[bsadevon]

Look what Santa bought me - tried it out last night, not bad for a tenner from Asda. Came with mains & car charger.

(http://demo.statusinternationaluk.co.uk/index.php/1-million-candle-status-rechargeable-lantern.html)



Did anyone else get anything useful......?

[Fleecewife]

Those torches are essential.  As well as for finding black lambs in the night, mine is used for seeing off people 'parking up' opposite our house  - just shine that into their cars from the comfort of your own front door and they soon drive off    Also great for investigating strange noises around the place without having to go too close.

I got a stainless steel compost bucket for the kitchen    Now I just need the rest of the kitchen to match 

[bsadevon]

Worked in a few commercial  stainless steel kitchens - be good if your can soften it up a bit with wood - I ended up black and blue from bumping into things in the heat of service.

Yeah these torches are good - thing is I've just seen a 2 million CP one - I can see this turning into an arms race.....

Have a great 2011.

[TheGirlsMum]

I'm awaiting delivery of my birthday present........a purple wheelbarrow......a clean one!

[bsadevon]

First you start with purple - then yellow - where does it end a rainbow spectrum of barrows.....

[doganjo]

I'm awaiting delivery of my birthday present........a purple wheelbarrow......a clean one!

Do they have pink ones?  My orange one has after many years service sprung a leak - it was just a B & Q cheapy chat but been hard at work for nigh on 10 years.

[little blue]

I had a new camera - so expect lots more animal pics 
and socks / scarves/ very nice leather gardening gloves (continually drying them out at the moment - first use on Christmas day to go to the animals!)

we  had a major flood in the kitchen following frozen then burst central heating pipe... so hopefully the nice Insurance people (when they are back off their hols!) will be helping us get some nice new shiny things...

[kaz]

I've seen pink wheelbarrows about, they are definately colour co-ordainated now.
I got a Tefal actifry, an expensive chip pan from what I can see. I hate chips nearly as much as much as cooking. Do you think he is trying to tell me something?

[smallholder in the city]

A GOS pig! well a voucher that can be exchanged for a pig by December 2012. So that means 2011 is definitely the year that we move out of London and start full size smallholding. and a book written by the River cottage head gardener (a taste of the unexpected) all about growing unusual fruit/veg/spices/herbs.

[plumseverywhere]

Santa was very good to me this year and paid a visit to Joules clothing which is a bit of a luxury for me now!! I was also supplied with a few bottles of southern comfort, chocolate and books on growing veg 
my 7 year old asked for a cockerel which was cute 
Just got giggles imagining fleecewife flashing her torch at people 'parking up'   

[TheGirlsMum]

Yes, you can get pink barrows. I already have an orange B&Q one but that's used for all the dirty stuff, my nice clean purple one will be for moving haylage across the fields etc.

I love the idea of the pig voucher, would have got one of those for the oh if I'd known where to find one around these parts.

[CameronS]

new wellies - the super warm muckboot ones 

[Sandy]

Whoooooooooooo I know Mr Joules very well !!!!!! ANyway, my bestest EVER gift was to be with ALL my daughters and gain a wonderful husband...money cannot buy that and I do not need anything else...mind you, I would have loved a twin tub!!!!

[bsadevon]

Damm missed a trick with the "Flashing" quote - might attract them not scare then away....lol

[morri2]

Bought the same flashlight for my nine year old and he loves it (so does his Dad so I'm keeping a close eye on it!)  As for me _ OH bought me a tool kit and a padlock (?). Santa bought me two excruciating migraines resulting in four days in bed between Christmas night and Thursday evening - Definitely not the best Christmas I have ever had.