ ı ʇnq 'ʇǝʎ ǝɹǝɥʇ ʇou s,ʇı ʎɹɹos ɯɐ ı

˙pןnoɥs ˙sɐɯʇsıɹɥɔ ǝɹoɟǝq ʇı ǝʌıǝɔǝɹ pןnoɥs noʎ puɐ ʎɐpoʇ xoq ǝɥʇ pǝןıɐɯ ı 'ɐɹpuɐs

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Dec 12 - 04:48 PM

CB there was a hiccup on the sleigh but it will be getting airborne on Monday. Hoping it will be with you before too long. You just can't rely on these reindeer anymore !

A very ashamed Santa that didn't get their act together soon enough and now is blaming animals

Look skyward

Jingle jingle

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 15 Dec 12 - 05:03 PM

MY PRESENT HAS ARRIVED. i FOUND IT ROUND THE CORNER AS DESCRIBED. I am now really puzzled Ho Ho Ho Santa. It had no postmark and looked like it was delivered in person. Our decorator saw nothing so it must have been a very secret fairy Santa Ho Ho Ho. The puzzling bit was that we have been doing a secret friend at school too and all the wrapping paper on my gifts this week said Ho Ho Ho so I was thinking it was to do with that. I can't get to Mudcat from school (blocked for too many swear words). but thank you. I havn't opened it yet- thought I'd save it for the big day.

Happy christmas Ho Ho Ho Santa

STF

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Dec 12 - 08:15 PM

Packages are arriving, yet some of us haven't even heard from our Santas.

Sniff.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 12 - 09:35 PM

Chin up, Stilly! Your Santa will come through or face...The Wrath Of Jacqui!!!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Dec 12 - 11:11 PM

thank you santa!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Anne Lister
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 12:07 PM

Thank you, Santa - it was clearly wrong of me to doubt your existence! I shall watch with interest to see when the goodies arrive, but thank you anyway.
I shall continue to wonder about your identity ...

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 05:55 PM

I got a message on this thread and a postcard...hope Santa lets me know here when it might be in the post.

I've sent a package (last week, I think) to my Santee. Hope she'll let me know when it arrives.

I'll probably not open mine until Christmas morning (should it arrive beforehand). Things to open will be rather thin on the ground this year. (But, believe me, we're rich in the important stuff -- friends, each other, love and all that schmaltzy stuff.)

Linn

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: jacqui.c
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 04:41 AM

Never fear Stilly - I have every confidence in your Santa, who may be so busy choosing suitable gifts that there is no time to add to this thread.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Batty Santa
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 09:33 AM

Actually, it was consigned to the competent hands of the post toward the end of last week, and should be arriving any month now. Since Santa is entirely non-denominational, the contents may be opened at any time, but do let me know when it appears.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Gnancy's Gnome
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 09:38 AM

Well, Santa's spouse got your package sent off, and it should be arriving in time for whatever Solstice holiday you celebrate. I am concerned that it was packed with due diligence (I suspect not), so keep me informed, please.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Becca72
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 09:39 AM

My present has arrived! Came in the post on Saturday from far far away! 8 more days til it's time to open...I'll try not to cheat. :-)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 11:52 AM

Thanks, Jacqui!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 10:10 PM

I told you: your SS would face The Wrath Of Jacqui.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Hollowfox
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 11:18 PM

Thank you, Bat Goddess! We're getting the tree tomorrow, so the box will go under it then. When I went to pick it up at the post office, the (nice) guy behind the desk asked "What kind of crowd are you hanging out with?!?" I gave him the honest answer innstead of telling him we were a bunch of spelunkers.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 11:22 PM

Hollowfox, I've spelunked. Yes, it was in my misspent youth, but I've done it and I'll shout it out for all to hear!

