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Post by housesparrow on Oct 20, 2008 9:41:30 GMT
Christmas gift ideas, please, for the above. Mine also has a birthday in December.
Preferably nothing alcoholic or fattening.
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Post by Patrick on Oct 20, 2008 12:09:48 GMT
S'funny. The other day I penned a message wondering what I should ask for for my 40th. Seeing as Best Beloved is getting a Digital Piano for hers! - but I thought "There's enough about me on here as it is!" I remember a piece of advice on what to buy the woman who has everything? A bra with three cups!  What are your Best Beloved's interests? |
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 20, 2008 12:13:07 GMT
Jack Sparrow is into boats - or rahter one fishing boat. He buys everything he needs for it from catalogues, and already subscribes to fishing magazines so that's out!
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Post by Patrick on Oct 20, 2008 12:55:47 GMT
I've a relation like that - their home is cluttered with really expensive looking models of boats and yachts. We bought them a pair of £1 wooden boats from a pound shop. Irony!  |
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 20, 2008 17:17:51 GMT
 One thing we don't need is more clutter! So it either has to be something for the boat or consumable. He is in a lot of pain with his back and feet, and I am half tempted to buy him a voucher for a massage, but have a horrid feeling he wouldn't go.
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 20, 2008 18:07:50 GMT
Just after posting that, I thought of the ideal present - one of those "miner's lamps" that go round the head, leaving both hands free.
Jack came home at 6pm and chattily announced "Today I bought one of those lamps that attach to the head."
Grrrr!!!
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Post by motorist on Oct 20, 2008 18:57:46 GMT
Is that the Davy Lamp? (or whatever it was called). A most weird pressie idea but if that's what he wants, go for it  |
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 20, 2008 19:15:48 GMT
It's just a little torch on a strap that acts like a headlamp. I know, because he proudly showed it to me!
All you guys - think of something (anything!) that you would like as a pressie.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 20, 2008 22:44:22 GMT
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Post by everso on Oct 20, 2008 22:46:07 GMT
Just after posting that, I thought of the ideal present - one of those "miner's lamps" that go round the head, leaving both hands free. Jack came home at 6pm and chattily announced "Today I bought one of those lamps that attach to the head." Grrrr!!! Hmmmm. Mr. E. does things like that. The older they get the more difficult it becomes (present buying that is) Does he like gardening? I bought Mr. E. a few old fashioned roses in pots for his birthday a couple of years ago. |
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Post by Patrick on Oct 20, 2008 23:01:28 GMT
I dread to think what happens if you were to Google that!  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 20, 2008 23:05:36 GMT
I dread to think what happens if you were to Google that! The sad thing is, if you did google "flashaholic", you'd probably find tons of links to one of my old haunts...."candle power forums".  AH |
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Post by Patrick on Oct 20, 2008 23:13:05 GMT
With specifications as long as that - I suppose these are posher then "Maglites"?
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 20, 2008 23:19:39 GMT
Aye, brighter, better regulation, better materials, better componants, better emitter, better build quality. AH |
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Post by Patrick on Oct 20, 2008 23:22:08 GMT
Better then!? |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 20, 2008 23:22:53 GMT
Better then!? ;D AH |
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 21, 2008 7:53:13 GMT
Yippee! I've thought of something. Jack Sparrow likes watching other birds, so I shall buy him one of those clamps so he can fix the telescope to his car window and sit warm and dry while the dabchicks strut their stuff.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 22, 2008 8:53:33 GMT
Yippee! I've thought of something. Jack Sparrow likes watching other birds, so I shall buy him one of those clamps so he can fix the telescope to his car window and sit warm and dry while the dabchicks strut their stuff. Did you find that via the "7dayshop" link I posted? Loads of cool stuff there. AH |
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 22, 2008 11:24:37 GMT
AH - I'm afraid the whole sire is too big for my old computer and dial up connection.
A couple of years ago I asked him for a penknife and got one of those Swiss Army knife jobs your link took me to. But what I had wanted (and thought I had asked for) was a penknife - a single one - in a little case. They don't seem to make them any more.
Until this week I thought that a "flashlight" was a torch for sending coded messages across the English Channel and similar obscure uses. Now I know better, that is much the best idea and thanks.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 22, 2008 12:32:18 GMT
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