*** OcUK Secret Santa UnWrap Thread 2019 ***

[cainer]

Welcome all to the OcUK Secret Santa UnWrap Thread 2019,

A couple were late sending and one seems to have been held up by MyHermes so we have a few of people with no gift to open
hopefully they will get them soon

Remember you have to post a picture of your gift in this thread by New Years Day!!

*** Please don't use spoiler tags for the pictures. it makes the thread easier to moderate ***

Beyond that, Merry Christmas everybody

The Draw... (id advise you open your pressie before looking at the list)
List below in order of Secret Santa -- Receiver
next to the receiver = pic posted

Spoiler

Ahleckz -- Diddums
benjii -- MikeB
bledd -- dirtychinchilla
booyaka -- Clov!s
BriT -- bledd
cainer -- Maccy
Clov!s -- Ahleckz
Diddums -- benjii
dirtychinchilla -- mushtafa
Greebo -- LuckyBenski
HecFam -- Vidar
Hilly -- HecFam
Hyburnate -- valve90210
joey1211 -- neoglow
kinobestew123 -- BriT
krisboats -- Marky
Lakeland -- rotters
LewisRaz -- mrk
LiamJ -- TwsT
LuckyBenski -- kinobestew123
Maccapacca -- Hyburnate
Maccy -- Nitefly
Marky -- cainer
Megahurtz400 -- Street
MikeB -- LiamJ
mrk -- Lakeland
mushtafa -- Megahurtz400
neoboy -- joey1211
neoglow -- wedrum
Nitefly -- krisboats
PU7E -- Greebo
RoboCod -- Maccapacca
rotters -- booyaka
Street -- PU7E
TheKwango -- LewisRaz
touch -- TheKwango
TwsT -- Hilly
valve90210 -- neoboy
Vidar -- RoboCod
wedrum -- touch

 

[cainer]

Cheers for my gifts Marky, great wall hanger
il upload pics tomorrow in the daylight

 

[touch]

Thanks very much @wedrum
Hope you all have a great Christmas!



and thanks again to @cainer for organising

 

[RoboCod]

I look forward to sobering up, getting drunk again tomorrow and then picking up this thread when I do .

 

[LuckyBenski]

Wow, what an amazing haul! First this mahoosive box turned up on Friday (foot for scale):


Then I excitedly opened it right after midnight... to find an entire Christmas worth of Haribo

Dug through all the packing to find a whole heap of pressies and probably the classiest card we've had this year


First up... A book which I think will be very helpful. In 2019 I've been an especially bad stress-head and in 2020 I intend to do better. Now I can tick two goals off the list, as it will be the first physical book I finish in about 5 years too. Thank you, this is so thoughtful



Then a coffee selection... I'm a big coffee lover and this will provide lots of treats over the Christmas period and beyond! Think I will start tomorrow morning.


I don't even know where I posted about this... my favourite combination: Peanut butter and Marmite and it's the classy peanut butter I so rarely treat myself to as well!


Then not one, not two but EIGHT tasty porters... no doubt courtesy of a clue in @Feek 's Friday beer and gin thread... more goodies to enjoy during my break!


And lastly a little present hiding amongst the packing... I guess this is the one SS mentioned, or I have one more to find! I haven't thrown the box out yet...

A scratchcard! My girlfriend scratched this as she's never done one (at 30! ) but sadly didn't win this time. Maybe I should have scratched it as I am Lucky Benski after all


Opening these was super exciting and has made my Christmas. I'll really enjoy all of these gifts a lot. That was some EPIC stalking, huge thanks @Greebo and big thanks to @cainer for pulling it all together and wrangling 40 of us for another year

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

 

[Feek]

Wow, what an amazing haul! First this mahoosive box turned up on Friday (foot for scale):

Excellent! Just a note for posters, there's absolutely no need to use spoiler tags for you images, in fact we'd prefer that you don't use them.

