FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to include notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT as the number involved would soon swamp the journal. We endeavour to report as many fundraising events as possible after they have taken place, and make every effort to include all reports received in time for publication.Cottage industry When Dick Clark, a member of Portrush branch, offered the ladies' guild the contents of his attic to exhibit, the ladies were quite thrilled. About 90 models of cottages, houses and castles with a strong Irish flavour, all made by Dick and carefully researched and historically accurate, were arranged in the local primary school where they formed a unique exhibition entitled 'From cottage to castle'.

In five days the exhibition realised £3,600 for lifeboat funds.Hounded for their money! I While on holiday on the Isle of Wight last summer, Albert the Irish Wolfhound collected nearly £50 for Yarmouth lifeboat.

Owner Mary Knight took him along to the station's open day and not many people were able to resist Albert's appealing eyes and popped a coin in the box.

Albert is a PAT dog (Pets As Therapy) and visits schools, hospitals and old people's homes where his friendly nature offers comfort and joy. He and Mary raise large amounts of money for various charities throughout the yearI To Campbeltown.. from Campbeltown HMS Campbeltown's salvage of the oil tanker World Hitachi Zosen in April 1992 has led to a cheque for £2,625 being presented to the Campbeltown branch of the RNLI.

While steaming off West Africa the Royal Navy frigate HMS Campbeltown received a Mayday call from the tanker, which was suffering from a major fire following a collision with a container vessel.

The frigate's helicopter was launched and winched fire-fighting teams onto the blazing decks. After 14 hours the flames were brought under control and the vessel was saved.

The frigate's commanding officer, Captain Anthony Dymock, was delighted to present the ship's share of the agent's commission to Captain Black, honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station.

The ship has very close links with her namesake in Scotland and the money will go towards the new lifeboat appeal.

Pictured from left to right are: Captain Anthony Dymock, Guy Raven (Cox and King's) and Captain Black, station honorary secretary at Campbeltown.Quick march to profit During 1993 the RNLI received its own official march in the form of The Lifeboatmen', the brainchild of Brian Williams, the chairman of the Rame Peninsula Branch and written by well-known composer Trevor Brown.

The march was officially handed over to the RNLI in June during the naming ceremony of the first Trent class lifeboat Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma.

Westcountry Television subsequently sponsored the recording of the march by the Band of HM Royal Marines Commandos on their 'Marches of the Sea' cassette and CD, and sales have already passed the £4,000 mark, with all profits from the recording going to the RNLI.

CDs costing £10 and cassettes at £7 are available from the RNLI South West Region, 6 King Square, Bristol BS2 8JD.

In brief ONCE again Hoylake lifeboat station's open day proved a great success. Ken Dodd QBE opened the proceedings and a skydiving team which parachuted down with the RNLI flag thrilled the 20,000 people who turned out for what is now one of the largest open days in the Institution's calendar. With many attractions along the promenade the total raised on the day in souvenir sales, collecting boxes and sponsorship was £15,000.

WHILE on holiday in Beaumaris, Robert Charlton, son of Llandudno crew member Keith, set up a stall on lifeboat day and raised £109.

RETIRING president of the Rotary Club of Coventry North, Maurice Cassledine, chose the RNLI to benefit from his fundraising efforts and presented Coventry ladies' guild with a cheque for £2,500.

THE Rame Gig Club entered its Cornish pilot gig Spirit of Rame in the London Great River Race in September. Racing for the RNLI in conjunction with Rame Peninsula branch, the gig took 53rd place from a total entry of 196 boats. Although she had aimed to win some of the prize money for the Institution and although unsuccessful in this respect the Twickenham branch, which acted as hosts, held a collection at the start of theIn brief ALLAN Smith, on holiday from Ayr, piped passengers ashore from the Clyde steamers calling at Tighnabruaich Pier and raised £223 for the local ladies' guild.

IN JUST one-and-a-half hours Beckenham branch raised £1071.84 at a garden party and coffee morning.

MARINE biology student Lisa Brook won the £5,000 business prize at the OXEX '93 trade show and donated the money to the RNLI and the RNIB.

THE St Agnes ladies' guild have received a cheque for £2,000 from Tehidy Park golf club - the result of a Pro Am golf match arranged by the captain Jerry Ladner, assisted by J. Prosser and Gerald Simmons.

