Yesterday, I received my first Christmas catalogue!

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"Sacha" wrote in message
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Yesterday, I received my first Christmas catalogue!

For 2007 or 2008?
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On 1/7/07 11:30, in article
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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Yesterday, I received my first Christmas catalogue!

For 2007 or 2008?

For this year! Surely businesses won't know their prices for 2008 yet?
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(remove weeds from address)

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 1/7/07 11:30, in article
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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Yesterday, I received my first Christmas catalogue!

For 2007 or 2008?

For this year! Surely businesses won't know their prices for 2008 yet?

I was attempting to be humourous, sorry( Although, I wouldn't be
surprised to see a summer 2008 catalogue, and I bet in a few years time...
But I've seen catalogues for various things (worst culprits are the holiday
companies) for Xmas this year already.
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Due to it's large carbon footprint the light at the end of the tunnel has
been turned off.

On 1/7/07 11:44, in article
, "Rhiannon S"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 1/7/07 11:30, in article
, "Rhiannon S"
wrote:



"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
Yesterday, I received my first Christmas catalogue!

For 2007 or 2008?

For this year! Surely businesses won't know their prices for 2008 yet?

I was attempting to be humourous, sorry( Although, I wouldn't be
surprised to see a summer 2008 catalogue, and I bet in a few years time...
But I've seen catalogues for various things (worst culprits are the holiday
companies) for Xmas this year already.

Depressing, isn't it? ;-(
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http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

"Sacha" wrote in message
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Depressing, isn't it? ;-(

Some years back my wife and went abroad at christmas instead of in the
summer. We went to the Canaries, sat on the beach and explored the island in
an open top jeep. Didn't heard a single Christmas song for the whole week.
Fantastic. Came back when christmas was all over feeling a million dollars -
much better than after a summer holiday. No presents to buy, no need to
entertain visitors, no bottles of booze with naff names. Highly recommended.

According to one report in the UK we spend around £700 per family on
Christmas.

According to http://www.directline-holidays.co.uk/ Two people can fly to the
canaries for a week self catering over Christmas 2007/8 for £816 (plus food
obviously).

"Rhiannon S" wrote in message
...


But I've seen catalogues for various things (worst culprits are the
holiday
companies) for Xmas this year already.
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Rhiannon_s

Holiday accommodation is booked by the companies well in advance. This year
is cut and dried for reunions for ex service people and Associations. I am
now looking to 2009, 2008 being pretty well sewn up. Working in conjunction
of a Group Travel Agent who does all the booking arrangements, I have 17
reunions organised. One of these is for the Battle of Britain Remembrance
Service at Westminster Abbey where I have two hotels available, the other
the November 11th Service at the Cenotaph where again I have two hotels
available and where there is doubt about which weekend for June 2008, I have
a total hotel booked for two weekends. I know that if one is taken by
Association "A", the other will be taken by Association "B". I have just
started an information mail posting for a weekend in February next year.

So sorry if the thought of Christmas 2007 frightens you, (it doesn't me
because I will be on Cunard's new Queen Victoria with my family), but some
of us are well beyond that :-((

Mike


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'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy
Reunion Bournemouth August/September 2007
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"CWatters" wrote in message
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"Sacha" wrote in message

According to one report in the UK we spend around £700 per family on
Christmas.

According to http://www.directline-holidays.co.uk/ Two people can fly to
the
canaries for a week self catering over Christmas 2007/8 for £816 (plus
food
obviously).


£30K for me to spend with my Family this coming Christmas, + costs of
presents and to 'make it worthwhile for people, 2nd generation family so to
speak, to stay on our house over Christmas and feed the dog.

Mike :-))))


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'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy
Reunion Bournemouth August/September 2007
www.rneba.org.uk

On 1/7/07 17:15, in article
, "CWatters"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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Depressing, isn't it? ;-(

Some years back my wife and went abroad at christmas instead of in the
summer. We went to the Canaries, sat on the beach and explored the island in
an open top jeep. Didn't heard a single Christmas song for the whole week.
Fantastic. Came back when christmas was all over feeling a million dollars -
much better than after a summer holiday. No presents to buy, no need to
entertain visitors, no bottles of booze with naff names. Highly recommended.

Believe me, I'm tempted. But only half of me is tempted. The rest of me
loves it and I know my husband would hate to be abroad at Christmas,
especially in a warm climate. We're probably too old and traditional and
besides, I've 'done' Christmas for everyone, in varying permutations, for
more than 20 years now so I'm in the groove of it!
We might be away this Christmas, staying in Jersey with my son but as
they're moving it may well be that the positions will be reversed and
they'll be with us!