There, I'm out of the closet.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Anne Lister's Secret Santa
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 11:23 PM

It's Away!! (Sorry, small Star Wars moment). I got your package to the post office today, and told them not to spare the reindeer. It should get to you by the solstice, much less Christmas. My main goal wes to get it to you before you left for your trip to the USA, but if Murphy's Law rears its ugly head, don't worry. Nothing in the package has a short shelf life.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Nancy King
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 09:21 AM

A package -- with no return address -- has arrived, and been placed under the tree to be opened on The Day. Woo hoo! Thank you, Santa!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Gnancy's Gnome
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 09:28 AM

Ah, good. There are actually several wrapped goodies inside, as well as a musical instrument (of sorts) upon which to play "Hark - The Herald Tribune Sings" at the appropriate time. The latter was carefully chosen to express your colour preferences.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 11:32 AM

Glad you got it in a timely fashion, Hollowfox!

So...you just explained you hang out with crazy folk musicians rather than the fact we used to have an unfunded wildlife refuge that included a nursery colony of Little Brown Bats in the ceiling?

Linn

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: artbrooks
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 11:49 AM

Alas and alack...woe is me.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Stilly River Thingy's relaxed sherry drinkin
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 12:00 PM

My, we've been a bit importunate haven't we, badgering Santa with complaining letters. Well, round here Christmas doesn't happen till Dec 25, so you just possess your soul in patience. I have whipped the elves down the jewellery mine, so they might come up with something.You just watch the skies, and make sure there is a glass of sherry and a mince pie put out for me under the tree on the Big Night.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 12:47 PM

Received my package with no return address (sneaky Santa...) but with inside hints (at least once I opened the prezzies) to know it came from the vicinity of Albuquerque, so that narrows it down and I'm guessing it may be from my 2010 Santee...(though it could be from someone else in the family).

I had good intentions to wait until Christmas morning...but I just couldn't.

Thank you! (I'm especially looking forward to, uh, "sipping" one of the wine-filled chocolates! And listening to the CDs. And using the noseflute, perhaps, while caroling...)

Linn

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 05:36 PM

Thanks, Santa! I'll be sure to leave something out.

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,SRS's SS
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 06:40 PM

Ho-bloody-ho!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 12:25 AM

Just meaning that I'll have to put anything up high, not on a normal table, or the four-legged inhabitants will have a wonderful midnight snack. Better take a look at the top of the Hoosier kitchen in the breakfast area - I don't think the Labrador retriever will be able to mooch your cookies from up there.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Barb'ry
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 10:34 AM

I've got a present - it arrived this morning and I've been really good and left it under the tree. Thank you so much! All I know so far, is that my Santa is in the US - I will have to wait until the day to send a proper thank you. There was an empty wine glass in the kitchen this morning, so I assume you didn't fancy 'Nelson's Blood'?!

Merry Christmas
xxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Becca's relieved santa
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 05:21 PM

Becca Wonderful! So the interesting parcel arrived OK. Whew! That's great. In time for Christmas. That's so good. Santa of the Secret.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 06:29 PM

And yet another bag at my doorstep. I was foolish to think that Santa was going to follow through on his/her threat and continue the ugly creche theme. This time it is a soft and beautiful scarf that matches mittens I bought while playing with Jacqui. HMMMMM. Santa remembered the beloved beasts too with cheesy treats and Original Crunch. Had to fight them for the gift bag.
Thank you Santa
Hope it's OK I "peeked".
SINS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 07:51 AM

I truly wish my suspected Santa(s) (two've'em) would answer either my PM or post here, saying yea or nay...

Linn

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Batty's Santa
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 09:19 AM

Watching carefully - are you batty enough yet? Just because you opened the package already doesn't mean any secrets must be revealed before the day. I do feel free to say that you can peruse the performers lists on the CDs and find no familiar names.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,the ART-ful Dodger
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 12:42 PM

THE UPS man says you will have your treasures in time for Christmas. Enjoy!
Santa

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 12:50 PM

Yay! Well, sorta yay. We're heading to Texas Saturday to spend Christmas with our daughter's family, but if it doesn't get here in the next two days it will be here to enjoy when we return...that will reduce temptation, anyway.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Shimmeringly Secretive Santa for Sharon Day
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 04:02 PM

A Parcel o' Gifts is on the way
'Twill soon be delivered to you, Ms. Day.
Stuffed full of Christmas cheer most merry
I hope they'll make you happy; very.