JOHN Gallacher's sponsored walk raised a grand total of £657 for Hitchin branch and a stall manned by branch members at the North Herts and East Beds Sailing Club's open day raised £135.

THE 1993 house-to-house collection in the village of Queen Camel and West Camel, Yeovil branch, realised £224 and a coffee, cake and raffle morning raised £219.60.

LES Palmer has been fundraising for the RNLI for over 30 years, to thank lif eboatmen who pulled him from the water after his boat was torpedoed at Dunkirk. Les joined Orpington branch and is known in the area as the 'Stamp Man' as he collects used stamps for the Institution.Bandaid The Marple 'B' band recently gave a splendid concert at the Swan Hotel, New Mills and raised approximately £200 for the local branch.

The band played the Institution's march 'The Lif eboatmen' which has been transcribed for brass band by Keith Lever and is readily available from him at 36 Booth Street, Alvaston, Derby DE24 8PF.

Institute helps Institution In the early 1970s Mrs Violet Smith, a committee member of Wallingford branch, was asked to organise a house-tohouse collection. Then, as now, she turned to her fellow Women's Institute members for help and over the years they have been most supportive.

She remembers their delight when the collection realised £100, but this year, thanks largely to seven doughty members, it reached £247.

The ladies have also been Mrs Smith's mainstay in organising coffee mornings and bazaars, and since 1991 they have provided teas for the annual Sotwell Hill garden party, raising over £200 by selling cups of tea and home made cakes - a great effort for a little band of under twenty whose average age is 70-plus!Ballet good show Two members of Images of Dance, dressed in their costumes for the ballet Pineapple Poll, are pictured on Pwllheli lifeboat.

The ballet company gave a performance at the Town Hall in Pwllheli and the proceeds of approximately £600 were donated to the local ladies' guild which had organised the event.

Photo Peter WestleyAnother winning drive with Volvo Since 1987 the partnership between the RNLI and Volvo Car UK has raised over £lm for the Institution, and two new lifeboats funded in this way are already helping to save lives.

Volvo launched its latest campaign, 'Working Together', a year ago at the London Boat Show with the target of raising another £lm.

Six Volvo 440 1.6Li cars were offered as prizes in the RNLI's regional lotteries, and one in the January national draw.

These draws raised £512,899.75 during 1993, more than half-way towards that next million. The success of the draws is also due to the many voluntary workers and Volvo dealers around the country who continue to work tirelessly and break record after record.

The amounts raised in the Regions holding draws for the cars were: Scotland Region, £51,087.25 (winner - Mrs Nancy Brown, Orkney); North West Region, more than £35,000 (winner - Mr Peter Farrington, Nantwich); North East and Eastern Regions, £59,507.50 (winner Mrs Norman, Leigh on Sea); Southern/South East Regions, £72,250 (winner, Mr S.

Bowles, Worcester); Wales and West Mercia Region an estimated £40,000 so far (winner Miss R. Shepherd, Llandrindod Wells); South West Region £97,389.50 (winner Mr Baylis, West Midlands).

On hearing the results the managing director for Volvo Cars, Charles Hunter- Pease commented: 'We are delighted with the association we have with the RNLI and the benefits it has brought us in terms of image and community involvement.

We would also like to thank the many branch and guild workers who have put so much energy into this campaign.'In Brief THE Castletown and Derbyhaven motorboat and yacht club on the Isle of Man, has donated £1,676 to Castletown branch from the proceeds of the 1993 Castletown regatta.

A cheque was presented by the event's major sponsors, Royal Life Insurance International, and Beauman and Beauman. Some of Royal Life's employees ran a bottle stall at the regatta and raised a further £400 for the branch whose members also organised a door-to-door collection in the same week raising another £472.

TOGETHER with her team, Mrs Old of Sandown branch sold £3,500 worth of Volvo car draw tickets last year.

THE HARBOUR Fete held on August bank holiday realised a total of £10,550 for North Sunderland ladies' guild, and last year the sale of souvenirs in its shop exceeded £17,000. Other diverse activities included a concert given by the Seahouses fisherman's choir which produced a further £605 and a stall at the vintage tractor rally at Brunton airfield which resulted in £100.

