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Very thoughtful. Although once I actually did get around to organising a little reunion of old school friends a few Christmases ago - but it was weird I tell you.
By the way - I saw a lady posting Christmas cards in a red post box the other day - and she kissed them before shoving them into the slot. That's the first time I've seen anybody do that.
Jag | Homepage | 17.12.05 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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You've just reinforced my decision to give up sending Christmas cards. This will be the third Christmas that I haven't sent any (apart from the three closest family members), and it really does ease the stress of Christmas. I can't see the point of wasting time, money and an awful lot of paper on 'celebrating' a festival that I don't believe in, from a religion that I was forced into from birth and from which I gracefully withdrew at eighteen.
What amazes me - and I'm really surprised that you do this, dg - is that people send cards to work colleagues. What's the point? Cards for people you don't see, fair enough, but not the people you see every day, surely? (Last year I had Christmas cards from Muslim colleagues though, so it's a strange old world.)
Ebeneezer Chig | Homepage | 17.12.05 - 12:38 p.m. | #
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You've never received one of my home-made cards, Chig. Trust me - I think they're worth the effort of sending 
diamond geezer | Homepage | 17.12.05 - 1:48 p.m. | #
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Jag, somewhat embarrassingly I will own up to occasionally kissing the mail I post.
Of course doing so does depend on how special that person is to me, but I have also been known once or twice to smack my lips on the old job application envelope too.
I'm weird, I know. But it does make it get there quicker, I'm sure of it...
The Girl | Homepage | 17.12.05 - 2:36 p.m. | #
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Great- so you ARE an old softie at heart.
I was most upset when you advised that you do not give nor wish to receive Christmas presents.
I dare you to visit Polhill garden centre (http://www.polhillcentre.co.uk) and not have a tear or two in your eyes after mixing with the scores of children queuing for Santa and listening to their oohs and arhhs over the Christmas displays.
peter | 17.12.05 - 6:17 p.m. | #
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hi D.G.Iam one of those people that only has contact every year or two with you, so I uderstand your sentiments and can only say that everyone gets busy these days,at least we are, and although it's no excuse life passes by at a rate of knotts then before you known it christmas comes by once again. All of a sudden a year has been and gone.
I bet you are wondering who this is now, that can be solved by remembering where you were two and a half years ago in May of that year...
Chris | 17.12.05 - 6:31 p.m. | #
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*waits impatiently by The Coven Letterbox (they are you know Chig)*
*considers exposition on BW of aforementioned card later in the week. quickly decides it might go down as well as the last stunt and changes mind*
*is surprised that the FOTCR™ spell has reached Birmingham*
*scans memory banks for clues to ID of chris*
Blue Witch | Homepage | 17.12.05 - 8:20 p.m. | #
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Sorry BW - it turns out chris mistakenly thought I was another, different, 'diamond geezer'.
It's so easily done.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 17.12.05 - 8:22 p.m. | #
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Printer ink is more expensive than bollinger champagne,
GW | Homepage | 17.12.05 - 8:23 p.m. | #
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Re the "we really must get together " on cards from people you have not seen for years. Last year I had one which said "if we don't do it soon, we will be on our zimmer frames and it wil be too late" So 150 miles on a National Express coach to my home town(now that's an interesting phrase - home town ie a place where I am now a total stranger and my accent instantly has me sussed as not local !) later I found no- one waiting to meet me. I stared at everyone the right age /sex wondering why the hell we had not exchanged recent photos Then suddenly I heard some one call my nick name from school - a name not even my present family knows - and that was the start of a fantastic day - transported back to a time when we had great hopes and no responibilities . Go ahead use that "tiny probability of either of us deciding to make it happen"- arrange a reunion, could be a disaster, could be fun.
elaine | 18.12.05 - 12:16 a.m. | #
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Onetrackmindgirl: Fascinating that you say that kissing the letters apparently makes them get there quicker. Somehow I want to really believe that it does - because it's awfully romantic to think so. But regardless - There's something really elegant about the act: very stylish and full of flair.
Jag | Homepage | 18.12.05 - 12:17 a.m. | #
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I hate Lexmark.
gimmerugga | 18.12.05 - 9:54 p.m. | #
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I never send Christams cards, but still manage to receive at 10-15 each year.
It's like a little game seeing how long friends and relatives will persist, year after year, without ever receiving a card in return. Last year two people who have sent me cards for at least 12 years finally gave up.
Carolyn | 19.12.05 - 2:24 a.m. | #
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I'm surprised you don't have all the addresses in a database and print the envelopes as well.
Elsie | Homepage | 19.12.05 - 8:13 a.m. | #
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about round robin letters:
you'll be wanting this book then:
The Hamster That Loved Puccini
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obi...9493921-
0679046
as for writing Xmas cards, well
that the wife's role in our household
Jon Allen | 21.12.05 - 1:48 p.m. | #
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