PS The occasionally officious Postal-elves refused to take it without a return address; Santa requests you keep it private!

Merry merry Ho Ho Ho!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Anne Lister
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 04:38 PM

Many thanks, Santa! The postman managed to deliver your wonderful package to the wrong address (not difficult in our area) and this meant we had to go and collect it, thereby making the better acquaintance of some neighbours who are extremely nice people (and he is the local vet). So in addition to a fab pile of goodies (well, I'm guessing, as of course I've been good and left them unopened for now at least) we've got to know some more local people. Double win!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 07:01 PM

I don't git no presents...possibly cuz Santy can't find me here in Merryland where I am instead of in Idaho. So I guess I don't git no Christmas presents, least until I git back.

Sobsobsobsob...and I was so darned NICE this yesr.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Santa calling Sarah of the Flute
Date: 21 Dec 12 - 04:23 AM

So glad that your parcel has been found and will be safe until Christmas! You will need to carry on being good or the contents will magically morph into a lump of coal. Season's Greetings!
Ho Ho Ho....

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 21 Dec 12 - 07:54 AM

Oh no ... perhaps I better open it now...I'm off to an all night party how can I be good ? Oh well coal is very useful at this time of year !

StF

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: artbrooks
Date: 21 Dec 12 - 02:54 PM

Oh-ho...I have a package all the way from Maine!!. And, since Santa Sinsull was good enough to enclose a card listing the contents, I felt justified in opening it - and, as Howard Carter once said to Lord Carnarvon, it contains 'wonderful things'.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Dec 12 - 05:10 PM

That's nice, Art! There are still 2 more delivery days before the holiday, so I'm optimistic that something will arrive here.

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Barb'ry's Satisfied Santa
Date: 22 Dec 12 - 05:59 AM

Welll, o' course yer pressie got there! Whaddya take me fer? Me 'n the reindeer wouldn't let you down, even though the weather sometimes seemed to put the "rain" in "reindeer" if ya get my drift!
As fer the grog, I don't touch the stuff while on the job, but Prancer, well, has refined tastes. I had to keep the rest of 'em away from the stronger stuff, cuz we have many more ports of call before we pull into our own harbor next week.

All the best of the season to you, Barb'ry!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Dec 12 - 01:31 PM

Merry Christmas Art. I have bee opening my gifts as they arrive on my front steps. So why shouldn't you?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Dec 12 - 11:23 PM

my pressie is still on it's way.

so I'll have to wait till the Post Office opens after the Christmas break.

sandra (waiting patiently)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: greg stephens
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 02:55 AM

well nothing arrived yet but that's fine, I like New Year presents

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 03:42 AM

it's like having a birthday month

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Greg Stephens' Seasonal Elf
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 11:56 AM

Has your last mail of the day before the holiday come and gone? I sent it to arrive "just in the Saint Nick of time." Usually once these things reach altitude when they are cruising (i.e., Priority Mail) from a westerly direction they get there very quickly.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 12:43 PM

Well, Santa...I've been enjoying listening to the CDs whose musicians you described as being "neighbors", so I THINK I've narrowed you down to Albuquerque, although in my neck of the woods (New Hampshuh, by godfrey) "neighbor" could mean the surrounding three states and the Maritimes...

I've PMed my suspicians...I do hope you'll gratify me with an answer on "the day" as promised!

BTW, I've restrained myself and only eaten one of the liqueur-filled chocolates...but maybe I'll do some caroling with the noseflute tonight....

Her Battyness, Linn

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 05:02 PM

A PM? Not me - I'll ask around.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Batty'sSanta
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 05:03 PM

Oops...

