Author Topic: So, What did you get for Christmas ?  (Read 8047 times)

Rupert the bear

  • Joined Jun 2015
So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« on: December 25, 2017, 04:22:06 pm »
I got a new walking stick with a wide bottom and a built in torch, how about you ?

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2017, 04:36:29 pm »

60 paving slabs, plus some sharp sand and concrete to build a proper pathway in my Keder greenhouse (present from last year)..... I am easy to please!


alang

  • Joined Nov 2017
  • Morayshire
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2017, 04:42:27 pm »
Tools and machinery for the smallholder book by John Bezzant. Very good read so far. Learning about compact tractors.

It's my birthday soon and i'm getting the Gold Cockrel book about Fencing  :excited:
I'm not scared to be seen, I make no apologies. This is me!

cans

  • Joined May 2013
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2017, 04:51:31 pm »
I got a new (fancy) cheese grater, much to the horror of OHs workmates..  :roflanim:
I needed a new one, so why not  ;D

Sbom

  • Joined Jul 2012
  • Staffordshire
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2017, 09:22:35 pm »
A microscope so I can start doing fec’s  ;D

Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2017, 09:51:55 pm »
An IOU for a generator in the next Machine Mart 20% off event.  The last of the romantics.  He did take me out for a chinese lunch today though.

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2017, 10:09:25 pm »
A pruning saw from my grandchildren  :tree: :tree: :tree:   Don't think they're offering to come and help though  :roflanim:
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2017, 10:13:25 am »
Two roll-on deodorants and a four pack of Heinz tomato soup!  ;D
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2017, 10:21:45 am »
Odour free, dog proof, covered cat litter box;Cairn no mhor elderberry presse; Extendable so I don't have to bend pooper scooper; Electric propagator; Leather gloes to replace the ones eaten by Allez.   :innocent: And now I need replacemnt apple trees as some small deer have been in overnight and chewed the bark off threee mature ones.  Good job my birthday is on Saturday.
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Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

pharnorth

  • Joined Nov 2013
  • Cambridgeshire
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2017, 12:12:41 pm »
Andrew James meat slicer. Properly sliced home done air dried ham yesterday. Proper sliced home produced bacon this morning. 

harmony

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2017, 05:39:29 pm »
Just a wide bottom with no stick and torch - from eating too much! :yum:

devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #11 on: December 26, 2017, 07:36:00 pm »
A dear daughter-in-law who came and cooked Jim, Jim's Ma and I a delicious Christmas lunch :)

Terry T

  • Joined Sep 2014
  • Norfolk
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #12 on: December 26, 2017, 08:24:00 pm »
Friends round to share a delicious goose and a pair of chainsaw boots from my lovely husband. Perfect...

Black Sheep

  • Joined Sep 2015
  • Briercliffe
    • Monk Hall Farm
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2017, 10:04:29 pm »
Our first half dozen ewes  :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: ;D

Rupert the bear

  • Joined Jun 2015
Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
« Reply #14 on: December 26, 2017, 11:19:55 pm »
Friends round to share a delicious goose and a pair of chainsaw boots from my lovely husband. Perfect...

How are you sharing the chainsaw boots ?

 

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