{"id":3121,"date":"2010-11-18T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/blog\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2010-11-18T15:59:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T14:59:23","slug":"robyns-christmas-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/blog\/friends\/robyns-christmas-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Robyn&#8217;s Christmas Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Robyns Christmas Letter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4091\/5165981377_9c251dbb9a_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">Dear Santa&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">My Name Is<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: black;\"> Robyn Trainer<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, But you can call me<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>Shoe<\/em> if you want to.\u00a0 (Everyone else does)<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">I&#8217;ve been a good girl this year because<\/span> I&#8217;ve suffered abuse from Jim, Jo and John in the office all year and I&#8217;ve not retaliated one bit.  (Well apart from when I used my wheelie desk chair to trip them up and stuck post-its on their backs.)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve also faithfully made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/products\/cafedirect\/440-tea-direct-teabags\/\">cups of tea<\/a> for colleagues on a regular basis and even stretched as far as to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/products\/cafedirect\/cafedirect-rich-roast-fresh-ground\/\">coffee too<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">This is what I would like for Christmas:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1)<\/strong> I would like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/products\/green-books\/prince-of-wales-check-dog-door-stop\/\">Checked Doggy Doorstop<\/a>, because he&#8217;s very cute, and would look wonderful keeping watch of the doors in my house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2)<\/strong> And I would like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/products\/green-books\/dangly-frog\/\">Dangly Frog<\/a>, he just makes me want to smile.  Look at his happy little face!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3)<\/strong> I&#8217;d also like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/products\/post---it\/recycled-post-it-notes-76x127mm-\/\">Recycled Post it Notes<\/a>, because I&#8217;ve run out because I used all mine sticking abusive notes on Jim and Jo&#8217;s backs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">Oh and Just One More Thing&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">If I could have one wish this Christmas it would be<\/span> for it to snow and for us all to go sledging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">Whilst listening to my favourite song, which is <\/span>All I want for Christmas is you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">When You Come to Visit<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">The best way to get to my house is<\/span> Past the Cathedral, take a left, pass the castle, keep going up the hill and take a right.  My house is the one on the end of the terrace with the flowers in the garden and the rabbits in the hutch.  Alternatively, if you want to land on the roof, mine&#8217;s the ones with a few slates missing and smoke coming from the chimney.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">But Make Sure You&#8217;re Careful Of<\/span> The neighbours.  They&#8217;re simply frightful&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">When you visit, I promise I&#8217;ll leave you out a <\/span>mince pie and a glass of sherry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">And I&#8217;ll leave Rudolph<\/span> a carrot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">With Lots of Love<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">From Robyn x<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">P.S.<\/span> I like your hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Santa&#8230; My Name Is Robyn Trainer, But you can call me Shoe if you want to.\u00a0 (Everyone else does)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","tag-christmas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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