Yes, arrived this week. All the way from Oz. I know you have to post early for forrin parts but wow!
John
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It was last years, just arrived
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He probably sent it to himself :)
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pah. Years ago when I was 'in trade' I had all mine written by early August. Posted late Oct then worked 7 days a week until late on the 24th. Working in retail for myself I hated the C word with a vengeance. Still, it paid for a weeks skiing in January!
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I've done all me labels....I'mdamned if I'm writing all those envelopes again.
Our first usually came about now, from a girl SWMBO was at college with. We haven't seen or spoken to them for at least 40 yrs..... so what's the point ?
I pressed the delete button last year, as I did with a few others we'll never see again....holiday meets, etc.
I find it a good idea to draw up a chart noting who sent last year and who didn't, promptness of card and quality...eg. will the card stand up, etc.
Last year I got a note from the postie through the door saying there was a letter to be picked up due to inadequate postage.....It was only a flaming card from some also ran...cost me over a quid to get it ....bah.
Not this year....they're off
Ted
Last edited by: VxFan on Mon 15 Nov 10 at 00:58
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I don't send any personal cards, can't be bothered.
I've noticed cards in business have all but died out in the last five years.
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>> I've noticed cards in business have all but died out in the last five years
My company still gets a pile of cards printed with a company branded sleigh every year, and all 4 office staff sign each one.
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Write addresses?
We have a database that prints onto sticky labels.
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I do now, Z. I think I was too uninterested to set it all up until I had the dreadful thought of having to write them out again.
I suggested to SWMBO a further label for the inside of the card saying
'Happy Christmas to our
Friend
Relative
Neighbour
Son
Daughter
Tick where applicable.
She didn't go for that !!
Ted
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Cream eggs available yet?
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Christmas-themed carrier bag from M & S on 1st November - everybody knows you start Christmas shopping on 24th December
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I never send any and I never get any.
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Printed labels! Might as well just send an ecard.
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that requires more mouse clicks.
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On a couple of occasions we've received cards with the correctly 'printed' name and address on the envelope, but someone else's card inside.
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"someone else's card inside."
and the "newsletter". Pass the sick bucket.
John
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The Round Robin !!! What a wonderful way of telling all the people you've never met about how you changed all the catches on the windows during the year !
That came from my cousin's second husband who we've never met. He also told us about his kid's cars and careers.......didn't know these kids existed until then !
( We've met him since and he is a prat )
Bleurgggh.....or something like that !
Ted
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>Bleurgggh.....or something like that !
Calm down Ted. You need a good movie. Plenty on at the moment. There was an excellent June Allyson film on only the other day, for example, with a very young Joan Collins in it too.
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Sadly, no longer with us.
First saw her in the Glenn Miller story where she played his wife.
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14878295
Not a classical beauty...more ' the girl next door '
Ted
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No, I've just discovered she's moved on, as you say.
We have a long standing game called "alive-aliveo" where somebody throws a name into the conversation and you have to decided without looking it up there and then whether they are still alive. She'll have to come off the list now. Charlie Drake was another that went on for decades after you thought he must have died.
Here's one for you off the top of my head - no cheating. Denis Norden. Still with us?
Anyway, Glenn Miller story is brilliant, have it on DVD and watch it lots, but mawkish though it is can't get through that last scene without sniffing!
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...We have a long standing game called "alive-aliveo"...
Great fun trying to guess if someone's dead.
A few years ago, the quiz master at our local pub used to announce a celebrity had died, but who was actually still with us.
The trick, he told me, was to pick someone who could have died.
For example, a soap actor who was prominent some time ago, but whose career had stalled.
One night he picked ex-Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan.
"Duncan's dead," he declared, and went on to have a bit of fun with the audience over the non-demise.
A short time later a young lad approached him.
"I don't think saying Peter Duncan's dead is very funny," said the lad. "He's my cousin."
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HeHe.......the grim reaper spares no-one. As Jim Morrison sang...' No-one here gets out alive '.
Cranky...have a look at that website, ' Find a grave '.
Fascinating to put faces to names and vice-versa.
The on-line cemetery is interesting.
Morbid.
Ted
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>> ...We have a long standing game called "alive-aliveo"...
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>> Great fun trying to guess if someone's dead.
even more fun trying to guess who will die:
www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/
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So how come there were not 5 million people betting on Hurricane Higgins?
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Ah Glenn Miller
I managed to find the plaque erected at a long gone airfield in a Northants field to commemorate his last "Hanger" concert in the UK.
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I must have a couple of dozen LPs and even an EP.
Got all the USAAF broadcast recordings from the war.........great stuff.
A lot on CD now.
Ted
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And whats even more sniffy is the fact he was shot down (probably) by friendly fire!
Orchestra wives is the best Glenn Miller film, followed by Sun Valley Serenade hmmmm the close harmonies of Tex Beneke and the squadronaires.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIQq1j1-AQU&feature=fvst
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I absolutely love every track they made but this is the one that beats all the others for me..a little less well known, from 1941, it has everything, the band, the group and the soloist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4o58-RzylY
The characteristic tones ofr his orchestra are shown well in this piece.
Going for me tea...see y'all later.
Ted
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This could be in the London thread, but Highgate cemetery is worth a visit.
The star turn is, of course, Karl Marx, but the rest of it is surprisingly overgrown, with gravestones arranged higgledy-piggledy and sticking out of the ground at odd angles.
Wandering along the winding pathways feels like being in a country churchyard.
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Oh yes - fascinating place indeed
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"but Highgate cemetery is worth a visit."
You might bump into George Michael, that's his manor.
He might offer you a puff or two.
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Thats hampstead Heath
unless he is so stoned he got lost again.
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...You might bump into George Michael, that's his manor...
Only since he made a lot of dough - brought up in Bushey in Hertfordshire.
Lots of bubbles around Finsbury Park, so he could have family connections in the area.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/george-michael.html
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I met him in a restaurant in London when we were celebrating my business partner's birthday. He was at a table with his other half, Kylie, One of the Kemp brothers and his wife Shirley and a couple of others. We were fairly drunk and eventually started tormenting them but they took it well and we got loads of photos and a string of autographs on napkins
It was his boyfriend's (Is it Kenny something) birthday and late on in the evening a big cake arrived, a little box rose up out of the centre and inside were the keys to a little 2-seater Merc.
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That would be Martin Kemp and Shirlie Holliman of Pepsi and Shirlie fame.
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>>to commemorate his last "Hanger" concert in the UK.
That'll be a clothes hanger would it?
A name like yours too. ;>)
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First Christmas card - Zero
