Secret Santa 2012

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I know it's late, but can I be paired up?

I have already made a box for the Milhaven piggies which I do every year, being my local rescue.

Her piggies are all excitedly waiting for their secret santa. :))
 
Max & Rupert say thank you secret santa for their assorted toys,they will hjave great fun playing with those.
Sydney & Graham say thank you to their secret santa for their lovely new fleece,tube,alfafa cubes and Dandelion delight.

and thank you from me too,it was a very nice surprise.

allan
rspca west suffolk branch.
 
Mine will hopefully be going in the post tomorrow! Don't know the posties will react to a shoebox wrapped very badly in silver sparkly wrapping paper... Hope it gets there safe and on time! X
 
bit late i know ...but emailed too- not enough posts to do it via forum.

Thanks
 
Don't forget to address your Secret Santa parcels to your pig!

Don't forget to address your secret santa parcel to your invidiual pig(s)!

Some are turning up at rescues without a name or any indication that it's actually a SS parcel at all, which means you may miss out the opportunity of seeing "your" pig opening his/her presents! Rescues get parcels and gifts at this time of year in addition to secret santa parcels.
 
Just taken my parcel to the post office! It should arrive before the end of the week. :)
 
Mine's just been posted as well - I wonder what the PO thinks about all these strangely addressed parcels :))
 
I'm posting mine later today. I hope it gets there for Christmas! x
 
Posted mine today 1st class so will get there in time for xmas! Cost me a small fortune (not much change out of £15!) and I got more than a few funny looks!
 
Just posted with the 48hr service so should be there Thursday (postage wasn't too bad). I'm so relieved now! I'm such an idiot for leaving everything to the last minute.
 
Just posted mine, so should be with my pigs in 48 hours!
Had some funny looks when she read out who it was addressed to :))
 
Skelly said:
Just posted mine, so should be with my pigs in 48 hours!
Had some funny looks when she read out who it was addressed to :))
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The woman in the post office was intrigued when I posted mine and asked...

Unfortunately she got the wrong end of the stick, and throught that I was trying to mail a guinea pig to a rescue rolleyes :))

I thought she was going to make me open the parcel to prove I wasn't, but luckily the post office lady that I've known for years turned up for her shift, and explained that I'm just a bit mad! :))
 
Will it be done this year? The person who organised it in the past has left the Forum.
 
Yes, i think we should still try and partake in this. Unfortunately Vicky who used to organise it is no longer active on the forum and a lot of the rescues whose piggies at Christmas have got some great gifts from this forum's posters left quite a while back now; But that shouldn't stop us from trying to provide these piggies with some goodies at pigmass :)) .

We still have Walsall RSPCA, Debbies' Excellent Adventure Sanctuary, Becklen, and Hazlecroft rescue who are active on here. I will get in touch with those rescues that no longer advertise on the forum and ask if they wish to be involved and will also contact a few other reputable rescues too Rubgy, Cavy Corner etc...

If someone (very organised lol) would like to volunteer to run the Secret Santa this year drop me a pm and I'll give you all the contact details for rescues I have. But please dont underestimate the work it involves, Vicky spent a great deal of time organising it, chasing rescues for piggie names etc... so please make sure you can commit to it

Thanks :)
P.S

Also if anyone has any rescues in mind they think may benefit please let us know
 
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Sue G said:
Will it be done this year? The person who organised it in the past has left the Forum.
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We were just thinking about this too Sue, we would love to help out in some way if we can but unfortunately as this is our busiest time of year workwise we would be unable to co-ordinate the whole thing but are more than willing to help out with any sub part of it.

This has just brought home again to us what a great job that has been done in the past to organise such a wonderful event.

There are many aspects which need to be considered if the forum is going to run Secret Santa this year and someone will have to take responsibility for it in order to make it a success.

Lisa & Ali..x
 
I've worked with quite a few rescues at Potty for Piggies, we've supported a different rescue every month and we've been running since November, so there's at least 10 names :-) like Crawley, East Peckham, Milhaven, Hunsbury (new face), And Norman Gorman's just to name a few. I am more than willing to help coordinate it, I won't be able to do it alone but I'll try :-) P4P has quite a good rep with them, so hopefully it shouldn't be too hard :-)
 
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Its really good that we are starting to think about this now. It also looks like we have a couple of names in the big red Santa hat to help with this special task although we think there has to be someone who takes overall responsibility for the co-ordination and organisation of the helper elves. Having P4P working along with the forum is an exciting idea as they will help spread the word of the forum and the rescues associated with it. After all it's all about the piggies and promoting the fabulous work of good rescues x)

Is there someone on the forum who would like to step into the shoes of Vicky and nominate themselves as chief elf ?/ - and work alongside the helper elves suffering with blearyeyedness and repetitive strain injury to ensure that special Christmas gift gets to rescue piggies all over the country.

Lisa & Ali..x
 
I will be chief elf :-) I've already enquired within the Piggy Bank to see if anyone in there is wanting to take part, and with my connections to perhaps some of the lesser known rescues, we can find even more names than last year to receive presents :-)
God, connections. I sound like a Mafia boss lol.
 
Thanks both

Sapphire Dreams is Chief Elf or Mrs Claws erm Paws erm... Mrs Claus

Good luck! I will sticky any threads for you etc that you need stickying (is that a word?) Just let me know
x
 
Thanks :-) Once I've got some responses on who wants to take part, then I'll open up to volunteer present givers, and no doubt never leave my laptop again. Who needs full time work and your own business? Lol :-)
 
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