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 10:31 AM

The hints seemed to point to Albuquerque... That gave me two suspects, I think. I PMed one when I received the package... I just PMed the other suspect.

I do believe they talk to one another...

Linn (who is about to start in on the brandy alexanders, so forgive me if I leave my brain in my sock drawer for safekeeping...)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 06:47 AM

tomorrow the Post Office opens & I'll be checking for my pressie

sandra (still waiting patiently)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 09:36 AM

My post disappeared. Go figure.

My SS is Becca. Thank you for the lovely scarf and cat treats. Thank you for the stuffed lobster. Thank you not so much for the Resurrection Action Scene and miscellaneous creche crap.
Merry Christmas!
Mary

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Becca72
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 10:08 AM

I do believe my SS is Joybell.

Such a wonderful assortment of goodies from Down Undah! I LOVE the hot/cold pack with the covering shaped like a turtleneck sweater with a black cat on! And the black cat figure now resides on the windowsill, where the 2 live ones have been staring at it like it's a long lost cousin...
Thank you Thank you Thank you!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Nancy King
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 12:19 PM

Ho Ho Ho! Linn (Her Battiness) and I have something in common -- We both got gifties from Albuquerque! I got CDs (which I haven't had a chance to listen to yet), "Texas red wine liquid center chocolates" (sounds fantastic!), a southwestern cookbook filled with interesting-sounding ideas, and a cut-out card that looks like fun! Oh -- and let's not forget the nose flute! Thank you Santa! I'm not sure which of us was blessed by Art and which by Jenn, but it doesn't really matter -- both are fine folks and excellent Santas!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

Nancy

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: artbrooks
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 02:36 PM

Actually, Nancy (and Lynn), it was really a mutual effort...but the chocolate booze is entirely her fault!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 03:32 PM

Art turned out to be my sneaky, secretive Santa, Nancy, so yours must be Jenn. Evidently they don't speak to each other ;-) as I PMed Jenn right after I received my package and asked if she or Art was Santa... And my Santa (on this thread) denied receiving a PM query.

What color is your noseflute, Nancy? We'll have to get together for some tunes...

Linn

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 03:33 PM

Santa? Nothing from you yet....
I'm sure you've been very busy...

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Barb'ry
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 06:39 PM

What a coincidence - my santa is the last poster - Allison A! Thank you so much for my bag full of goodies! Lovely yarn (looks like it's been spun/sold by santa) 3 fabulous cds, chocolate dollars, cards, everything's lovely and I was delighted to open it.
Thank you so much for making Christmas special
Barb'ry xxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 06:46 PM

I had a wonderful box of surprises from Hils. When I got over the shock it might be cat food I found a lovely ocarina some homemade chocolate fudge - very yummy a cd of Hilary sining and some great little candle holders. Thanks so much a real surprise!

Sarah xx

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 07:14 PM

Wow, Sarah! That sounds like an exciting CD. . . ;-D

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Hollowfox
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 09:27 PM

Anne Lister, I'm so glad you got your pressie in time. The mis-delivery does sound like a double win; veterinarians are some of my favorite people. I hope at least some of the tales are new to you, and that you enjoy them all.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Hollowfox
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 11:53 PM

Thank you Bat Goddess! The t-shirt is lovely, and the color suits me well. I hope I remember to pack it for Old Songs next year. I Love maps, etc. with notes attached; I just wish there was such interesting stuff to pick i]up in my local fast food joints. Most of my time in New Hampshire has been in the Mount Monadnock area, but I see that you're kind of close to Dover NH. Do you know Poor Howard and Barb Trow from up that way? The cd's look to be a real treat, especially Curmudgeon's. I was going to play it in the van won my way to work today, but the library got closed due to a bad winter storm, so that's a treat for tomorrow. In the meantime today, I got started on that lovely bit of cross stitch. Thanks again!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 05:56 AM

Whoops think there was a lost consonant there ! Mind you that might have made a VERY interesting CD


Sarah

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Anne Lister
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 06:40 AM

Dear Hollowfox - each package in your parcel was a great discovery, and ALL the collections of tales are new to me, although I haven't had time yet to read them to see where there may be parallels with other folk tales. Thank you so much for such a thoughtful collection of gifts, which made Christmas very special.

