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Post by housesparrow on Dec 28, 2011 16:02:36 GMT
What do you do when you receive a Christmas card the week before Christmas from someone you had forgotten?
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Post by trubble on Dec 28, 2011 16:06:25 GMT
Shrug.
Maybe your return New Year's Greetings are just as welcome as silly old christmas ones?
Too late?
Chinese New Year perhaps.
A valentine's card might not be appropraite.
A St Patrick's Day card maybe... ?
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Post by Weyland on Dec 28, 2011 17:28:51 GMT
What do you do when you receive a Christmas card the week before Christmas from someone you had forgotten? What I do is enjoy another humbug.  I don't send cards. |
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Post by everso on Dec 29, 2011 22:49:07 GMT
We send heaps of cards - I like to know that people I worked with 30-odd years ago are still alive and kicking.  Mr. E and I always argue over what type of Christmas card to buy. He likes boring understated. I like gold and robins.  If I receive a card from someone I usually send one to, but have somehow forgotten, then I would email or phone them, but if it's a card out of the blue from an acquaintance then I would probably just add them to my long list for next year. |
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Post by jean on Dec 30, 2011 10:51:11 GMT
It would depend on whether I forgot by mistake, or on purpose.
I've reached the stage, though, when the card that doesn't appear provokes fears that the sender has in fact died. Sometimes you never find out for certain.
This year I got an e-card from the marchesa, which surprised me so much I assumed someone had hijacked her email address. (That'll mean something to aubrey, if not to the rest of you!)
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Post by Weyland on Dec 30, 2011 14:24:54 GMT
It This year I got an e-card from the marchesa, which surprised me so much I assumed someone had hijacked her email address. (That'll mean something to aubrey, if not to the rest of you!) How many of these bête noires do you have, Jean? I do hope none of them have Ραμνούς connexions. |
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Post by jean on Dec 30, 2011 15:32:15 GMT
I don't have any bêtes noires, Weyland. It's just that sometimes, unaccountably, I become one of somebody else's. Was this what you were thinking of?  |
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Post by aubrey on Dec 30, 2011 17:59:18 GMT
We got a Christmas card from Germany, with an almost undecipherable name: though the address was clear enough. I thought, if anything, it was a joke card from a German member of the Fall Forum who I have sometimes been out drinking with.
Anyway, it wasn't him, it was a serious card, and to someone who if they ever lived here can't have done so for 40 years. It wouldn't have mattered (and our lass told me that we had a card for the same person last year) but it had a 50 euro note in it. There was a very small return address, and I hope that was enough to get it back.
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