 

[Greebo]

Wow, what an amazing haul! First this mahoosive box turned up on Friday (foot for scale):

Spoiler

Then I excitedly opened it right after midnight... to find an entire Christmas worth of Haribo

Spoiler

Dug through all the packing to find a whole heap of pressies and probably the classiest card we've had this year

Spoiler

First up... A book which I think will be very helpful. In 2019 I've been an especially bad stress-head and in 2020 I intend to do better. Now I can tick two goals off the list, as it will be the first physical book I finish in about 5 years too. Thank you, this is so thoughtful

Spoiler

Then a coffee selection... I'm a big coffee lover and this will provide lots of treats over the Christmas period and beyond! Think I will start tomorrow morning.

Spoiler

I don't even know where I posted about this... my favourite combination: Peanut butter and Marmite and it's the classy peanut butter I so rarely treat myself to as well!

Spoiler

Then not one, not two but EIGHT tasty porters... no doubt courtesy of a clue in @Feek 's Friday beer and gin thread... more goodies to enjoy during my break!

Spoiler

And lastly a little present hiding amongst the packing... I guess this is the one SS mentioned, or I have one more to find! I haven't thrown the box out yet...
A scratchcard! My girlfriend scratched this as she's never done one (at 30! ) but sadly didn't win this time. Maybe I should have scratched it as I am Lucky Benski after all

Spoiler

Opening these was super exciting and has made my Christmas. I'll really enjoy all of these gifts a lot. That was some EPIC stalking, huge thanks @Greebo and big thanks to @cainer for pulling it all together and wrangling 40 of us for another year

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

You are so very welcome. You were fun to stalk and research. I really hope 2020 is a much better year for you and I know what a bad time you have been having in 2019 so I wanted to brighten things up a bit. I know what it feels like as I have been in a much worse place 7 years ago myself. That book is really helpful and somebody bought it for me when I was letting life get to me.

Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy everything but I will just say peanut butter and marmite is just wrong and you need help bro

ps. You have found all the pressies so you can throw away the box

 

[MikeB]

Poodle looking suitably impressed at my haul, on to the unwrap


Love it many thanks, I have been impressing the other half with my wide ranging knowledge of how to get the Germans off the beach already

Many thanks benjii and top work yet again by Cainer!

 

[bledd]

Thanks SS!



All consumable, no tat

Great drink choice too

@cainer, thanks for organising

 

[LewisRaz]

Many thanks to my SS!

Did have a good chuckle at it

Cant wait to get on Simcity 2000 on my windows 95 pc

Also going to be breaking out the hot sauce for out traditional christmas day nibbles this evening!

Thanks again

 

[Megahurtz400]

Thanks to my SS!

Very useful as use a lot of the nivea stuff already as I have girly sensitive skin Probably due to too many vodka based cocktails

 

[mushtafa]

Thanks for the gifts secret santa! There was no name in the package, so I'll find the list later.

EDIT: Thank you @dirtychinchilla , much appreciated, and thank you @cainer for organising this again

 

[mushtafa]

snip

You're welcome

You were pretty hard to stalk to be honest, social media locked down, and the majority of info I found on forums was dated, so played it safe

 

[neoglow]

Thank you SS! @joey1211

I lol’d at the Alien card, tshirt fits perfect and holy hell those nuts are spicy! With those and sprouts later, the bog roll is going in the freezer!

Thank you to @cainer for organising, awesome job

Merry crimbo all, have a great day!

 

[Diddums]

Some lovely gifts in here so far, @neoglow your chocolate starfish will need some TLC later after those nuts

 

[Vidar]

Thank you very much @HecFam!

Love my gifts of man stuff, Star Wars and type 2 Diabetes!.

Have told my kids if they're naughty I'm using the fire steel to burn their presents haha!

Merry Christmas all! And +1 thanks Cainer for organizing this!

 

[cainer]

Cheers @Marky



as i live ~50 yards from the beach...


and a tackle box full of rigs to use on the beach..


Thanks again mate they will be put to good use

 

[benjii]

Thank you Diddums! Haribo Strawbs are my favourite Haribo. I really appreciate the night sky book, I've been meaning to get back into astronomy, but struggling to find the time. Flicking through it has given me the urge to try harder to make time. I appreciate it, cheers mate!

 

[Maccy]

Thanks @cainer for organising AND for the gifts! A rather good haul and well stalked!



Merry Christmas everyone

 

[Vidar]

Waiting for my victim to post pics in golden hot pants!