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I got some lovely ones but I think the best one was the Beatles tour from my daughter and family with afternoon tea after we are going on the 23 Jan last year they gave me the Coranation Street tour

A Christmas text message from a dear friend ( almost blind and very disabled soldier) who i hadn't heard from for months.

it came Christmas lunch time right out of the blue am sure his carers helped him with it but i was in tears of happiness that he had thought of me...
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Difficult thinking which was the favourite as I had so many lovely ones. An interesting, iiffaattening one was from one grandson and his wife and Luke. It was a tower of treats, five varying sized matching boxes tied up with beatiful ribbon in a tower, each box contained fudge, toffees, biscuits and chocolates and the largest containes a Panetone. But a special one was a calendar that our granddaughter had had made from photos she has taken of trees and leaves, she is 13 and is getting to be a good photographer. All OH's presents to me were things I wanted, CDs etc, and a lovely little die cutting machine (a saphire by spellbinders), which I had wanted for a while but couldn't justify the cost for myself.

I'm sticking with my meat probe Ann and Joonie..

Absolutely brilliant! Not sure why I didn't have one years ago. It made light work of cooking the stuffed turkey crown I bought after the day! No thinking involved! :-D

I had another Christmas present yesterday. :-S

My OH gave me a bottle of my favourite perfume. He had bought it before Christmas but had hidden it so well he forgot about it. :-0

It was gratefully received though. :-D

We had a lovely present from our grandchildren which was a framed picture made with stones that they had collected on a recent holiday we had shared in Suffolk. :-D

A jar of homemade truffles and a jar of home made 'Chinese Spices' from our youngest & her partner. They are on a v tight budget, and still managed to think of something 'different'.

Afternoon tea for two voucher from my sister and partner.

Half the fun is planning when and where to go :-D

Chris

Foot duvets! Toastie toes in bed at last :-)

trade you Ann :-)

I'd go for a meat thermometer myself. The dial on mine has fogged over.

lavender I could offer you some chocolate-topped gluten-free shortbread cookies if you'd like to barter

my niece made them

.................... they're disgusting :-)

my OH once bought me a shocking pink nylon many layered nightdress which would have fitted someone who weighed twice as much as me - when I turned over in bed the nightdress didn't and I was nearly strangled - perhaps that was what was intended

a meat probe thermometer? I know where I would be sticking that probe and it would not be in dead meat :-D

meat probe thermometer! :-D

good thread, I like hearing what other people got for Christmas!

tall dude also gave me a fuzzy nightshirt with black and white sheep or cows or something on it ... very flatteringly, about 3 sizes too small, that I can only get on because it stretches

I could put it on and look like a very eyecatching overstuffed sausage and make him feel bad for getting me a not useful pressie, or hope he forgets about it, short-term memory problems and all

... or I could lose 3 sizes ... :-D

Strangely, one of my favourite presents was a mug!!
Lots of the family (and friends) went to my sisters for Christmas day, and there was a 'Secret Santa' for the adults.
I got a mug, with different shades of tea on it - including my favourite 'Builders'. :-D

Hopefully, I'll get back to temping soon (am at home with 'walking' pneumonia at the moment), so I can take my mug in, and get perfect tea every time :-D :-D :-D

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I checked it out :-)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stairlift-Heaven-Terry-Ravenscroft/dp/1908895020

tall dude was a teenaged boy at a time when any teenaged boy worth his salt had perfected his Zeppelin air guitar routine

(Stairway to Heaven, 1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q7Vr3yQYWQ

funny how the girls just never went so much for those bare torsoes and all :-)

not started reading it yet but the reviews are excellent - he has written many books on the same theme - hysterical apparently :-D

a Star Trek Deep Space Nine vintage coffee mug in its original box ;)

I prefer Next Generation, but this one was the best because while the tall dude was browsing in an antique shop with my mum while I was busy working, he picked it out himself, and that was a nice change from him picking out something *for* himself

AnnCardiff I am going to look up that book ... for him!

a bit boring ,but the family gave my husband a fold up footstool ,as he has to put his feet up every night ,he loves it ...for me a painting done by my daughter , which we are having framed . :-)

For my Christmas-time birthday my daughter designed and printed out some vouchers for 'Coffee and Cake'.
That will be great meeting up to shop and spend them together.

Enjoy Maryanna ! Lovely gift from your family ....... have a wonderful time. :-)