DURING their summer holidays at Little and Broad Haven, Ann and Susan Bolton (aged 12 and 14) from Liverpool organised a sponsored shrimp catch and 'netted' £60 for the local lifeboat.

ONE of the fundraising activities of Aboyne branch is selling car raffle tickets at the annual Braemar gathering. This event is attended by HM The Queen and other members of the Royal family who are in residence at nearby Balmoral and over the years some thousands of pounds have been raised by the branch at this event.

THE INSTITUTION has a supportive group of 18 English-speaking ladies in France.

For the last ten years the ladies, who live in the Riberac area, meet monthly at each other's houses for lunch and pay half the cost to the acting hostess and the other half to the RNLI.

NICHOLAS White of the Ivybridge and District branch has raised £1,600 by being sponsored to visit every lifeboat station on the south coast from the Scilly Isles to Dover.

He completed his five-day venture with half a day to spare.

LIFEBOAT week in Portpatrick resulted in £14,111.69 being collected for the local branch.

KAREN Steenvoorden and Sue White, wives of two of the Humber lifeboat crew, organised a dance at their local club in Kilnsea and raised just over £2,000 at their first real attempt at fundraising. The owners of the club, Maureen and Anton Schipper, provided the evening's entertainment free of charge.

FOR MANY years Violet Dunn of Littlehampton has filled her spare time decorating boxes with shells, many of which she donates to her local Littlehampton and Angmering branches for fundraising raffles.

Violet also enjoys baking and her cakes also help to raise funds.The Peterborough branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has adopted the RNLI as its charity, and allows Peterborough branch to collect money at the annual beer festival.

Since starting the partnership five years ago CAMRA has contributed almost £8,000 to the RNLI, and in 1992 just over £2,000 was used to equip the two lifeboats at Harwich with wet weather gear for the crew.

A total of £3,248 was collected from 1993's festival-goers, topped up with a further £400 from CAMRA which organised the event, making a grand total of £3,648 which will go towards providing a number of all-weather lifeboats with navigational equipment.

Chairman of the branch, Tom Field, said 'We stood at the entrance and the exit with buckets so we caught them going in and going out. We're very persuasive and they're very generous!'.

Pictured are festival organiser Mike Lane with Tom Field, chairman of Peterborough branch Photo Peterborough Evening Telegraph It'll come out in the Wash...

Between the 6 and 11 September Brian Elliott, a committee member of Swaf fham and District branch, undertook a marathon row, and raised more than £1,000.

Brian rowed the entire navigable length of the Great Ouse from Kempston Mill, just upstream from Bedford, to King's Lynn at the mouth of the Wash, a total distance of 86 miles. He rowed a 7ft 6in wooden dinghy he had built himself and was supported by members of the branch committee, using their mobile show unit caravan for overnight stops.

Brian was greeted at King's Lynn by a large group of supporters and was welcomed ashore by the Mayor.A word from our sponsors...

DURING last year's regatta at Hull marina, Victoria and Penelope Muir, aged 4 and 5, undertook a sponsored flag pole climb and raised the splendid sum of £525 in support of the Flamborough lifeboat appeal. Their father also provided equipment to the value of £500 for Flamborough lifeboat.

FRIENDS and colleagues sponsored Anne Grainger and Sarah Grace from Ilkeston to walk up to Kinder Scout (the highest point of Derbyshire) and the two friends raised £264 from the ten mile walk.

FOURTEEN members of the National Westminster Bank in Norwich took part in a sponsored cycle ride - 73 miles between the lifeboat stations at Wells-Next-the-Sea and Lowestoft, raising £1,458.30 to be divided between the six stations involved.

IN SEPTEMBER six members of Markyate Cricket Club cycled 350 miles from their home village in Hertfordshire to Land's End and have so far raised £2,000. In a week the five cricketers called in at six lifeboat stations on the way and were warmly welcomed at St Ives where they a round-up of sponsored events play cricket every year.

FIREFIGHTERS from the Ventnor, Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service rowed across the channel from Ventnor to Cherbourg. The sponsored row, which took 23 hours 47mins, was in aid of The Amie Morey Riverside appeal and the RNLI and £500 has so far been donated to the lifeboat service with further donations to come. First Day covers commemorating the row were stamped on both sides of the channel and can be purchased from Keith Burden, Ventnor Fire Station, South Street, Ventnor PO38 ING at a cost of £4 each, with all profits to the charities concerned.