According to one report in the UK we spend around £700 per family on
Christmas.

I'm sure we do - it's madness. But the thing I really, really do object
to is this awful early and ever earlier catalogue thing. Last year, I was
asked to choose our Christmas cards in July (IIRC) by a company that acts
for a lot of charities.

According to http://www.directline-holidays.co.uk/ Two people can fly to the
canaries for a week self catering over Christmas 2007/8 for £816 (plus food
obviously).

I know, I know......


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http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

CWatters wrote:
"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
Depressing, isn't it? ;-(

Some years back my wife and went abroad at christmas instead of in the
summer. We went to the Canaries, sat on the beach and explored the
island in an open top jeep. Didn't heard a single Christmas song for
the whole week. Fantastic. Came back when christmas was all over
feeling a million dollars - much better than after a summer holiday.
No presents to buy, no need to entertain visitors, no bottles of
booze with naff names. Highly recommended.


We tried the same xmas escape in Morocco (Fes)... went into the medieval
medina, donkeys the only "heavy" transport, tiny covered streets... We
walked for miles past the old tanneries and the ancient madrassas until we
came upon a small, dark hole in the wall. An elderly Berba chap, possibly
167 years old (well, he looked it!) was selling..... BLOW UP SANTAS!!!!

Bugger!

Les
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bodies and hold soup cans to get rid of them. I should care what they
think?"...Valerie Emmanuel

Les Hemmings a.a #2251 SA

"Les Hemmings" wrote in message
...
We tried the same xmas escape in Morocco (Fes)... went into the medieval
medina, donkeys the only "heavy" transport, tiny covered streets... We
walked for miles past the old tanneries and the ancient madrassas until we
came upon a small, dark hole in the wall. An elderly Berba chap, possibly
167 years old (well, he looked it!) was selling..... BLOW UP SANTAS!!!!

Bugger!

Les

LOL :-0

In article , Sacha
writes

Last year, I was
asked to choose our Christmas cards in July (IIRC) by a company that acts
for a lot of charities.

However as a printer could I point out Sacha that to get the cards as
cheap as possible and make money for the charity an early large order
would help keep costs down. Also it takes a few weeks to get plates and
stuff made then print, fold sort and box cards plus then sort them into
orders and to get them to customers before say November means that you
are looking at September being the last sort of date.

Janet

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Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

On 3/7/07 13:48, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote:

In article , Sacha
writes

Last year, I was
asked to choose our Christmas cards in July (IIRC) by a company that acts
for a lot of charities.

However as a printer could I point out Sacha that to get the cards as
cheap as possible and make money for the charity an early large order
would help keep costs down. Also it takes a few weeks to get plates and
stuff made then print, fold sort and box cards plus then sort them into
orders and to get them to customers before say November means that you
are looking at September being the last sort of date.

Janet

I do appreciate the technical difficulties and also that all these firms and
charities are competing with each other but July.........! I think I don't
like it because it seems to be trying to make the time scurry past even
faster than it does now! Mentally, I'm still somewhere in March, even if
the calendar does tell me a different story. And somehow, it's even worse
when the weather is as terrible as it is now - makes winter gloom and rain
loom even closer. ;-(

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
...
In article , Sacha
writes

Last year, I was
asked to choose our Christmas cards in July (IIRC) by a company that acts
for a lot of charities.

However as a printer could I point out Sacha that to get the cards as
cheap as possible and make money for the charity an early large order
would help keep costs down. Also it takes a few weeks to get plates and
stuff made then print, fold sort and box cards plus then sort them into
orders and to get them to customers before say November means that you are
looking at September being the last sort of date.

Janet


I have just had confirmation of Navy Days at Portsmouth as July 25th - 27th
2008.

OK over a year away, but as I promised I would run a reunion for the
H.M.Ship's Associations in conjunction with it, I 'hope' I can secure the
accommodation 'at this late stage' !!!

July Navy News is listing reunions well into 2008 and last month's had one
for July 2009. I was asked yesterday about organising reunions for 2009 and
2010, 2007 and 2008 for this particular Association have already been
organised and sorted!!

Christmas? Just around the corner.

Mike


--
The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association.
'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy
Reunion Bournemouth August/September 2007
www.rneba.org.uk

In article , Sacha
writes

I do appreciate the technical difficulties and also that all these firms and
charities are competing with each other but July.........! I think I don't
like it because it seems to be trying to make the time scurry past even
faster than it does now! Mentally, I'm still somewhere in March, even if
the calendar does tell me a different story. And somehow, it's even worse
when the weather is as terrible as it is now - makes winter gloom and rain
loom even closer. ;-(



Well there's only about 22 weeks to Christmas!
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk