[Nicola_Red]

You're right, I'd probably put them in bubble wrap and hand them over a post office counter. Or something.

It's gone now anyway. A tenner for special delivery postage, ouch.

[ianpwilliams]

Well people can always PayPal a fiver over to Nicola if they want to show their appreciation...

[Nicola_Red]

You're right Ian, they could!

Nah, I was adamant that I didn't want to make people feel like they had to contribute, after all this was my idea and I was prepared to spend the cash needed to make it happen. I know everyone's skint these days! But I think five people have pitched in financially, and I made sure their names went into the acknowledgements at the end of the book.

[ianpwilliams]

Oh ok, good to know that a few people could manage to help out

[Nicola_Red]

Yeah, it is. I haven't calculated the final costs - all the paper that the tributes are actually printed on (except my cream lined A4), all the backings and borders, and a lot of the printer ink were my mum's anyway, so I wouldn't like to think how much I would owe her. I did buy her a box of chocolates from Hotel Chocolat though!

[Yudster]

Hotel Chocolat is the best. If I get something from there at Christmas this bloody diet will have been worth it.

Their champagne truffles are the best in the world.

[Nicola_Red]

I know. She's saving them for after her holiday to New York cos she doesn't want to put weight on before she goes

[Yudster]

I think I gained two pounds just from typing "hotel chocolat".

[The Deadly]

Let's all stop talking about chocolate please. Devils food.

[St@rk]

Excellent loving the pictures (sorry only spotted this thread had changed today!)


Thanks again Nic, you are a star (and obviously I mean bright shining and amazing, not dense and gassy)

[Chris]

I'm happy to put them up on the site if that's okay with Nicola.

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[Nicola_Red]

It's fine with me - the only person who I feel maybe we shouldn't put up (at least initially) is Sunny as she doesn't come here anymore and she's also deleted her Twitter, so it's difficult to check with her.

[Chris]

Maybe I'll do it the other way, the messages are very heartfelt but also very personal. Perhaps it's best for people to indicate if they are happy to have them displayed, and I'll take the default stance of not sharing them.

[The Deadly]

Im happy.

[Chris]

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[Nicola_Red]

I'm fine with mine being posted

[Aled]

Thank you very much

[Nicola_Red]

I just screamed aloud to myself in my flat What a doofus.

[The Deadly]

What a great photo! Wonderful!

[ianpwilliams]

Chris, were we not going to wait until Chris received the book before posting the tributes? Just in case he looks? Even though I'm sure he wouldn't.

And I'm fine with mine being on the thread

[Termy]

Ohhhhhhh! Yay! Awesome, that was quick! ^_^
Seeing it in Aled's hands now suddenly makes it a lot more... definite. Can't wait for Chris and the rest of Radio 1 to see it.

[Nicola_Red]

Yeah, Aled advised me to post it signed for, and special delivery which is guaranteed next day was only 50p more than recorded, so I went for that. The guy told me it wasn't guaranteed to get there before 1pm but it obviously did!

[neilt0]

I just read some of the tributes....

SNIFF!

I think I have something in my eye.

[Nicola_Red]

I was just like that when I read them for the first time. I didn't read them as they were coming in, so pasting them into documents to print out was the first time I'd seen them - it really strikes you how much the show has meant to so many people.

[Aled]

I'll be introducing this on the final show on Friday the 14th. There's going to be tears!!!