Greetings everyone.
I trust that you all had a good Christmas. I know I did.
Anyway, I'm here to announce the winners of the poem and card event.

For the poem event there were two who's poems I really liked. I couldn't decide between them.
So tying for first place is Butler153 and Thorn.
Bravo, bravo.

For the Christmas card event the winner by default as the only entrant is DonutFatal.
Bravo, bravo.

I've re-opened the thread so that you can all share what wonderful gifts you got. This will also be the report thread for people who don't get their presents before the 29th but let's not think about that at the moment.

Here's a little Christmas story I wrote.

Many years ago there was a small town.
Everyone in this town knew everyone else and so there was a great sense of community. Every year the town was covered in
red and green. The colors of Christmas. it got everyone in the festive mood. Even the
really crotchety lady who lived on the edge of town
yielded her cane and donned a smile at Christmas.

Cutting to the chase:
Her son was away in the war this Christmas and she was
really worried for him.
In that time war was fought with men not machines and there was much more danger
so she was very scared and worried.
The villagers noticed this and asked her what was wrong. She
moaned and cried ahs she told them of her son. A little girl stepped forward and gave the old lady a flower
and said "Read the first letter down of every line of the story"
So there's a little bit of Christmas cheer. Be happy and caring this Christmas. Who knows what little thing you might do to change someone else's world.


So has anyone gotten any particularly good presents yet?