Official Secret Santa Picture Thread

[Mr Ed]

Thanks for the vote of confidence Mike.

The Americans over on Woodnet had something like 80+ people in theirs this year so we need to up the stakes at UKWorkshop for 2009!

Cheers, Ed

 

[big soft moose]

the muppets at the post office have confirmed that they haven't yet delivered mine ( erm yes thankyou i knew that already, morons) and are looking into why.

I have a spare so if they havent delivered it by the end of the weekend (if you could let me know ed) i will send the other one special delivery - then if my victim ends up with two if the post office ever gets its act in gear it will just be recompence for the extreme lateness.

Next year I think I'll use DHL :roll:

 

[Mr Ed]

Well I assume your recipient will post in this thread if/when it gets to them.

Cheers, Ed

 

[big soft moose]

and here are my wonderous new toys - as i have never in my entire adult life cut a dovetail by hand (the few times i ve done it at all ive used a router.) these will come in handy as i slowly learn my wauy arround propper (non round) woodwork



you cant see it in the picture but tony has thoughtfully made a flat on one side of the knife handle so it doesnt roll off the bench into the vast swathe of shavings that passes for my workshop floor

and the saw handle actually fits my hand - which is a first, all my other saws ( largely plastic handled efforts from b&Q ) have handles that are too small or uncomfortable.

all round a great present and one i look forward to playing with and the challenge ive set myself is to use them to make next years secret santa !

 

[ac445ab]

Hi all,
Some pictures of Italian version of Secret Santa:
http://www.arcadilegno.it/viewtopic.php ... &start=120

Ciao
Giuliano

 

[Mr Ed]

Hi all,
Some pictures of Italian version of Secret Santa:
http://www.arcadilegno.it/viewtopic.php ... &start=120

Ciao
Giuliano

Excellent

I can't say I really followed the discussion very well, but I enjoyed the pictures.

Cheers, Ed

 

[Waka]

Agreed some excellent SS there.

 

[bobscarle]

Tony, I am so pleased that you liked the gift. As I said in my note, I had to think long and hard about what to do. Also I am very relieved to see that you got it in time for Christmas, I was getting very worried!

This exercise has been, in my opinion anyway, a great success and one which surely must continue. There has been some fabulous workmanship in the tools given and some extreme generosity in the bought gifts.

Thank you Ed for organising it all and well done everybody who participated.

Bob

 

[Waka]

Thanks for the vote of confidence Mike.

The Americans over on Woodnet had something like 80+ people in theirs this year so we need to up the stakes at UKWorkshop for 2009!

Cheers, Ed

Ed

I would like to also give a round of thanks for your organisation, I enjoyed participating and even though my SS is somewhere other than Weymouth and I'm not sure that mine arrived at its destination, I'll still participate next year.

 

[Karl]

Ed - me too. Many thanks for organising and i'll definitely be in for this year.

Can I make one suggestion (to avoid any disappointment) - an undertaking from all participants that their gift will be sent by the latest posting date for the service they choose (whether 1st class, standard parcels, next day) etc. I chose to send mine by guaranteed next day delivery.

Cheers

Karl

 

[Mr Ed]

my SS is somewhere other than Weymouth

I'm chasing that bit, I'm probably breaking the secrecy here, but your santa has posted in this thread about his problems with the post office so that should give some confidence that its in the system somewhere.

I'm not sure that mine arrived at its destination

I've PM'ed your recipient and was hoping he would post something in the thread soon to demonstrate that it got there - maybe he'll get round to it this weekend...

Thanks for the positive feedback.

Cheers, Ed

 

[Mr Ed]

Can I make one suggestion (to avoid any disappointment) - an undertaking from all participants that their gift will be sent by the latest posting date for the service they choose (whether 1st class, standard parcels, next day) etc. I chose to send mine by guaranteed next day delivery.

I kind of set that as a rule this time anyway, I also put the last posting dates in the thread for peoples information. I wish there was a more positive way of ensuring people get stuff sent in time, but ultimately you have to rely on people feeling a sense of accountability to do the right thing.

Given that we started talking about this at the beginning of October, you'd like to think that 3 months is long enough for people to get organised. The reality is that in any group of people there will always be some that leave it to the last minute, but I don't think you'll ever stop that.

I suggest we have another discussion about rules when its time to start the next one, it may be that over the course of the year someone has a brainwave about how to streamline things and we can incorporate it.


One other thing is the role of the organiser - I'm more than happy to do it again next year, but I'd also be quite OK if someone else wants a go next time. We can decide that in October perhaps...

Cheers, Ed

 

[wizer]

I'm making mine the next chance I get!!

 

[big soft moose]

my SS is somewhere other than Weymouth

I'm chasing that bit, I'm probably breaking the secrecy here, but your santa has posted in this thread about his problems with the post office so that should give some confidence that its in the system somewhere.

I have been on to the royal mail (yet again) and it appears that they have delivered it to an entirely wrong address in entirely the wrong city (so what precicesly was the point of sending it recorded ?? useless bar stewards)

As the secret is out now I have pm'd my recipient to appologise and to assure him that a replacement gift will be sent special delivery in the early part of next week.

I would add my thanks to ed for organising this and extend my heartfelt apologies to him also for not ensuring my recipient had something to open for xmas. This will not happen again - next year (assuming Ilm allowed to play after this years ostrich up) I will use either the work DHL account or special delivery in plenty of time.

 

[big soft moose]

Can I make one suggestion (to avoid any disappointment) - an undertaking from all participants that their gift will be sent by the latest posting date for the service they choose (whether 1st class, standard parcels, next day) etc. I chose to send mine by guaranteed next day delivery.

Cheers

Karl

You are entirely right karl and I totally hold my hand up / hang my head in acknowledging my failure in that regard - I was unfortunately moving house just before xmas which screwed up the initial timings (and yes i know thats no excuse) then i had this sorry saga with the post office and the fact that they apparently think weymouth and portsmouth are the same place :roll:

 

[Karl]

You are entirely right karl and I totally hold my hand up / hang my head in acknowledging my failure in that regard - I was unfortunately moving house just before xmas which screwed up the initial timings (and yes i know thats no excuse) then i had this sorry saga with the post office and the fact that they apparently think weymouth and portsmouth are the same place :roll:

BSM - sorry if it looked like I was singleing you out as a naughty boy - wasn't my intention.

I also think that those who received gifts should be a little quicker to at least acknowledge receipt (if only for the SS's peace of mind). But as Ed says, these are matters to be sorted before this years event.

BTW, I will take lower bribes than Ed for fixing the draw, if anybody wants to nominate me to organise this years event

Cheers

Karl

 

[wizer]

If Ed is saying that he doesn't want to do it next year, then we'll have a poll nearer the time or something. But if Ed's up for it. He handled it brilliantly.

 

[Mr Ed]

One other thing is the role of the organiser - I'm more than happy to do it again next year, but I'd also be quite OK if someone else wants a go next time. We can decide that in October perhaps...

No, I'm quite content to be organiser for next time, just didn't want to monopolise it if someone else wanted the pleasure.

Cheers, Ed

 

[wizer]

Your burden then.

 

[Karl]

Your burden then.

Agreed. Motion passed.

Cheers

Karl