Seasonal Felicitations
Posted by Gaufrid on December 17th, 2012
It’s the festive season again (it doesn’t seem that long since the last one!) and time for me to offer my thanks to many people.
Firstly, to all those who gave a donation towards the hosting costs for this site. Your generosity has enabled me to pay for the hosting for the next two years and there is enough left in the kitty to cover a third year and/or any unforeseen expenditure. I would also like to thank Neil Wellard, the site’s founder and former administrator, for footing the bill, out of his own pocket, for the first six years of the site’s existence.
Secondly, my thanks to the members of the Fifteensquared team who have spent time and effort preparing the multitude of posts that have been published during the year. I am sure that your input to the site has been much appreciated by many people.
Next I would like to say thanks to all who have posted comments on the site. These make interesting reading and give a cross-section of views about each puzzle. I am pleased that, by and large, this has been done in a polite and friendly manner. I know that many setters appreciate the feedback that the comments give so please keep posting them.
Finally, having mentioned the setters, I would like to thank them, and their editors, for the many hours of enjoyment, and occasional frustration, that their puzzles have given us this year. Long may you continue to give the mental challenges, and stimulation, that your puzzles provide.
Seaonal felicitations to all bloggers, commenters, lurkers, setters and solvers (and everyone else) wherever you are.
Gaufrid
December 17th, 2012 at 9:56 am
Many thanks to you too, Geoff, for the fantastic work you do. Have a great Christmas and a happy (and healthy!) New Year.
December 17th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
I hereby second the motion. More power to you The Famous Gaufrid, and I hope your health difficulties in the last year are truly behind you.
We are all in your debt.
December 17th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
We would also like to add our thanks to you too, Gaufrid/Geoff.
May you have a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year!
December 17th, 2012 at 3:38 pm
I would like to fourth the motion: thank-you, Gaufrid, for all your work on this fantastic site. And I’d like to echo Gaufrid’s thanks to all the setters and commenters, as well as to my co-bloggers. A very merry Christmas to all!
December 17th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Hear! Hear!
December 17th, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Happy Christmas and New Year to everyone !
December 17th, 2012 at 8:16 pm
Yes, have a great time everyone, and many thanks to The Owl for sorting out the site.
December 18th, 2012 at 11:13 am
Thanks Gaufrid and everyone else who helps to keep this site the pleasure to use that it is.
December 18th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
A very happy season to everyone, thaks especially to 15/2 for making crosswording so much fun!!
Cheers
Rowly.
December 18th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Thank you to you, Gaufrid. Most importantly, good health in the coming year. Shall we be seeing a new owl in 2013?
December 19th, 2012 at 8:49 am
Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year to Gaufrid and every visitor.
December 19th, 2012 at 10:35 am
Happy Christmas everyone and thanks again to Gaufrid for all his hard work. I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking that £5 represents the bargain of the year.
December 19th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Best wishes for Christman and the New Year to all.
Many thanks to Gaufrid for his work throughout the year and especially for moving this site to a decent holding company. I can now, probably, drop my habit of holding a copy of my comments while I wait to see if the site will accept it or fail.
December 19th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Gaufrid, you do a wonderful job, as do all you lovely bloggers. Keep up the good work. I for one could not do without this site for its invaluable feedback, bouquets and brickbats!
A very merry Christmas to you all,
John (Paul)
December 24th, 2012 at 10:28 am
Thanks to all bloggers in 2012.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
The Operatic Don
December 24th, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Many thanks, Gaufrid. And a very Merry Christmas and Happy 2013 to everyone.
December 24th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Thank you to Gaufrid and all the bloggers for another year of efforts on our behalf. They are greatly appreciated. I am often so late to the party that I rarely comment under the blogs but I do read them.
Seasons Greetings and best wishes to all.
Jan
xxx
December 24th, 2012 at 11:19 pm
Merry Christmas everyone (it is Christmas Day here in NZ now, though I don’t think the UK has made it quite yet).
December 28th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
If, say, tomorrow Fifteensquared would cease to be (like a parrot), my life wouldn’t be like it was before.
We tweet, we have Facebook, but this is ‘my’ Community.
Many many thanks to you, Geoff, for keeping this site (ie us all) alive.
I really hope to meet you one day or another at one of these crossword gatherings.
In the meantime, a Very Happy New Year to everyone!
December 31st, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Happy New Year Gaufrid and to all the setters, bloggers and posters. This is such a great site to visit, giving countless pleasure to many cruciverbalists.