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🙈CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 11🙉

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Unfortunately, they'd still want to give me something to unwrap
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Gardening gloves in your size; seeds of particular varieties; compost; magazine subscription or issue; cosmetics and perfume you already know you like and like you; books; RHS membership.........

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited November 2020
    I have gloves I like -a bonding thing. Two bags of compost waiting for spring ditto seeds. Nowhere to wear perfume at the moment. I have plenty I'd rather smell the garden anyway.😞 RHS membership bought years ago. 
    I know. I'm a complete PITA
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They're a bit bony @pansyface five gold rings would be less maintenance than the other options
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Think laterally then.  If you're really fussy about garden stuff maybe ask for a particular bottle of wine/spirits/liqueur you fancy.   Use your imagination.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I also have no idea of what I would like this year. I'm very fussy about gardening gloves (must be Showa ones), got enough pots, obelisks and plant supports. Son bought me perfume last year which I haven't used up yet so who knows? Might just ask for gardening gift cards so I can treat myself next year.

    My curmudgeon today, my daughter ordered a fancy mug earlier to be delivered by Amazon, got an email saying it had been delivered - it wasn't, got a further text to say it had been handed to a person - it wasn't. Found it this morning where it had been thrown over the locked back garden gate! Fortunately it hadn't been broken.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've thunk so laterally,I'm stretched to snapping point. Last year, I ended up with grappa in a nice shaped bottle ( was going to use it on scale insects but I didn't have any) and weird flavoured gin and a bottle of amaretto ,the flavour of which has not been improved by it's name change - another pretty bottle though.
    As you can see,I'm deep into curmudgeon mode😡
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited November 2020
    Chocolates, booze ... a bouquet of gorgeous cut flowers to brighten this winter’s grim days, a box of Spanish turonn, a bottle of really really  expensive Extra Virgin olive oil or balsamic, some L’Occitane lemon verbena shower gel, body lotion etc ... any of that would give me a Christmas 😊  ... whoops! that’s not very curmudgeonly 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Dovefromabove said:
    Chocolates, booze ... a bouquet of gorgeous cut flowers to brighten this winter’s grim days, a box of Spanish turonn, a bottle of really really  expensive Extra Virgin olive oil or balsamic, some L’Occitane lemon verbena shower gel, body lotion etc ... any of that would give me a Christmas 😊  ... whoops! that’s not very curmudgeonly 🙄 
    Just cheap stuff then Dove 😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    B3 said:
    It's the time of year when well-meaning family  ask you what you want for Christmas.
    I'm of the age when I've got most of what I want. And anything I haven't, I want to pick for myself.
     Garden tools, you have to bond with. They need to be as balanced as a pair of well-matched Purdeys. Plants, they haven't a clue - the bonding thing again.
    Perfume and cosmetics, I want to sniff for myself.
     The giver thinks vouchers are a cop out (who knows if the company will be trading in January anyway)
    At this time of year, at my age, it is more virtuous to receive than to give.

    Can anybody suggest a way out of this conundrum?
    What on earth can I ask for😵?
    Am I the only person who doesn't know what a Purdey is, or how you find a well-matched pair of them?

    Ask them to choose a food gift from the Traidcraft catalogue.  There's everything from simple rice to seriously luxurious biscuits.  You'll have something to unwrap, and they'll be helping the producers out of poverty and supporting sustainable development.  I can recommend the ginger cookies (if you like ginger) and the olive oil.
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