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Anything weird? life-changing? funny? insulting?……
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I received a book from my husband called 100 things to know about men for my birthday 20 years ago my response was here’s 1 thing you don’t know about me. I’m very ungrateful and gave it him back
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My now ex partner went out Christmas shopping one Christmas eve with the intention of buying me a foot spa. He got waylayed in the pub for the afternoon and when he came out from the pub, rather drunk, the only shop left open was Robert Dyas, To my surprise on Christmas morning what was supposed to be a foot spa was a bread bin!!!
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That must have been a big surprise Maddy, did you soak your feet in it?😂
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A photo of flowers, apparently some had been planted in my name in a field. I didn’t even get any of them once they were in bloom. This was from someone who was usually great at gift buying.
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Err…A thoughtful gift maybe Kitty? Did the flowers have any special significance for you?
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We got a bath towel, yes just one, for a wedding present from my eldest brother and his new wife. That was just the start of all the crappy thoughtless gifts we got from them over the years. My brother had always been so generous till he met and married her. We all breathed a sigh of relief when she finally left him to go and make someone else miserable.
One of the best gifts I have ever received was a song written for me by my boyfriend, now husband. It is called “Crazy Lady” Exactly sums up who I am and how he feels about me still.-
Oh how lovely Josie, do you feel you could share it or is it private?
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It has been sung in so many folk clubs and other venues over the years so I guess I could. However here is just a little bit: “One day you’ll find me at your door with my arms all full of daisies and you will know I have taken to the old fashioned ways of saying your my crazy lady your mine”
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Yeah I eventually got to the point that I could laugh about the towel but I never got to laugh about her. She was and still is one of the most horrible people I have ever been unfortunate to meet. We (the family) all cringed when he announced that they were getting married. He was such a kind hearted man and she was hard and cold and she still is to this day. He was broken hearted when she left and we had to pick up the pieces and put him back together. She walked out and left him with two young teenage children. And she had the audacity to turn up at his funeral a few years ago. We were so shocked. However it is all water under the bridge now and I don’t have the towel any more😂
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And your husband must obviously still be crazy about you!
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Well he is either crazy about me or just plain crazy. Probably the later lol
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My parents obviously thought I needed organising ,so bought me a filing cabinet and file deviders 🙄
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That would have be preferable! I do use it but it’s hidden away not the most stylish of gifts
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When you give birth to your first born (35yrs ago) you’d expect a locket or anything other than the microwave I got. He nearly got it rammed down his throat. You’d have thought that might have learned him a lesson but oh no. I got a towel rail for my Christmas and new towels for my birthday. His excuse was “well you did say you wanted them” Not as a flaming present 😩😩😩
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Worst birthday present.Dust pan and brush.Feminine hygiene products.
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I have always been an avid reader and I remember a Christmas present from my mother of a book. I was 7 years old it was called, the owl hoots twice at catfish bend. Got halfway through the book and the story switched to the second half of a completely different book. Mum got quite annoyed with me when I told her.
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Never found another copy of that book so still don’t know what happened
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hoots-Twice-Catfish-Puffin-Books/dp/0140303979
You could treat yourself and find out! 😂
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I was born in Windsor we moved a lot lived all over the place in Yorkshire we lived in Drax. I’ve live in sunny Devon and have done since I was 13 this was where my parents wanted to live and retire. Funny thing when they did retire mum moved to Lincolnshire dad to new Maldon. I was the only one to stay in Devon, much to mum’s disgust
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God no. Locals don’t use any major roads at the weekend. I used to live in Whimple which is between Honiton and Exeter (this was before the bypass that swampy didn’t want) you just couldn’t leave the village from Friday afternoon till Monday morning. Every weekend there were several serious accidents.
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I’ve never found that a great problem it’s the volume of traffic. I try not to be too critical of them, it’s the main source of income for the county. We have no industry unless you count care homes. The ones that get me are the people who retire here mainly from the Midlands who seem to do nothing but complain about everything from the social services to zoo animals at the end of the garden making them a too noise much noise (true story) and everything in between.
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It becomes a vicious circle. They have plenty of money. So can force up house prices which means those of working age can’t afford to buy so have to move elsewhere result not enough left to provide social care. Second home owners are a problem but the biggest is those who retire here. They pay nothing to the local authorities but demand everything going. Full disclosure I’m not a local having only lived and worked here for 47 years.
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Diss is in Norfolk I think .. East Anglia … bit further north than me. We looked around those parts for a potential job move at one point, but decided against it in the end (better the job he knew at the time I think). I live about half an hour from the bottom right of England – so follow the coast line from Devon until you have to do a sharp left to cut in towards London and that is where I hail from!
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My father introduced me to the books as a kid he read them when he was a kid. I loved the couple we got hold of. Written by the brother of syble thorndyke. Took me many years to get hold of the set. Even the paperbacks are as rare as hens teeth. We spent my step sons last holiday in Dymchurch traveling around the area Dover, Hastings and Chattam. Lovely are
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Ah what a story. When you wrote Chattam .. is that where the dockyard is? I used to live and work in Chatham, and it was the main shopping high street for where I lived when growing up. I lived about 8 miles away from there.