A RECENTLY retired Hertfordshire police officer who had undergone a double by-pass operation, walked the coast of Cornwall to thank those who gave him a new lease of life. Cornish- born Mick Pascoe, was joined on the way by many friends and colleagues and completed the 300-mile walk in 20 days. He collected £2,393.52, of which the RNLI received £1,000, the Harefield Hospital Fund £1,000 and the Herts Police Welfare Fund £393.52.A word from our sponsors...

DURING last year's regatta at Hull marina, Victoria and Penelope Muir, aged 4 and 5, undertook a sponsored flag pole climb and raised the splendid sum of £525 in support of the Flamborough lifeboat appeal. Their father also provided equipment to the value of £500 for Flamborough lifeboat.

FRIENDS and colleagues sponsored Anne Grainger and Sarah Grace from Ilkeston to walk up to Kinder Scout (the highest point of Derbyshire) and the two friends raised £264 from the ten mile walk.

FOURTEEN members of the National Westminster Bank in Norwich took part in a sponsored cycle ride - 73 miles between the lifeboat stations at Wells-Next-the-Sea and Lowestoft, raising £1,458.30 to be divided between the six stations involved.

IN SEPTEMBER six members of Markyate Cricket Club cycled 350 miles from their home village in Hertfordshire to Land's End and have so far raised £2,000. In a week the five cricketers called in at six lifeboat stations on the way and were warmly welcomed at St Ives where they a round-up of sponsored events play cricket every year.

FIREFIGHTERS from the Ventnor, Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service rowed across the channel from Ventnor to Cherbourg. The sponsored row, which took 23 hours 47mins, was in aid of The Amie Morey Riverside appeal and the RNLI and £500 has so far been donated to the lifeboat service with further donations to come. First Day covers commemorating the row were stamped on both sides of the channel and can be purchased from Keith Burden, Ventnor Fire Station, South Street, Ventnor PO38 ING at a cost of £4 each, with all profits to the charities concerned.

A RECENTLY retired Hertfordshire police officer who had undergone a double by-pass operation, walked the coast of Cornwall to thank those who gave him a new lease of life. Cornish- born Mick Pascoe, was joined on the way by many friends and colleagues and completed the 300-mile walk in 20 days. He collected £2,393.52, of which the RNLI received £1,000, the Harefield Hospital Fund £1,000 and the Herts Police Welfare Fund £393.52.A round sum Mr Ken Holme-Barnett, district governor of district 1060 of Rotary International presented a cheque for £18,000 to Mrs Kay Stone, area organiser for Wales and WestMercia. The money was raised in 12 months by the 67 Rotary clubs in the West Midlands as a result of the RNLI having been nominated by Mr Holme-Barnett as the charity for his year of office.

Walk this way Thirty members and supporters of Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton branch and guild took part in a sponsored stroll from Exmouth docks to the old lifeboat house, about a mile along the seafront.

After a fish and chip supper they returned with another 26 supporters to the docks for a social evening and raffle at the Beach Hotel. Over £630 was raised for lifeboat funds.

In Brief IN THE seven months after Paul and Jill Hewitt took over the Rose and Crown pub in Hitchin collecting boxes in the bars had to be emptied weekly. After the money had been counted it was revealed that an amazing total of £1,175 had been raised in that time for Hitchin branch.

A VERY successful and enjoyable evening organised by Wells-Next-the-Sea ladies' guild was held at the Alderman Peel High School last August when the entertainment was provided by the Sheringham Shantymen Singers. Mrs Freda Howell delighted everyone with her Norfolk dialect poetry and a cheese and wine interval refreshed everyone. A raffle was held and a painting of Wells lifeboat by artist Mike Tuddenham was auctioned by Coxswain Graham Walker for £100, resulting in a final total of £472 for lifeboat funds.

THE COMMODORE of Harleyford motor yacht club, P.T. Lole, committed the cardinal sin of neglecting to lower his ensign at sunset. The next thing he knew was that there would a 'special raffle', the prize to be a surprise. To his horror he found that the prize winner was presented with his ensign and he, as commodore, had to make an offer to buy it back! The proceeds of the raffle were donated to the RNLI and after Commodore Lole had bought back his ensign the winner donated his fee to the RNLI - on the understanding that he match it! The end result was a cheque for £50 forwarded to the Institution.

