Deranged wife put herself into debt and bought me a Rolex, we were divorced by the time I was 41. Watch is in a drawer still in it's original box 22 years later. Serves as a reminder not to marry lunatics but doesn't seem to be working.
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I got a Hegel H120 amp for my 50th.
My wife didn't exactly get it for me... but she did green light the deal.
Serves as a reminder not to marry lunatics but doesn’t seem to be working.
You probably need to wind it up…and the watch
Good work on the experiences!
Our label maker is extremely satisfying. All the boxes of "useful" tools are much more useful if I don't have to look through all of them for one specific thing😂
Not exactly on my birthday but in my and my friends 40th birthday year we went road cycling, in the French Alps for a week. It was fab!
Not exactly on my birthday but pretty close to the date.
41st birthday I bought myself a Cannondale Scalpel SE.
42nd was a cycling trip to lake Como.
43rd was a weekend completing the CL200 as part of the group start.
44th, this year. A Hello Dave and a Garmin Venu. I'm taking off my actual birthday from work and intend to ride some steep Tweed Valley trails.
You should always be nice to yourself on your birthday ☺️
Friends and family clubbed together and got me a massive roll cab, along with some 40 year old single malt, which I drank very slowly over about three years.
Similar to @jamesmio - mine was March 2020 just as we wen't into the first lockdown. Sadly I got nothing. I've promised to buy myself something when it's all over - hopefully in March 2022.
I'm really fancying a Singature Enigma Excel road bike in Ti64...
My phone rang at 1 minute past midnight on the day of my 40th. I wondered which of my mates was having a laugh being the first to wish me happy birthday. Turned out it was a cave rescue shout! So I spent the next 10 hours setting up underground communication in a freezing cold cave on a Welsh hillside in the middle of February. Missing group were found tired and down on lights but OK and were helped out of cave. Got home at 10 am and spent most of the rest of my 40th asleep in bed!
As far as pressies go, I got a nice bottle of Whisky and a new butchers knife 🙂
Good thread. Mine's next year and I don't intend on doing anything for it, but I will be taking my eldest to the Bremen Classic before it, and a group of pals to Techno Classica after it.
