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Help - What to buy my Mum for Xmas?


GazB

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I'm stuck!

 

I'm usually amazing at thinking of stuff to buy but my mind has drawn a blank this year.

 

Looking to spend about £70.

 

Can't get perfume as my brother's bought her that.

Can't get her a new phone, as my Dad's bought her that (along with every other thing she might like)

Don't think she'd go for a makeover or vouchers etc...

 

Any ideas???

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Christmas is strange time, it’s a time for joy and giving and also a time for thanks and intense reflection. My present always presents a dilemma for my wife, it’s not that she cannot decide on a gift, the problem is she has simply no idea what to get me. You would of thought after 22 years of marriage she’d know what I’d like; I suppose we don’t really know each other at all and nor do I want to.

 

This year though is an exception. They say that imitation is the best form of flattery and this Christmas I am going to flatter my friend and neighbor Roy Pikering by copying what he got given last year.

 

I remember the scene as if were yesterday, it was Boxing day and I was out in my front garden digging a hole when I looked up the street and saw Roy’s stout boaters legs carrying him down our road. I immediately noticed his gift at his side, it was a brand new gleaming bucket. Roy had used it to carry his packed lunch to work, I was lost for words when he passed by. The following weekend I was doing some washing up in the kitchen and I saw him getting his bike out of the shed, he was probably going fishing or maybe fancied some exercise. Just before he rode off he placed his bucket on his head, employing it as a safety helmet, I watched in rapt wonder. The following day was bitterly cold and rainy, this didn’t stop Roy though, out he went for his morning constitutional again wearing the bucket on his head, using this time as a rain resistant bonnet.

 

Roy’s gain will also be mine on the 25th, his wife’s knowledge and understanding should serve and food for thought for other wives. After all, a little time and thought go a long long way these days.

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