Now to get ready for our New York adventure!

Thank you again -

Anne

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 10:44 AM

nuffin' at the Post Office Thursday, but there's always Friday.

sandra (aka patience)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Joybell
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 06:57 PM

Becca, You're welcome. Hard to keep my identity a secret especially with all the labels that have to go on parcels. I was a bit worried that the warmer-cat's insides might be seen as suspicious. Good that they trusted me.
Give your furry friends a hug for me.
Joy

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 03:56 AM

Friday came & went ...

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: maeve
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 07:10 AM

Sandra- Reckon your gifts are reproducing as they make their way to you?

Thank you to my suspected Secret Santa(s), Kendall with his elven helper Jacqui. From wonderful dvds and cd starring Himself to a wonderful old songbook, from handmade warm winter scarves for Truelove and me to a box for photos and other treasures, topped off with chamomile tea to help us sleep and good dark chocolate to delight us- the hand-delivered package was packed full of goodwill and fun.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney's Secret Santa
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 07:58 AM

It was put in the post and sended to you like I said. Perhaps the Royal Mail is sending it via sailing ship? Or Australian Customs like it so very much they kept it? Has a narcotics officer been around? -- there were two kilos in there of Good Stuff.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 10:23 AM

maybe it's on a slooow boat to china?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 06:51 PM

Hi, Barb'ry! So glad you like the loot! I didn't spin the yarn, but the spinning mill is just 4 miles away, in the next village. One of the last small-family-business spinning mills in the USA.

...still haven't gotten my Santa pressie. But it's only the fourth day of Christmas, right?

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

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 10:43 PM

Well, damned few other 'Catters live in Idaho, so I guessed that you'd probable guess straight off.

That pen might be easier to use than you think. I would have sent a Shoshone rose but you can only get them by inheritance or if you're a rich tourist. As for a pair of beaded gloves -- they used to cost as much as $1.50 per pair (brain-tanned elkhide, softer than butter, but I offered to buy my wife a pair recently and she was adverse to my spending better than $500.00 (USD, of course) for gloves she'd never wear.

Enjoy the stuff.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 12:17 AM

the roses are beautiful, & the gloves are fantastic, thanks for the link.

sandra

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Guest, an upset Santee
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 08:45 AM

I'm upset because having received a wonderful selection of goodies from Santa, and having been shocked at how much Santa had paid in shipping charges it appears that I am now being charged a reasonable whack of money because I received the gift! FedEx are asking me to pay, claiming this is import taxes based on the declared value of the goods and shipping.
I'm keeping this anonymous as I don't want my kind Santa to feel guilty or impelled to pay any more monies out on my account, but I thought you should all be aware that if you send stuff to the UK the cash value of what you send is now lower than before and unless you check what to write to describe the items your recipient may face the same trouble.
To give an idea, in this case the amount they want from me is 33% of the value of the goods.
I'm appalled.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 07:46 PM

is it legal for a private American company to ask you for money? Who are they paying the money to?

check with someone, maybe HM Customs?

sandra

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 11:23 AM

It does seem bizarre that gifts would be taxed. I'd be willing to bet that some underling has misunderstood the rules of engagement. Refute the charges and see what happens. (My advise only, not a legal recommendation!)

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 01:44 PM

Guest - that sounds rather bogus to me. I quite often send stuff to the UK and have never had this problem. With the value of the gift sent by your Santa, which, I guess would be well under the limit, no excise duty should be added. I would check the Customs and Excise website to see if there is any info on the top value of packages coming into the UK before tax has to be paid.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Upset Santee
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 06:33 PM

I've now checked the HMRC website. These are the rules: when sending a gift from non EU countries to the UK, the value must be less than £36.00, based on rates on their website. That's now. Until the end of 2012 the limit was £40.00. If you declare a limit that's higher than that they can charge you duty - in this case, the value was a matter of pence more than that, so that's why they picked on this package. In addition, because this was sent express delivery, they added the cost of postage to the value being taxed.