Great area Dover, Hastings, Dymchurch. I wonder if you did the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Light railway. I am sorry to hear the word ‘last’ next to holiday, but I do hope he and you really enjoyed the trip!
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Yes we spent the day at the dockyard, a fascinating place we had a great week the railway was closed as it was out of season and anyway we probably couldn’t have got him on it. He had Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. He passed the following year. And although we didn’t know it at the time that year was the best year for trips there was that holiday, Portsmouth and the new forest then 2 days at the recording of his favorate programme Robot Wars
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The crew were fantastic at Robot Wars it was only supposed to be one day but they asked if he could come back the next day so we had 2 days. He was invited back the next year but he passed 2 weeks before. He made me promise I would take his friend who also had DMD so I did and they had redesigned backstage to accommodate his wheelchair so he could drive the house robots sad but at least his friend got to do it. He passed a year after
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Oh goodness! What a great guy to be in the TAs and to go out there. How very sad that his life, along with many others of course, was cut short. I presume you feel a sense of pride. Must be very hard for their mum. Life is absolutely too short to expend energy on anger. Grieving is necessary for our mental well being, but to find a way of reaching beyond the grief to live your life again to the full is a blessing.
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I was once bought a blanket like a sack that you put your legs in to keep warm whilst lazing around.
Sounds great but if I needed to get up I had to remove it anyway as I couldn’t hop in it. So I didnt really see the point a normal blanket sufficed! -
We got married November 1975 and for Christmas my husband got a shirt from his NaN and she gave me furniture polish! Grrrrrr …………
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Perhaps I can lighten the mood by telling you about my all time worst gift. It was a Christmas gift from my sister. I know that she always likes to open her presents as soon as she receives them, so I should have known! I like to save them until Christmas morning. Her gift was a large, flat box, so big that the only place I could safely store it was behind the settee. What did I find when I opened it on Christmas Day morning……..36 assorted Christmas gift bags!
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When I were a kid & being from Yorkshire I watched cricket so my dad brought home a bat & ball for me, I spent hours playing with the ball , but the bat was absolutely useless , it just hung upside down in the airing cupboard all day!!!!!
My apolagies , I could not resist that, hope you don’t mind ..
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Definitely life-changing. Two weeks before my 40th birthday, my first daughter was born. We were too busy to think about anything else!
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A bottle of horrible wine and my friend was very happy about that wine. For her was the best one 🤭🙄
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A watch from my wife it was a freebie she got and it didn’t work even when I replaced the battery. She got angry that I didn’t wear it. The first and last gift I ever got from her
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Corr I dont know if it,s just me but I,ve done loads of shit and never meant to??but straight off the top ove my head I was working for a uk funfair in Malaysia (we worked or had to check ground every day)anyway Christmas day the boss has said he,s doing a Christmas dinner for all ove us at the hotel )anyway we only had to do to do a hours work and make sure everything is locked up(just remembered the place was called Miriam?😀)anyway about midday we were on our way back and hit a carnival as we thought?anyway it only being about a mile to the hotel we thought we would get off the pickup and walk along with the prossetion 😀we was wishing every one happy Christmas and making our way to the hotel in the middle of this procession as we got to the big roundabout just near the hotel we were still wishing everyone all the best and carol singing (our boss didn’t give free beer much) and as we’ve got right near the front I noticed a corpse in the back of a 3 ton truck??all i can say is what a twit 😀but if I didn’t have bad luck I,d have no luck at all 😀 night
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Have a collection of mugs from the ‘Secret Santa’ I was always press ganged into being involved in when I worked at my old company – being a chap in a mainly female environment meant I was bombarded with the most highly unoriginal collection of ‘geezer’, ‘soccer’, tat printed on it, it was possible to find!
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It used to drive me mad – especially as I was told in no uncertain terms that something like a box of chocolates was not an acceptable gift! So I had to run round like a lunatic and try to find something quirky and original – then cometh the day and I knew that my gift had always taken someone seconds to pick up from Boots! 😭 The next place I worked at I refused to be in the secret Santa as yet again it was nearly all woman and every year they called me a miserable git! 😭
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My 13th Birthday, my mum admits she has forgotten before I go to school and when l arrived home there is a cardboard box with some supermarket own toiletries on the kitchen bench
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😢Bless you, that’s sad – I hope she made it up to you another time.
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I was the oldest with two spoilt siblings remember one day dad giving me a bag inside was a potato peeler ☹️Said it all!!!
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Hi, for me, there are no bad gifts, I like everything I get, especially from my honey wife. A few months ago she gave me a nice set of drinkware from this shop https://northamericancrystal.com/lead-free-crystal-drinkware She knows how much I like high quality drinkware, and she chose an excellent set I use almost every day.
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A cling film dispenser, followed up by a pan handle cover 🤔🙄
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