A CELEBRATION lunch to mark the 10th anniversary of the reformed Tunbridge Wells branch was held at Rust Hall, the home of Ralph and Jean Graveney. One hundred supporters, including the Mayor of Tunbridge Wells, Mrs Audrey Shirley and the branch president, the Marchioness of Abergavenny enjoyed a buffet lunch.Anniversary celebration The 40th anniversary of the re-formation of the Harrogate ladies' guild was celebrated by a dinner on 21 October 1993 at Rudding House.

Guests, who were welcomed by the chairman, Mrs Peter Blaydes OBE, included the Mayoress of Harrogate as president of the guild, the Institution's Director, Lt Cdr Brian Miles and Mrs Miles and the north east regional organiser Mrs Christine Goodall. The guest speaker was the distinguished painter Ben Maile.

Mr Maile spoke of his personal admiration for and dealings with the RNLI in those forty years and the company was then given a talk by Lt Cdr Miles on the work and human problems of the Institution.

Paintings, donated by Mr Maile, were then auctioned and the evening raised a total of nearly £4,500.

Transparently successful Mr John Wardle, committee member of Clowne & District completed a glass engraving of Selsey's Tyne class City of London which was then framed for exhibition at various events to raise funds.

After raising £128 locally the branch believes the engraving is now in Selsey boathouse.

The branch has also been presented with a cheque for £838.50 from the Hodthorpe Workingmen's Club following a weekend of fundraising, including a 24-hour snooker marathon, a fun quiz and bingo. Together with around £200 from a recent lunch and £70 from the souvenir stall at a vintage car rally, the branch has enjoyed a lucrative few months.

A great day at Nefyn...

Nefyn Sailing Club lifeboat day took place in August, and began with many club members taking their boats out to join the flag-bedecked Porthdinllaen lifeboat Hetty Rampton as she made her way into Nefyn Bay.

Shortly afterwards an RAF Valley helicopter appeared for a joint training exercise, and later the eagerly-awaited Lifeboat Bay race took place - with 61 participants racing along the beach to their boats for the first leg, to the lifeboat anchored in the bay. Sailing into Lifeboat Bay they had to leap out and collect a lolly before returning to the beach for a final run up to the club hut.

Together with the sale of souvenirs by Nefyn ladies' guild the club raised £1,250 on a very successful day.

...and at Calshot Calshot also enjoyed a very successful lifeboat day at picturesque Ashlett Creek, Fawley on a perfect day last June. A record £2,738.93 was raised for Calshot branch.

The Calshot lifeboat Safeway had two call outs before she could take part in the pre-arranged training exercise with a Coastguard helicopter! Eight steam yachts attended the event together with radio controlled models of all types of lifeboats in conjunction with the RNLI Southern Model Boat Society.

The day was brought to a close when Richard Merryweather, skipper of Commercial Union in the Round the World Challenge, together with BBC's Open Waters correspondent Denis Skillicorn and Brian Lawrence, chairman of Calshot branch drew the winning draw tickets - the first prize being a £400 voucher donated by British Airways.Say it with flowers The Alsager ladies' guild celebrated its 40th birthday with a beautiful floral display at Milton Park Gardens.

The guild, which raises between £4,000 and £5,000 a year, had asked Congleton borough council if it could plant the display to commemorate 40 years of fundraising and Mrs Weatherby, honorary secretary, said how satisfied they were with the work, which showed a great degree of artistry and skill.

Photo Congleton ChronicleMoney in spades As well as his duties as winchman on the Swanage lifeboat, Jonathan Deare also raises money for the lifeboat.

He and his father own a deckchair and beach business, and any buckets, spades and so on that are left behind they sell for the RNLI. Last year £160 was presented to the station to buy some new-style Guernseys for the crew. Customers also donate paperbacks for sale and Jonathan organised a beach boules competition last summer which realised a further £30.

Showtime for the President The RNLI's president, HRH The Duke Kent, made sure that he visited the Institution's souvenir stall when he flew for the first day of the Royal Bath and West Show at Shepton Mallett in June.

