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So what's the best Christmas prezzie that you've got for your other half?
For her 40th, which is not Christmas but Cartier always works! 😀
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A pearl necklace?
I did give my wife a pearl necklace last year. From John Lewis though (the shop, not the person)
Me, that's all she needs.
A first edition of a book that means the world to her (Angela Carter - The bloody Chamber and other stories)
Mrs Danny loves giraffes so I paid for her to be giraffe keeper for the day at Chester Zoo.
That be a pendant not a necklace !
Tandem.
Long weekend in Milan/Monza Italian GP. Last year of the "proper" engines. She also met Jackie Stewart in the pits. I just heckled Damon Hill. 😀
That be a pendant not a necklace !
Didn't want to splash out?
Expensive binoculars.
Day of hunting with a hawk.
New mountain bike.
APF
Ducati 749
A pearl necklace
Talking of which, any Lancs residents been hearing that advert on the radio for Prestons of Bolton lately? It's priceless 😀
Kindle
Oooooh! I'd like that; I've lost my copy 🙁A first edition of a book that means the world to her (Angela Carter - The bloody Chamber and other stories)
Talking of which, any Lancs residents been hearing that advert on the radio for Prestons of Bolton lately? It's priceless
Heard it tonight. Hilarious 😆
A 2015 Norco Sight Carbon, with upgraded Pike RC3, Cane Creek Inline, Stans Arch/Hope wheels, XT 11 speed drivetrain and carbon Renthal bars.
Unfortunately, due to a slight sizing oversight on my part, it's just a smidge too large for my lovely lady so I'm doing the honourable thing and am riding it myself. It's what she'd want me to do.
Me, but then she gets to open Me every year 😆
Cube Stereo E-bike
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I've been refurbishing a vintage wooden kayak for the past couple of months. Sneaking out a few nights a week to my parents garage to secretly add yet a-bloody-nother coat of varnish.
Very nearly there and it's looking pretty sweet! Hope she appreciates it!
A Kindle.
Not the flashest thing, but she uses it a lot and has since bought them for family & friends.
Including me.
Great things.
Snowboard.
Cross country skiing lessons . Benefits us both 😀
A bag and belt from a top brand
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the hoover works a treat now 😀
heated ski gloves - although pretty much ever since we've had over-warm weather when we've skied
bought last week on the way to the Lakes.....because she forgot her old riding shoes.
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A kite. Oh, and one of those poppies from the Tower of London.
Beast!
A new iron
Some food mixer thing which cost more than my single speed
A DVD player. Don't laugh, at the back; this was the year DVD's came out (1995) and it cost a small fortune at the time. My wife's always been a huge film fan and the chance to see films in such quality was amazing.
I might buy her one again this year, and remind her that once it was the most amazing thing she'd ever seen.
Not Christmas, but for our anniversary which is December 23rd.
Apparently it's a Steel anniversary so I'm hoping (fat chance) for a new bike!
Anyway, Zoe is a history teacher (with social history as her thing) and loves Edinburgh so I've got her a Victorian steel key from one of the old town tenement buildings - I'll present it as a keyring for her school keys.
Full of that smug feeling when you know you've got something 'odd' as a gift but know it's going to be just right for the person you've bought it for.
Garmin 520 and some Northwave boots. She doesn't deserve me
A new ironing board cover
my vasectomy
Mrs PB was dropping hints about getting a chainsaw for Christmas, she wanted a lightweight one to prune our almond and olive trees. We were in the local agri shop the other day and she appeared with one that she thought would be ideal. I pointed out that it was a non working toy!! Yes you can buy quite realistic toy chainsaws in Spain.
After going on a ladies only mountain bike ride last week, she came back lusting after some Sidi shoes like one of the others had so that's trumped the chansaw until her birthday in Feb.
XS Cotic Soul frame in orange for Christmas a few years back 🙂
Didn't want to splash out?
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A Kindle, means we can stay under our luggage weight limits on holiday and we don't need an extension for all the trash lit that she for some reasons keeps but never reads again
For her birthday this year, I arranged for about 10 of my wife's friends to unexpectedly "drop-in" after the kids were in bed.
In 16 years of being together, I've never managed to do / get her something that she enjoyed so much. 🙂
Is anyone else curious to why drop-in is quoted? 😳
A silver necklace, custom engraved with something hand-written by me in Ukrainian (she is Ukrainian, I am not, hence it's extra special that I learnt how to write 'I love you')
Also a pair of earrings, they are blue/purple hearts, depending on the light, we have a joke that she loves purple when she says she doesn't, as she buys a lot of stuff in purple...
Although apparently that didn't count as her 40th present, she bought it herself, so I had to come up with something else.
For Christmas last year I bought my wife two tickets to see Bryan Ferry in concert
My Christmas present from her was that she found someone else to use the second ticket...
Mrs CFH wins as she gets the dazzling wit of her husband every year
Mrs BenH sounds like a right goer 😉
A few years back my girlfriend (then wife, now ex-wife) was skint. She was from America and hadn't been able to go back to see her family for about 18 months.
I arranged it with her work, parents and siblings and bought flights for her, leaving for a fortnight the day after her birthday.
