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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Womble on October 23, 2018, 09:04:24 pm
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It's Mrs Womble's birthday soon and her wellies are leaking, so I bought her a new pair (don't worry, I've got her something else as well).
I can't think of an imaginative way to give them to her though. Last time I arranged flowers in them, so I've got to beat that somehow this time. Any ideas? :thumbsup:
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Fill them with her favourite chocolates? Lindor balls (esp white ones) would do it for me...
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Set up a treasure trail/hunt with the wellies as the prize - wrapped in gold paper - her gold medal
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Just wrap them in newspaper... don't start getting soft or she'll expect something nice again next year...save the other prezzie for christmas.:-)
pgk
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Just wrap them in newspaper... don't start getting soft or she'll expect something nice again next year...save the other prezzie for christmas.:-)
pgk
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Fill them with little individually wrapped items such as lip balm, hand cream, key fob.
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In my family, we tend to be a bit more evil, so I would do something like freeze them in a block of ice and give her a hair dryer to thaw them with.
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Pah ! You softie, 2 5p carrier bags to line the old ones , you could go overboard and get spare bags if you really loved her.
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It's Mrs Womble's birthday soon and her wellies are leaking, so I bought her a new pair (don't worry, I've got her something else as well
I would have thought a new pair of wellies is quite sufficient. Perhaps some insoles to go with them. (Unless it’s a significant birthday and you could up it to socks).
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Oh and there is me having just had to stump up for a new pair for myself !
… my Aigle Parcours just sprung a small leak :(
I hope those new wellies are at least as good as Aigle Parcours, Womble!!!
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Just leave them behind the curtains with the toes sticking out..
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It's Mrs Womble's birthday soon and her wellies are leaking, so I bought her a new pair (don't worry, I've got her something else as well).
I can't think of an imaginative way to give them to her though. Last time I arranged flowers in them, so I've got to beat that somehow this time. Any ideas? :thumbsup:
Well, chocolates in one and champagne in the other tops flowers. But I’m with SD, I’d sooner have practical gifts and or ones which show a little understanding things that I love.
Many years ago, I was going to be visiting the then boyfriend at his parents’ place at Christmastime, so his mum had asked him what I’d like for a present. I ran an ancient Moggy Minor at the time. “I know she’s after a grease gun,” he’d replied. “That’s not very feminine, can’t you think of anything else?”, his mum had said. After pondering, he’d replied, “Weeeellll.... she has mentioned she’d like some axle stands.”
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If Mrs Womble is :spin: spinning these days, what about some lovely prepped fibre for a treat?
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Many years ago, I was going to be visiting the then boyfriend at his parents’ place at Christmastime, so his mum had asked him what I’d like for a present. I ran an ancient Moggy Minor at the time. “I know she’s after a grease gun,” he’d replied. “That’s not very feminine, can’t you think of anything else?”, his mum had said. After pondering, he’d replied, “Weeeellll.... she has mentioned she’d like some axle stands.”
I love it!It reminds me of the time V went to car maintenance classes determined to have soem basic idea of car stuff. So I bought her a socket set for Christmas. Jeez, she gave me an earful for that!!! Still it wasn't all bad.. I own a half decent socket set..
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Many years ago, I was going to be visiting the then boyfriend at his parents’ place at Christmastime, so his mum had asked him what I’d like for a present. I ran an ancient Moggy Minor at the time. “I know she’s after a grease gun,” he’d replied. “That’s not very feminine, can’t you think of anything else?”, his mum had said. After pondering, he’d replied, “Weeeellll.... she has mentioned she’d like some axle stands.”
I love it!It reminds me of the time V went to car maintenance classes determined to have soem basic idea of car stuff. So I bought her a socket set for Christmas. Jeez, she gave me an earful for that!!! Still it wasn't all bad.. I own a half decent socket set..
You're with the wrong woman!!! I'd have loved a decent socket set!!! I've got a half decent one that got left behind when someone moved... which does the job I guess.
