Happy New Year: may 2012 be a good one for all!
Posted by Fiona Nevile in Cottage tales | 40 comments
My name is Inca and I don't send e-cards
I love Christmas but New Year is the buffed up golden holiday for me. A fresh start and the days are getting longer. There was a marvellous sunset at 4.30 pm today rather than the dreary 4 pm blackout of mid December.
The years seem to be flashing by at an alarming rate but we have lots of exciting plans and projects for 2012. I feel that this is going to be a very interesting time.
Over the past week or so, Danny and I have been bent over the bonnet of our server extracting email addresses. It’s that time of year again – sending out New Year good wishes. I’ve learnt a lot about databases and importing/exporting them into various email packages as .csv files! Quite a bit of ducking and diving but I do like a challenge.
Over the past week I’ve been mailing out our New Years e-cards and hopefully, if you have commented on the blog over the past year, you have received one from us all here at Cottage Smallholder. We appreciate your input. Every comment adds to the overall value of the site.
This year I’ve chosen an e-card from an American website that I only discovered recently – Blue Mountain . This site is great if you want to send out a lot of cards as you can import an entire address book. The maximum cards that it can send out at one time is just 20 but actually with a reasonably speedy ISP you can whizz through 100 names in no time. I sent the 1303rd card this afternoon! When I think of these little puffs of goodwill spreading across the globe, it’s definitely worth the effort.
It might take a while for your card to spin through the ether into your inbox but I do hope that it will be worth the wait.
Meanwhile I’d like to say Happy New Year to all our readers – unfortunately we are not clever enough to track down those who don’t make comments and send them a card too. I loved the card that we sent – if you are curious lurker you can take a peek at it here. Readers are what every blogger craves – they make the whole process of writing and posting worthwhile. So thank you for visiting my blog, it’s much appreciated.
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Thanks, guys, for thinking of us all!
Thank you for my card.I wish you and Danny a very happy new year.
I’m glad you posted this, I just found the card in my inbox but was reluctant to click on it until I knew it was genuine. Will now go open it. Thanks.
Thank you for my card. I wish you health, wealth and happiness in 2012
Much appreciated many thanks ,
i was delighted and surprised to received my card a few days ago..thankyou so much..and best wishes to you for all your 2012 endeavours.. x jane
Got my card about 10 minutes ago! Thank you lovely people, it’s made my day! Best wishes to you too for the new year!
Happy New Year
Enjoyed the card ~ many thanks
Happy New Year.
Thanks for the card.
Very apt, what with all the dancing menagerie 🙂
May 2012 be a grand year for you all.
My card arrived and it’s much appreciated. Good luck with all those plans and projects you have in mind for 2012. Look forward to reading about them.