I got her something really nice for our anniversary once. She had been a rower during a year at Cambridge Uni. Her boat team had won a race where they beat 4 other boats in a row. This allows you to have some kind of ceremonial paddle made up by the college. She'd always wanted it but again, too expensive for her to have bothered with.
I called up the college she was at and tried to get one made. They were useless and had lost all the records. Plus it would take "about 2 years". Em, nut.
I'd met one of her pals from college at their wedding who'd had one made up. Got her to take a pic of it for me, went to the local uni and bought a paddle off them, stuck it out the back of my MX5 and drove it across town to a fancy signwriter and got him to paint it all up in proper gold leaf and everything.
The studio he worked in was having an open day on our anniversary and I said we should go down as we knew another artist who worked in there. At the time we were redoing the kitchen in our wee flat and she was freaking out/well pissed off.
So we went down and as we went around the different studios, I said "why don't we look in this signwriters" after having arranged for it to be finished and on display.
Again, well chuffed.
^Thats great^ Thought beats cash every time.
Last year I got Mrs. S two ticket for the Coronation St. Tour. Took her and our granddaughter to the studio and then on to Trafford Park. It earned me mega brownie points and I got to look round the science museum :wink:.
Adele tickets for wembly,
I've been refurbishing a vintage wooden kayak for the past couple of months. Sneaking out a few nights a week to my parents garage to secretly add yet a-bloody-nother coat of varnish.Very nearly there and it's looking pretty sweet! Hope she appreciates it!
That's great stuff! Assuming she's into vintage wooden kayaks and it's not a Homer Simpson bowling ball type effort of course...
Also yourguitarhero's is really good. As above,
Thought beats cash every time.
Custom sized, quite small Shand Stoater frame for her Christmas this year, now built up as a flat bar, disc braked tourer. She absolutely loves it. Planning a couple of weeks in either the Alps or northern Spain next June...
Wallpaper steamer for mother's day. Was suitable given the house renovation ongoing at the time. Must nudge her to get it back as it's been lent out and the decorating needs a freshen up.
Wife and two preceding GFs had birthdays on Christmas Eve (yes, I chat up pissed women at parties...).
25 years of making every present special and not lumping then into one joint present. Probably the one that went down best was a necklace and earrings to match the wedding rings she'd designed.
Gold and silver. No pearls involved.
A naked day on a secluded Australian beach. Dolphins jumping about, hammock up in the shade. Then slept there and a swim on Boxing Day, dawn coming out the Pacific. Socks this year.
Socks this year.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers stylee?
A smack, she had a slap last year.
A promise to take her to some sort of dancing class bollocks after new year (ceroc/salsa/...) 😕
Eternity ring on birth of first offspring. It was a very unusual design, on show in the window of an old Oxford jewellers and hopelessly out of any sane price range for a struggling post doc. Of course I bought it on the Monday, stored it in the garage, saved my lunch money and scrimped. Presented it after the birth.
Second favourite was the Tiffany diamond necklace I bought for her fortieth. I still remember telling the shop that it couldn't be too ostentatious as she'd never wear it. She seldom takes it off!
Cor, my missis would be quite dismissive if I gifted her a Cartier / Tiffany 'object'. I did design / have a pendant made for our first anniversary, white gold & a black opal (which matches/compliments her engagement ring).
On the lead-up to our wedding I designed some diamond earrings and had them made (in secret, obviously) - white gold, short single drop with the diamond at the end. I then got the maid of honour to give them to her when getting ready on the wedding morning, to wear for the ceremony. That got me in trouble as she wasn't expecting anything, cried, and very nearly ruined her make-up!
Then, for our tenth anniversary I saved up and had a necklace made to match the earrings. Had to sneak the earrings out from her jewellery drawer a couple of times to show the jeweller, saving up and paying was tricky as we do most stuff out of the joint account.
For our anniversary we got a babysitter for the weekend, went up to Auckland - fancy hotel, nice dinner out, Cirque du Soleil tickets. As she was getting ready I brought out the necklace. She nearly cried this time too, except this time in embarrassment as she hadn't brought the matching earrings. The wedding present earrings. On a night out for our 10th wedding anniversary. Bloody useless, that woman. Doesn't deserve me!
To be fair I'm slightly annoyed at myself, I should have foreseen her uselessness and checked that she hadn't left the earrings behind...
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She said she *hated books so I bought her the rough guide to Japan. 😉
ETA: *as gifts, she's not a commoner!
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Chromag Wideangle.
Not as gaudy as my Surface... 🙂
Made a framed picture of a heart made out of a 20p coin from every year since she was born for her 30th.
Took quite a while to get all of the coins and I had to buy a special one for 1986 as for some reason that year they didn't release any.
But she loved the thought and it only cost me about £10 in total (I did get her other stuff as well, I'm not that tight!)
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I've been refurbishing a vintage wooden kayak for the past couple of months. Sneaking out a few nights a week to my parents garage to secretly add yet a-bloody-nother coat of varnish.
Hmmm, Mrs Scruff's best prezzie will be realising that Mr Scruff hasn't been sneaking out to meet the Other Woman 😉