I had a fabulous collection of socket sets and spanners. Whitworth, Imperial and Metric. :censored: ex-hub nicked them when we parted - I’d owned them for more than a decade before I met him. :furious: :furious:
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I well remember the year that my mother was horrified when I told her what my husband had given me for Christmas. I can't see why. I'd wanted a wormery for ages and told her so. She still doesn't think it was much of a present. Not surprising really. She also couldn't understand why I kept goats for so many years.
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I had a fabulous collection of socket sets and spanners. Whitworth, Imperial and Metric. :censored: ex-hub nicked them when we parted - I’d owned them for more than a decade before I met him. :furious: :furious:
Sounds like you're better off without him... unfortunate the socket sets were the price you had to pay to get shot!
Good way to look at it!
My GBF at the time had me change the errant soon-to-be-ex-hub's entry on my phone to "Selfish *4nker", which fitted very well. :innocent:
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If Mrs Womble is :spin: spinning these days, what about some lovely prepped fibre for a treat?
I sell knitting yarn btw. 10 balls for £10 lol
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My Christmas present to my wife last year was new LED floodlights in her barn/stables. She was over the moon with them as it was the first time she had been able to muck out the horses with proper lighting for over 10 years.
For her birthday this year she had new guttering on the barn/stables.
New wellies?! That would be a very special treat.
I bought an Aigle boot bag to go with her new pair when I treated her a while back. The floodlights were definitely a better idea....
I realise that these may not be traditional 'gifts for the lady in your life' but if I bought her perfume or lip balms etc she would likely throw them at me.
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Thanks for the ideas everybody. After careful consideration, I have decided to go with [member=23109]Mad Goatwoman of Madeley[/member] 's suggestion, and fill them with worms :idea: . I'm confident that Mrs Womble will be delighted :cake: .
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My mum always wanted something personal for birthdays etc, couldn't understand me wanting some oven/table cookware (hadnt been married long). But one year she asked me what I wanted, I said 'miners helmet and matching headlights for my wheelbarrow (before the head torches came in). She laughed, I got a boring sweater ?.
Once got a wheelbarrow and muck fork off a boyfriend though, best present. Mum was disgusted.
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Thanks for the ideas everybody. After careful consideration, I have decided to go with [member=23109]Mad Goatwoman of Madeley[/member] 's suggestion, and fill them with worms :idea: . I'm confident that Mrs Womble will be delighted :cake: .
Not quite what I said, Womble, so don’t go blaming me if she doesn’t appreciate them.
The funny thing is with my mum, when I was a child and would ask her what she would like as a gift, she always asked for tea towels. I never did buy any.
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Not quite what I said, Womble
Don't worry, I do also appreciate your other suggestions. However, I'm afraid that a goat might eat the wellies, which would be no use at all. Oh, and before you ask, yes I do have extensive experience of this sort of thing......
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And there was me thinking those tales of shepherds, sheep and wellies were just myth :hugsheep: :innocent:
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And there was me thinking those tales of shepherds, sheep and wellies were just myth :hugsheep: :innocent:
I did think, should I tell him why it’s not been working..,
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U meen I'm doing it all rong? :innocent:
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U meen I'm doing it all rong? :innocent:
Well, I suppose it depends... different strokes for different folks, I guess... :innocent:
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Unfortunately the worms didn't arrive in time, so I had to come up with something else.
So, apart from sheep, what else does Mrs Womble like? Aha! Cheese! :idea:
In the end I went for the tried and tested Hunter Vase for one foot, and a cheese for every year of her life for the other. Sometimes I just amaze myself with my own brilliance :dunce: .
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Love it.. and she gets the worms when they arrive as well.
The cheese for each year is a great idea but it would give me a problem with having to open one of the eight dairy lea triangles boxes to take two out.. :roflanim:
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Love it.. and she gets the worms when they arrive as well.
The cheese for each year is a great idea but it would give me a problem with having to open one of the eight dairy lea triangles boxes to take two out.. :roflanim:
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