Please can I have any helpful suggestions on what to buy my brother-in-law for his 50th birthday.

Try to keep it reasonably sensible my forumming friends!

Thanking you in anticipation of some marvellous ideas. xx

We need a bit more than his age to suggest something really.

For instance - do you like him?

Its important as we may suggest some unpleasantries for someone you do not like but feel obligued to buy for.

Dragon

Well Nick - that is the problem really. We are not a very close family and dont see much of him. Only recently re-united following the death of our Nan.
He rides a motor bike and likes gardening is all I can think of!

Dragon - we like him well enough, he is a tad boring however.

buy him a garden knome with long hair and a bald patch..

lol Kirky. Maybe a garden ornament though - mmmm theres an idea

A Thai bride, mistress, blow up doll ? Just a thought ...........

What sort of budget do you have?

As he will be 50, prepared to go up to £50 I think Max

Originally posted by max
What sort of budget do you have? Sorry Max, off topic I know, but I read that as "What sort of budgie do you have?" :hihi:

here you are sultana SORRY LOL!!!:D
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£50's worth of Lottery Tickets - could end up being the best present he ever had!!!

How about a Red Letter Day - they sell them in Boots and Argos it's things like Hot Air Ballooning or Car Racing, Quad Bikes etc. There are various day activities - not sure how much but maybe another family member could go halfs with you. :thumbsup:

Originally posted by dawny1
£50's worth of Lottery Tickets - could end up being the best present he ever had!!!

How about a Red Letter Day - they sell them in Boots and Argos it's things like Hot Air Ballooning or Car Racing, Quad Bikes etc. There are various day activities - not sure how much but maybe another family member could go halfs with you. :thumbsup:

Good idea Dawny, just what a 50 year old wants. :thumbsup:

Steevie - thanks for that - made me laugh.

Dawny - good ideas those - especially as they were endorsed by Owdlad - whose birthday it ISNT today!

Thanks

Hi Sultana- if this is the person that I think it is (is he having a weekend party in the Dales?) then I'd get him something music related- new strings for his mandolin, some easy but nice sheet music (he has plenty of time on his hands in out of the way places to practice it), something like that. In fact, that's the kind of thing that I think I'll be getting him.

Alternatively, take a trip to the aquatic gardening centre and get him a lovely new marginal plant or similar.

Thanks Medusa, but not the same geezer. No weekend in the dales for us mores the pity!

Oh well, sorry! There's a big coincidence there, you know.

how about a bottle of whisky/wine/port/etc... that was bottled in the year he was born?

Originally posted by sultana
Well Nick - that is the problem really. We are not a very close family and dont see much of him.

I think I'd just send a card then, and wait until you know him a bit better before you buy a prezzie.

Originally posted by max
What sort of budget do you have?

why have you got one going cheap?

Originally posted by Cyclone
how about a bottle of whisky/wine/port/etc... that was bottled in the year he was born?
i was gonna get owdlad the very same but couldn't afford the 3 million quid southerbys were askin:hihi:

Get him some M&S Vouchers ;)

Part of original post by sultana
-We are not a very close family and dont see much of him.-Originally posted by sultana
As he will be 50, prepared to go up to £50 I think Max
JEEZ! You're going to spend 50 notes on someone who isn't close family? ... If you ever consider adopting, can I ask that you bear me in mind please? ... I'm fully house-trained! ;)

Originally posted by Bic0
JEEZ! You're going to spend 50 notes on someone who isn't close family? ... If you ever consider adopting, can I ask that you bear me in mind please? ... I'm fully house-trained! ;)

read more carefully. It's his brother, that's close family. They just aren't a very close family.

Thank you all very much for your help - I now have a few ideas to mull over, alternatively, I shall just leave it up to my husband to decide - it is his brother after all!

Stiil wish I was going to this party in the dales though! lol

Originally posted by Cyclone
read more carefully. It's his brother, that's close family. They just aren't a very close family.
Read even more carefully and you'll see that he's a she and it's her brother-in-law that she's talking about.... :lol:

Close family that aren't a very close family, eh? Of Irish extraction maybe?

My initial post was a JOKE Cyclone, hardly worth your pedantry I think? ;)

BicO
If ever we get rich, I shall remember you fondly! lol

Originally posted by sultana
BicO
If ever we get rich, I shall remember you fondly! lol
Sultana, whilst ever you're buying expensive presents for non-close family members, that's probably not going to happen! :( ;)

BicO
You said it - he is my husbands only brother - as blood relatives go they dont get much closer. However, we dont see them very often, but when it comes to special occasions - you have to forget the petty squabbles of youth - and do the decent thing. We may only spend £20 if we find the right gift....and no....I cant send you the difference. lol

If he likes gardening what about a national gardening gift voucher. Website (http://www.nggv.co.uk) says can be used in over 2000 garden centres.

Originally posted by sultana
Please can I have any helpful suggestions on what to buy my brother-in-law for his 50th birthday.

Try to keep it reasonably sensible my forumming friends!

Thanking you in anticipation of some marvellous ideas. xx

what would any 50 year old man want?

lesbian porn of course! :D