No worries, @Shoeless - you did fine. My first year I also sent a shot glass and t-shirt. I upped my game the next year and invite you to do likewise next year. No need for a supplement!
So part deux of my package arrived from @deltogre , a lovely toque (beanie to some of you) with an outline of Ohio embroidered and in Ohio State colours! I will definitely be putting this to good use over the winter! Thanks again!
You are welcome, swampspruce. I know it gets frigid up there in the Great White North, and I thought it might be a nice conversation piece, while also functional.
Hitting the home stretch here…
Silenus → Penultima_thule
Baker → Teuton
Czarcasm → Baker
Teuton →
Labdad → Ambro
Penultima_thule → Czarcasm
Feppytweed → Shoeless
Shoeless → Labdad
Ambro → dogbutler
Lancia → feppytweed
Deltogre → swampspruce
Dogbutler → Purplehorseshoe
Purplehorseshoe → Lancia
Swampspruce → Silenus
So it looks like Teuton’s recipient is the only one still outstanding. Awesome!
I have enjoyed this so much. Thanks to Lancia for all the work.
Second what @Baker said! Many thanks for organizing and even more thanks to all who participated. This is one of my favorite times of the year - hope to see you all back in 2024!
Gah!!! I got my package, today, and it is MOST excellent!
From Wales, it appears, although the markings were a bit smudged from rain, I think… I received two beautiful shotglasses, one representing Wales, and one from Devon. Two keychains (which, I assure you, my wife will abscond with…) and a beautiful decorative towelette with traditional Welsh recipes which, I promise, I will try, beginning with the rarebit.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU SO MUCH to Teuton for the lovely and soon-to-be-cherished gifts.
- We (My wife and I) will be christening these shotglasses within a half hour. The closest thing we have to Welsh liquor, sadly, is gin, so it will have to do. There may be some Pimm’s in the cupboard…maybe.
- You need to know that my wife travels to your part of the world as often as is possible, and not because we are rich. (We are not.) More because she studies Medieval Literature. Tom Shippey was her Ph.D advisor. If you know, you know.
She LOVES Wales, and when we first got together, she brought my kids a Welsh flag, because it’s, you know, badass, and stuff. Still hanging in the kid’s room. No lies. He’ll likely try to abscond with that shotglass. Tough shit, kid.
- She has done extensive studies of all the “obvious” stuff, like Arthur, but when we set about finishing our basement pub, she was insistent that we get a poster of the Mabinogion map, and if that doesn’t set her bona fides, I don’t know what will.
I honestly cannot thank you enough. Here are to many, many more of these. And thank you, Lancia. I have been lurking on these threads for 20+ years, at this point. (Only a scant few as a named contributor…) I was always worried that I would be intruding if I entered something like this. You all have made it abundantly clear that this is all-inclusive. I love you all for that.
So, raise a glass!
To those who love us, may they love us!
For those who do not, may God turn their hearts!
If he cannot turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles…
…So we’ll know them by their limp!
Slainte!
Outstanding!
Another SGE comes to a close. This time next year (roughly) I’ll kick off the 19th exchange. It is a lot of work tracking everything but it’s certainly worth it. I’m glad everyone had fun and nobody got shafted.
So raise your glass(es) and I’ll see you all here next year!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it all!
I live in Devon but often holiday in Wales (family there), which is why it’s a bit split. The Wales towelette is what we would call a Tea Towel, for drying dishes after washing up, and are a staple of seaside novelties.
But really, I just love having an excuse to buy all this stuff to send to people! Did I put in one of the London 2012 plush keyrings? Bought a job lot for my first exchange, am running low now…
You did include the little one-eyed feller. He’ll be hanging in my wife’s Forester, soon.
As predicted, she went insane for the contents of that box. She’s definitely a fan. Thank you, again!