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Your Secret Santa Sorted!
With the all the festive fun that Christmas brings us this time of year, one thing that we always think of coming up to Xmas is the infamous Secret Santa! Whether it's as a group of friends or as part of a work thing and you've no doubt ended up with the office temp who you've never spoken too, it's that magical time of year where finding the right gift is so much more important than how much to spend. This only complicates things!
Never done it before? Check out this cool little site that will explain all and do all the sorting for you and secretly email the names around so everyoneâs in the loop secretsantaelf.co.uk - sadly it won't buy the gifts for you though. Sorry!
Now that's all sorted, time for some inspiration! Check out some of our beauties on a budget....
Looking for that perfect little something for under a tenner? We've got you covered with our huuuuge range of retro gifts that won't break the bank....
Guest Post – meet the lovely Claire from 80scartoons!
Hiya!
I'm Claire and run 80sCartoons.co.uk which began back in 1998....has it really been that long? I was at art college in Dundee trying to teach myself web design, and had created a little homepage (most likely with a hideous tiled background, blinking text and animated gifs galore!) which mentioned a few of my favourite childhood cartoons
Any visitors that found my site (probably through Alta Vista or Lycos! Life before Google eh!) and signed my guestbook always commented on the cartoons and suggested more of their favourites that I should add...and so it grew from there!
Now it getting over 1,000 nostalgia-hungry visitors every day, and currently has over 8,000 Facebook followers! The demand for all things retro increases every year, especially as sites like TruffleShuffle have so many wonderful 80s goodies on offerto help to keep those memories alive!
Iâve been very lucky while running 80sCartoons, as Iâve managed to speak directly to many 80s cartoons âcelebsâ. If someone told me when I was 8 years old, that one day Iâd be talking directly with the maker of Button Moon, the animator of the Raggy Dolls, the creator of Jimbo and the Jet-Set the list goes on... I would have fallen off my rollerboots!
Iâve interviewed Terry Brain, who co-created Trap Door, which was a special treat for me as I was a huge fan back in the day. He also animated Stoppit and Tidyup, and went on to work for Aardman animation â that man is a legend! Amonst other things, he told me that Berk, Boni, Drutt & the big sponge were his favourite character creations and that his favourite Trap Door episode was 'Bye Bye Berk'!