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I donated first time round. As soon as I get my PayPal account sorted, I'll send through something for Xmas. This is such a good idea, well done everyone who is involved

This is such a great initiative, will sort out a donation this week. Thanks again for your inspiration xx

families and may - lovely to have you with us, thank you both for your support really, it's very much appreciated and every single contribution is another little boost to keep us going and adds another book to the coffers thank you.

It's great to see this fantastic projext is still running, and so successfully!

Sterling work to one and all.

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Hello Norks. It's a great idea to keep popping in and bumping this thread.

Right, donation sorted.

And shameless bump!

Just looking in to see how everyone is...

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just wandering through

Bumpity bump

Thanks for the advice about how to include a message IvanaNap. I will leave it if it's going to create extra work. I'm sure you and Nickel have enough to do already.

Oh, and bump

Good bumpage work all!

Just back from a couple of days with family. StorySenders was never far from my thoughts though, I may have drummed up a donation from a relative and have been to-ing and fro-ing lots of emails with refuges, North&South!

To those just finding us - please ask any questions you may have and post any queries here which helps bump too the more the merrier.

(Having said that, it's tricky getting the balance between keeping this manageable and relatively low-key while also letting people know we're here if they would like to contribute!)

A warm, grateful and big thank you to all who have helped so far this month, will update more in the coming week

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<aaaand one for luck>

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Do you know we had snow on the South coast this morning? Exactly 20 seconds of it We are hoping for a bit more - there's a lovely sledge in the shed just waiting for an outing.

Oh,

and

BUMP

Oh Puffin, you beat me to it

and

again..

Bright sunny day up North! Frosty though. Not great when your street is hilly

Thank you both for bumps! And if anyone is au fait with the Facebook malarky, do feel free to 'recommend' this Christmas StorySenders thread at the top of the page

we had loads of snow this morning!
I really thought it would snow all day.

it didn't

Just a few flakes of snow here - bloody freezing though


Do you have a cut-off date for donations?
<<tries to bump appropriately...>>

wave to fenton and accidental BUMP

About another week for people to contribute Sand

I have just updated the blog with a picture of the first little bundle for the young children at one of the refuges up North (Just waiting to arrange drop-off next week - with one thing and another the lady at the Northern Refuge and I have kept missing each other this week!)

I have added my own contribution, and sent that of my relative too, to our Christmas funds and we are now in a position to donate very substantial bundles of books (+other bits) once we have definite confirmation from the remaining refuge contacts. Thank you once again for your continued help and positive comments, they are all much appreciated

photo Click here - link for photo of first Christmas bundle (just thought I'd repost with it in the first line, so it shows in the little excerpt on people's list of 'threads I'm on' )
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What a fantastic bundle of books - love the soft toys to go with it.

Really, really well done

Thanks sand

Ok, try to follow me...
Refuge 1 down south - have not confirmed
Refuge 2 down south - our main contact has moved to Refuge 3
Re-Sent to new contact at Refuge 2 - has not confirmed
Refuge 3 down south - have confirmed (yea!) a nice number of children (roughly ten) all under age 4 with a couple older ones. Nickel is choosing their bundle as I type (well, not exactly, but ykwim!) to be bundled for hand over in the next week or so.

Refuge 1 up north - have confirmed, small number of children all under age two, plus a couple of new arrivals - visiting them to drop-off in the next week or so (photo on blog, as above)
Refuge 2 up north - am in the process of arranging a meeting to discuss options with them, as they cover a large area.

Did you catch all that
We have stayed with refuges that Nickel or I can visit in person - so that they can see we are 'real' and vice versa - but that has been a little restrictive, hence the slight delay in updates etc. We are getting there, I just wanted to give you a little peek behind the scenes so to speak, so you know that we are ensuring your contributions go towards their intended purpose and recipients. This was made all the more tangible for Nickel and myself today when we heard that there were some new additions to the refuge up north - mothers and tiny tots - very sobering. We began picking their extra books/bits asap and were very glad to have the funds available to do so

Hope to be in touch again to let you know our final bundles soon

Lovely to hear that Ivana