Good presents

My lovely missu got me a Bose Wave music system with Ipod dock as well as a kindle. Feeling very lucky! 🙂

My sister is still responding to her braf therapy. I’d like the same next year please. And for bikes; a set of teatowels for garage duties. Should save a few “discussions”. 😉

Oh I f##ked up bad this year. Got the wife a diary and it turned out to be a student diary… Wtf.. Why not just make them with all the months? Plus a right cheapo bath pillow and eye mask. I’ll be sleeping with the dog later.. 😯

The whole osoxo household has had a good old haul of pressies.

What model is that, and how much?

Not worn a watch in about 20 years, but that picture is very close to making me change that tradition.

Edit: Found it. *whistles* pricey…

Overshoes for both mtb and road. It will probably stop raining now.

My mum’s a good knitter, could I borrow this for a bit?

Hehe – made me smile.

New Lumi LED light here and Velodrome Scalectrix. Nice mini whisky/ey mix (Scottish and Irish). Plus a couple of hours watching the kids get excited – priceless.

Got a ted baker hat, coffee grinder, coffee beans to put in it, vip tickets for the bike show and some other things from my girlfriend. It’s our first Christmas together, very happy 🙂

A map and guidebook for the Bob Graham Round.

And slippers

Jamie, I spent a similar amount on a G-shock well over ten years ago. It’s still going strong, and even on the original battery! Very, very good value for money. Even if that one looks a little too

for my tastes!

😉

something different to the usual bike related bits.

The wife got me one of these

Beastmaker 1000 Series

Hoping it will help push my climbing grade and produce a grip of death, and it made a nice change from the usual things like pants 😀

i did good,
bottle of Dalwhinnie, just sat sipping one.
on one merino cardigan, cos i am a grandad and grandads can wear cardi’s.
a northface parka…..cos i need to keep toasty.
a alpkit sleeping mat.
a alpkit head torch.
and some sheepskin slippers……….. 😆

alpkit hunka xl, some mob socks and a 20l dry bag here… bivvying is on my to do list for next year!

Sufferfest and tickets to Reginald D Hunter.

biblongs
levi roots cookbook
surface windbreaker
a nice sweater and t-shirt (with ubercool graf related prints)
that bike art book
the obligatory new riding gloves

Very happy

Some Endura waterproof shorts which are likely to be very useful pleased with those.

Sealskinz socks and whisky miniatures both should be very handy 🙂

Small pPanasonic waterproof camera and wiggos and Tyler’s books

-Brasher gtx ‘light’ walking boots. Brown leather, not too chunky, fit nice, well chuffed!

-6 disc Truffaut film collection 8)
Portland Design Works “king of ding” brass bicycle bell. 8) 8) (available from your friendly singlespeed Bikemonger so the wife says)

-No Wiggo book, will I be missing out?

A boxed and unused Nikon FM2(n) body.
I would have been happy with just that for christmas alone.
Have been itching to get my hands on a good 35mm film camera for ages.

Signed Beastie Boys poster, and a clarkes tool chest. Good job missus!

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Nexus 7 and first post on it here and now 😆 also trying out the Jura Superstition !

Also gf is paying for us to go zorbing, can’t wait 🙂

New UVEX XC helmet.
Ergon grips.
2 Sigma Sport bike computers (they were 1/2 price and 2 went over the free shipping threshold).

I’m happy. Its all stuff that I asked for and will actually use!

I hate you all, i got a load of utter shite off the wife. In fact i knew i would so i decided before christmas that id treat myself to a reverb!

Chrismas is for the kids in out house now as its pointless going out of my way to get the wife anything as it wont be repaid

New wallet – should last me a good few years…

Great call by Mrs .B. I wanted one of these since I was eight or so, somehow didn’t get round to buying one.

That is a really nice wallet!

[Not my photo.]

its pointless going out of my way to get the wife anything as it wont be repaid

Someone has the spirit of Christmas… 😯

I’ve got a coffee machine and some ace espresso cups from my folks, a nice bottle of Chateauneuf from my sister, meal voucher for our favourite Italian from my father in law. My wife and I didn’t buy for each other this year as we’ve both had a car since September. No bike stuff, but I’m buying some bike packing stuff as my Xmas treat.

Even if it looks a little:

…that’s why I like it. Retro-tastic.

A kindle, a bottle if The Laddie and some stuff about the TT, also weirdly a good mood for Xmas which is unlike me……I am a very lucky (and often grumpy but not this year) boy

recieved my combined birthday and christmas present,

im speachless

Got some cool bike related stuff.

Bluetooth HRM
Vans Gravels
Fox Flux

But for a big kid, the biggest grin came from my new light sabre pen!

a kindle fire and a huge pizza paddle for the kitchen . need a job in pizza hut to use it though!

TLD Ruckus shorts, Guy Martin calendar, more ski socks and four bottles of San Migel…
Shocked that I’m amused by a calendar with a Vauxhall Astra in it… 😮

From my sister and bro-in-law