A sample from "The Government's 2005 Departmental Christmas Card Directive!"...

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This year's seasonal missive from the Department of Social Scrutiny
will, for the first time, be enabled by our colleagues at the
Ministry of Festive Observance.

This means that, unlike previous years where individual Departments
were responsible for sending out cards unilaterally, MoFO is at long
last able to enforce the Government's policy on Multilateral Minor
Package Reciprocation or MMPR.

Under MMPR, cards will only be sent in response to a successful
application for festive communication being received by MoFO before
the end of the tax year in which Christmas occurred and claims for
back-dated Seasonal Felicitations must now be made within seven
years of the final hour of the last day of the fiscal year in which
a qualifying Christmas occurred.

More at: http://www.socialscrutiny.org/index.php

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SNOWDONIA RETREATS & COURSES

Next series of Wales workshops (Holy Grail, Dowsing, Stress management, Healing,
Psychic and Intuitive Skills etc) will be 10th-17th March 2006:
http://www.thejoysoflife.co.uk/courses/programme.htm

We are looking for:

* course/event presenters
* topics/courses suggestions
* attendees

A (by no means exhaustive) list of potential topics can be found
here:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cheal/message/406

The Joys of Life Country Park is a retreat centre in N. Wales. It's
incredibly beautiful - mountains, woods, rivers and waterfalls - a
peaceful Snowdonia haven, away from it all!

We are also building up the retreat centre up as a corporate
training/meeting centre, and as a place where employees can be sent if they are
"burning out", or "becoming difficult" in the workplace because of stress or
health problems.

Often when folks are spiralling down (or spiralling up!) too much,
energy-wise, problems are escalating both at home and in the
workplace, and a complete change of environment for a while, close
to nature, can make a huge difference!

People can go (or be sent by an employer) to this N. Wales retreat
centre to "chill out" and rest/restore, with or without professional
help (the JOL Centre is run by my sister, who is a nurse and my
brother-in-law, who is a Doctor, plus I and others can be available
with traditional or complementary stress management/therapeutic
help).

More info at: http://www.thejoysoflife.co.uk

Love and Blessings to you and yours in the Festive season of
Yule/Christmas/Hannuka/January sales etc!
Mike