The stall was manned over the four days of the show by members of the Midsomer Norton and Radstock branch.

Its chairman, George Noden, introduced the Duke to branch secretary Tony Lowe.

Also present at the time were president Tony Price and committee member Ed Bufton.

Flowering support Saltford Floral Club chose the RNLI as its charity for 1993 and as a means of raising money decorated the house of the Saltford branch treasurer with 43 floral arrangements.

Sixty people went along in the evening to admire the decorations, enjoy refreshments prepared by the ladies of the branch committee and buy tickets for a raffle of donated prizes.

At the coffee morning held the next day the floral arrangements were sold and together with the souvenirs and Christmas cards which were sold at both events, a splendid £780 was raised.

Dressed for the job...

Suitably attired, for the lifeboat if not for their surroundings, youngsters four-year-old Lucie Polwin, her brother Ben (10) and sister Hannah (8) (right), helped their parents on flag day in Billingshurst, where a total of £275 was collected one Saturday morning.

The total for the week was £1,871.99, an increase on last year's total.Lifeboatmen outmatched A football match between Amble lifeboat crew and Amble fishermen netted £800 from sponsorship and a raffle, with prizes donated from local pubs Organised by Second Coxswain James Henderson, a good crowd turned out for the game. A few injuries were sustained but both teams had a great time, with the fishermen showing their prowess in the final score - fishermen 5 lifeboat crew 1.

A busy time Four events organised by St Albans and District branch contributed £1,560 to lifeboat funds.

The first event in June last year saw much activity at the home of branch committee member Jean McCann and her friend Pam Sarley as members prepared for a coffee morning. Stalls were set up, with a wide range of souvenirs, books, bric-a-brac and a large selection of plants and cuttings from Jean and Pam's beautiful garden.

In a very short time the garden was buzzing as friends and supporters arrived in force. The weather was kind with the result that the morning had extended into the early afternoon. At the end of the day £510 had been raised.

This event was followed by a charity evening shared with Guide Dogs for the Blind. Given by a local theatre company 'Company of Ten' the evening was a great success and produced £552. Jill Cox, daughter of the branch chairman, and her friend Jane undertook a sponsored cycle ride and raised £100, and another £400 was raised by the sixth form at Marlborough School in St Albans.

Brave effort Donald Ross-Mackenzie of Broadway, Ilminster, decided to do something to raise money for the RNLI - even though he is paralysed down one side of his body, lives in a nursing home, is confined to a wheelchair and is 73 years old.

With the support of Ilminster branch and wearing oilskins and sou'wester he set off in his wheelchair heading for Lyme Regis, Weymouth and Poole. Travelling with a collecting bucket via Chard and Axminster he had reached the outskirts of Lyme Regis when the wheelchair overturned and Donald suffered a fractured hip.

Despite this most unfortunate accident he collected over £70, and with his sponsorship for the trip he raised just under £600. Ilminster branch chairman, Jim Olds, has kept in touch with Donald and says 'This was a marvellous effort to raise funds by one man in a wheelchair'.

Jazz and the motorway Len Maybury, treasurer of Nuneaton Conservative club, was determined to be up and about and out of hospital after recovering from a heart attack so that he could attend the jazz event he had organised in aid of Nuneaton and District branch. The band, Jazz Edition, got everyone's toes tapping and £300 was raised from the swinging evening.

The branch also held a bucket collection at Corley service station on the M6 and collected £984.15 in just one day.

Collecting in two hour shifts from 8am until 6pm branch members enjoyed free tea and coffee courtesy of Mr Martin the service station manager.In Brief PAULINE, Gary and Bill Ditchfield, owners of the Penny Lane restaurant in Santa Margarita, Costa Brava, Spain are keen RNLI supporters. When Nancy Scott, committee member of Molesey branch was on her last visit she emptied the bar's collecting box and brought back nearly £100.

LAST summer Walter McPhee, coxswain of Wick lifeboat, was presented with a cheque for £2,500 by Helmsdale lifeboat queen, Margaret Booth. This was the highest ever amount raised by Helmsdale branch which only has a population of 800 and is very supportive of the RNLI.

EARLY in September last year the Ashbourne branch manned a stall at the newly opened Carsington Reservoir and sold over £800 worth of souvenirs and Christmas cards..