The registration for Flat!Richie is still open (until tomorrow, Friday), but I am back with a couple of updates/questions.
We are now at 23 participants (including me). That is fantastic, especially because this is turning into the international project I had envisaged: 3 continents and now 10 countries. Fan-tastic! But this raises a couple of questions that have already been discussed in the comments.
- Some participants have expressed concern that they are not able to receive parcels during the Christmas/holiday season and would rather like to start the project in January. Yesterday’s poll has shown the same result: The majority would like to start the project in the new year. I am happy to accommodate that, but here is my suggestion: With 22 destinations, the parcel chain is going to take a loooong time. Even if calculating postal times tightly, say at (unrealistic) 1 week per journey from participant to participant plus 3 days each for turnaround, we are still talking 33 weeks duration in total! That’s more than half a year 😳! So I would love to get the parcel on the road asap and am looking for four or five participants who are happy to start the chain early. Those four or five participants will be put in random sequence and start off the chain before Christmas. That should easily tide us into the new year, so the remaining participants (who prefer to start in the new year) will join the parcel chain after them. (The post-Christmas crowd will also be put into random sequence.)
- It has also been suggested that postal times would be quicker if the chain was grouped according to territory/country/continent, for example starting the chain among all the participants in Europe, then moving on to Australia, then to North America. Sounds logical and might keep costs low(er). On the other hand, I find the idea of Flat Richie criss-crossing the globe more exciting, despite longer postal times. I’d appreciate your feedback in the poll below.
So, before I get stuck into some serious parcel preparation (I started working on the travel log today, the fan items to come on the weekend), I would like to lock down the sequence tomorrow night. I need three things from you:
- Five volunteers to potentially receive and turnaround Flat Richie before Christmas ☛ comment below
- Feedback on Flat Richie’s route ☛ vote in poll above
- Your address (in case you haven’t sent it to me already) ☛ by e-mail
We’re getting there!
I’ll volunteer as one of the fiver 😘👏👍
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Noted!
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I’m there for the early bird special!
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Great! Noted!
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I volunteer to be one of the ones before Christmas 🙂
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Fab, noted!
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I can do pre-Christmas! 😀
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Super. Noted!
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Since I see 4 responses I volunteer to be the 5th. 😊
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Great. Thank you for that, Donna. We’ve filled all the slots for the early parcel chain now.
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See how easy that was! Gonna be so cool! Super excited! 👏👍😘
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Yay, indeed. All early slots filled. The fun can begin. A few addresses still missing, but I’ll send e-mail reminders later today. Off to a doc appointment this morning first.
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I’d love to do pre-Christmas or December, bring it! Fun!
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Fab, I have noted that! Thanks!
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Phew! Canada Post is engaging in rolling walk-outs right now, so that’s a weight off.
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Those things are out of our control, anyway, so not to worry about that!
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I volunteer for pre-Christmas, and I vote for clumping locations together to speed up the whole thing. (I didn’t see a “poll above.”) I will send address privately.
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Great, thanks for that feedback! All noted. (And e-mail received)
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Can I join?
I’m still kinda clueless but I’d like to participate I think….
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Of course you can join, Zee. Would love to have you. Just send me your address via e-mail!
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You’ve got mail.
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Received! Will reply later!
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Reblogged this on Me + Richard Armitage.
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Oh, many thanks for the reblog, Serv 🙂
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Die Umfrage seh ich leider wieder nicht. Aber du weißt ja schon, dass ich für eine möglichst chaotische Route kreuz und quer über den Globus bin. Adresse kommt gleich.
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CHAOS!!! Mwahaha.
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Sometimes CHAOS can be good-unpredictable, surprising? Unexpected delights!?
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Super. Angekommen. Melde mich später noch mal zurück.
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In dieser Aufmachung gefällt mir FlatRichie besser (Stoppeln 😍).
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Ich habe eben der Konversation hier zugehört und dementsprechende Anpassungen vorgenommen 😉
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Ach, ich mag beide. Frau braucht ja etwas Abwechslung im Leben.
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#TeamStoppelfeld?
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Aber sowas von!
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Sorry, freudscher Verschreiber beim Namen 😉.
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Oh, musst du den Namen beim Kommentieren immer manuell eingeben?
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Ohne WP-Profil glaub ich schon. Deshalb hab ich mich angemeldet. Immer Namen und Mailadresse neu eingeben—da bin ich zu faul.
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Ja, das wäre nämlich jetzt auch meine Empfehlung an Nordlicht gewesen…
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Zuhause nicht, da werden wahrscheinlich Cookies oder sowas gesetzt. Auf Arbeit aber nicht (wg. Sicherheit, du weißt schon). Ich bin nur froh, dass ich in Gedanken nicht irgendwas ähm unpassendes geschrieben habe 😂.
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*kicher*… jaja, was das Unterbewusstsein da so manchmal zusammenreimt…
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Cookies! I heard cookies yummy my tummy!!!💗💗💗😘👏👍
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Hahahaha! I noticed the stubble too!
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I think you have my address but will send email anyway. I am happy before or after Christmas lol
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Fab – received 🙂
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Oh I love the blue shoes on Flat Richie so sweet!!!😘👏👍💗
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That’s the outfit from Leeds 2015 🥰
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Ah I thought it was the shoes from that airport sighting awhile back. You went to the Leeds thingy right?
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I did. I couldn’t resist the photo op. And I was not disappointed 🙂
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Ah lucky duck!!!
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You must have seen the photos I took? https://guylty.net/2015/11/10/casually-strolling-into-madness-uatsc-premiere-part-2/ *shamelessly self-promotes*
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I always love your commentary and little ditties about moth to a flame and light traveler and every woman for themselves!! And low and behold the white tee!! Definite FOMO for me!! 😉😘💗so happy for you, Helen and Hariclea and Linda!!
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It was a great experience, I must say. He was very patient and gracious, funny and relaxed even. The evening event was very intimate – a small venue, the number of people there was limited. The day-time event was bigger – and yielded better photo results.
And yes, the commentary is always an opportunity to make a little fun of him, and of myself. Just to keep the distance 😉
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PS: Part 1 has a couple of choice photos, too! 😉
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Okey dokey gonna check it out! Do you have an ETA when Flat Richie will make his first trip?
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I want to get my act together by the end of next week, i.e. Flat Richie might arrive at his first stop in the first week of December.
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That’s perfect just to prepare 👍😘👏👏😛
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Your act is always together!!! It’s a big project so call out if you need anything!! I’m not creative artistically that is 😉🤣🤣🤣
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Aw, thanks Michelle! xx
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What a great idea this is. Flat Richie is just perfect. Love the cowlick and the baby blues. Sadly we suffer from an insecure mailbox so I can’t invite him here but I’ll be watching the fun from afar.
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Yep, Flat Richie had to be (hair)dressed properly.
Sorry to hear the mail isn’t reliable where you are :-). I’m sure it’ll be fun to watch the parcel progress, too.
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well i’ve made one present already! ;D
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Ha, you are raising the bar, Rachel. I’ve got one down, too, and several on my list…
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You’re very inspirational. Both of you!!!
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i’m avoiding doing my tax return! lol
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Hahhahaha Rachel oh no!!
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Damn, I haven’t got that excuse. It did mine in October… and it was even the 2018 one…
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