Nice of them, huh? And then FedEx add their own charges.

I'm considering what to do. At the moment, writing to my MP comes high on the list, as it seems totally wrong that I can be asked to pay a significant sum for something when I have had no choice whatsoever in what it is or how it's been delivered. It also seems wrong that my generous Santa has already paid a huge sum to ship the package to me in the first place and yet this doesn't encompass any of the essential charges. The legal situation, however, is as I've described above.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 09:00 PM

adding the cost of postage, whatever next!!! definitely Rip-Off Enterprises.

it's a worry, if we send parcels up to the value of 20 pounds or dollars or whatever the local currency, then air mail it it could easily be over 40 pounds.

Maybe everyone needs to make a pressie rather than buy one so it has a nominal value.

good luck, get your MP onto it fast. Contact the media (Scrooge-like govt dept takes money from Santa)

sandra

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: artbrooks
Date: 13 Jan 13 - 09:00 AM

Another thought might be - did they notice that the sender's value was in $US? If, for example, the sender marked a value of $40, that's less than £25.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Jan 13 - 11:09 AM

Good point, Art. Just the fact that it was a gift should exempt it from this kind of scrutiny.

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Upset Santee
Date: 13 Jan 13 - 03:37 PM

Sorry, I wasn't clear - in this case the value of the goods, converted from dollars to pounds, came to just over the 40 sterling. As I said, I had an extremely generous Santa. And then, because the package was sent express delivery, another rule kicked in which meant they could take into account the cost of shipping.
In any case, it's a major kick in the teeth for all sides, and I can't understand how the cost of express delivery (already incredibly expensive) wouldn't automatically include other charges if they know this is the regulation. Which of course they must do - unlike those of us who send very few international packages.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Joybell
Date: 15 Jan 13 - 03:40 PM

It's my birthday next week. Maybe my present will arrive for that.
Joy

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Joybell
Date: 21 Jan 13 - 03:41 PM

Still no present. Is anyone else still waiting?
Joy

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Jan 13 - 01:02 AM

love & hugs to you

sandra

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Joybell
Date: 22 Jan 13 - 05:24 PM

Awwww! That's the go. Thank you Sandra.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: My guru always said
Date: 24 Jan 13 - 03:56 AM

Hey Joy Dear, anything arrived yet?
When's your Birthday??

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Jan 13 - 08:05 AM

I just heard from Joybell's Santa - late on parade but a gift is on its way.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Joybell
Date: 24 Jan 13 - 06:52 PM

Hurray. Thank you jacqui and thank you Santa. Late is OK. I'll look forward to the arrival.
Thank you for the birthday wishes too, Hil.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 25 Jan 13 - 02:02 PM

I got two lovely cds in the mail which I think must be from my SS! Thank you so much!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Joybell
Date: 29 Jan 13 - 06:04 PM

A wonderful present arrived yesterday. It had been all over New South Wales and had Christmas Island stamps on it too. Sandra has just been visiting friends around the state and one of the names on the parcel is a familiar one. Inside are lovely hand-made gifts (a la Sandra. :-) ) A chain of felt hearts with gold angels, a beautiful notebook fabric-covered, a spangled parrot, and a little owl, a callendar, a tea-towel covered in Sandra's trademark -- Teddy bears. The hand-writing on the card! I recognised that too. My friend Sandra thank you so very much. A very clever try at hiding. It did take me a while to work it all out.
Love and hugs, Joy

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Jan 13 - 03:12 AM

moi?

I'm pleased you liked the goodies!

love & hugs to you & True-Love

sandra

ps. the notebook was made by a member of the Embroiders Guild

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 10:16 AM

Has everything arrived everywhere now?