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What can I ask for Christmas?

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    LG_ said:
    Bridgedale socks. Much much too expensive to buy for yourself but a little piece of heaven to wear. I've asked for them enough times now that I get to wear some every day 😉
    I caught my wife sneaking about in a pair of my Bridgedales the other day. She could hold Guinness World Records for how quickly she can wear out socks and I was not amused. I only wear them on special occasions such a particularly fine hike and they've kept my feet happy for many miles with no sign of wear yet. No sign of wear on the socks that is. My feet are a different matter :#

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    A Niwaki Hori Hori …..you’ll never look back 😀😀

    It also makes you look very scary 😦 
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410


    See what I mean 😂🤣😂
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    🎁 Tickets to Chelsea /Hampton Court

    🎁 An evening with a male escort? (For you. Or for him. Whichever works best for you).

    🎁 Some very posh face cream / night cream / serums (I can recommend a few, if they're sort of your thing)

    🎁 A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners (a lovely book)

    🎁  A long weekend at Knepp in a hut or a yurt, if there are bookings free. Or in a B&B nearby

    🎁 Orthodonic work

    🎁  A tree

    🎁 A poo implant

     - - -
    .. and ideally all at the same time.


  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited December 2021
    A poo implant! Fantastic. That will be a conversation starter when the neighbours ask what you had for Christmas. 

    I have to say I like the more original suggestions. I think I’d prefer a packet of Oxo cubes to a pair of socks. 😉

    The Little Book of Latin for Gardeners is a favourite of mine too.
    Rutland, England
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    chicky said:
    A Niwaki Hori Hori …..you’ll never look back 😀😀

    It also makes you look very scary 😦 
    Totally agree. I worry about using it in the front garden as I'm aware that passers by will see it glinting threateningly. But it's a marvellous thing. 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I love my hori-hori too, especially when travelling about. Passers by certainly back off when they see me with it.

    Poo tranplants are apparently terrifically successful. The future is ....
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Some good ideas. Thank you 
    Last year, I asked for a replacement for a well - used cookery book. He couldn't find a new one  line. So he got me a second hand one. Fair enough for any other book - but not a cookery book. It could've been anywhere.😒
    That knife looks scary.
    I do need new sofas - but a bit impersonal.
    Poo implant no. I'll stick to my own microbiome (refer to cookery book comnent)
    I never wear anything on my feet indoors. Perhaps I could leave them at the front door.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Just a heads up … Millets online have a sale on Bridgedale socks atm. https://www.millets.co.uk/winter-essentials/socks/

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If you want secateurs, and you would buy them at a garden centre near you, why not tell him you want a pair of secateurs, and make sure he knows which GC.
    Tell him to make sure he has a receipt. 

    Then go back and change them for the ones you want....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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