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Vouchers and stamps.


Dear editor,

I am a senior and my ideas are for seniors. When my family asks for my Christmas Christmas [Christ's Mass], in the Christian calendar, feast of the nativity of Jesus, celebrated in Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches on Dec. 25. In liturgical importance it ranks after Easter, Pentecost, and Epiphany (Jan. 6).  list, at the top of my list is a donation in my name to the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF PWRDF Primate's World Relief and Development Fund ). If not the PWRDF, then a donation to your favourite charity. Be sure to give them the address. I also like to get postage stamps This is a list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way.

The best-known stamps:
  • Treskilling Yellow (Sweden)
  • Penny Black (Britain)
  • Blue Penny (Mauritius)
  • Inverted Jenny (U.S.
 as I write many letters.

Vouchers can be bought for many things such as telephone calls, gas for the car, meals out. If you like to give handson gifts, try garden supplies for the gardener, golf balls for the golfer, a book or subscription for the reader. A great gift I received was a good magnifying glass magnifying glass: see microscope.

magnifying glass

traditional detective equipment; from its use by Sherlock Holmes. [Br. Lit.: Payton, 473]

See : Sleuthing
 for my failing eyes.

The idea is to think of the wants of the recipient.

Winnie Hammerlindl

Calgary
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Title Annotation:LETTERS
Author:Hammerlindl, Winnie
Publication:Anglican Journal
Article Type:Letter to the editor
Date:Nov 1, 2006
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