I'm beginning to panic! What gift for Mrs RR?

[Globalti]

Thanks for the thoughtful suggestions. Chocolates are always a good standby.

 

[dan_bo]

Thanks for the thoughtful suggestions. Chocolates are always a good standby.

No they're not. Half decent suppliment, NOT a standby.

 

[dellzeqq]

Jo Malone 154 (£32 for 30ml, £64 for 100ml)

or CTC membership

 

[Arch]

Thanks for the thoughtful suggestions. Chocolates are always a good standby.

You said she doesn't like cooking, but does she like food? Could you make up a little hamper of goodies - for example, if I got a basket with some chocolates (Thorntons, or even just a box of Smarties for me!), some nice cheese, a bag of nice nibbly nuts (steady on!) etc...

In fact, I was given a hamper last year with such an enormous piece of parmesan in it, I've had it liberally grated on every pasta supper I've made (and that's a lot) and am only just finishing it off now....

 

[SavageHoutkop]

merino possum - I have a beanie of the stuff as well as some socks and they are great. A scarf is on my christmas list! My beanie is this one but the scarves are a different brand it seems here. The beanie goes on under the helmet for cycling when it's cold but is nice enough not to just be cycling specific.


If you're after chocs Hotel Chocolat is *the best*. I've gotten Mr SavageHoutkop a 'subscription' to the Tasting Club; they send you a new box every so often. Also have shops where you can buy goodies, good for the 'unwrapping' under the tree.

 

[Globalti]

She hates cooking. She is a veggie. She doesn't drink tea or coffee. She is permanently cold, probably because she llves on almost no food at all. She doesn't "do" camping, museums, galleries, cinemas (too dirty), any cheap clothing or shoes, doesn't wear perfume, jewellery, she has a Roberts DAB radio, expensive leather gloves, Bose iPod phones, a Bose dock, warm pyjamas, a Swiss Army knife, many warm designer sweaters, many pairs of boots.... need I go on?

The only things she seems to enjoy are a glass of red wine and chocolate, both Swiss dark and drinking and very expensive face cream. The only hints she has dropped all year are that she can't read the text on her phone, which she says is old-fashioned. However I don't think she would like the phones somebody kindly linked somewhere above as they are not iPhones or Sony Ericssons. I wouldn't dare buy her a phone because she would almost certainly not like my choice.

See my problem?

 

[Arch]

Could you leave her and marry someone more interesting in the present stakes?

Well, I'm out of ideas. Time to sponsor her a goat I think. Maybe when it reaches the stage of having everything, people should have a no presents arrangement.

I've also heard great things about merino possum stuff - if she's cold all the time....

 

[dan_bo]

£50 bag of herbal sedatives?

 

[SavageHoutkop]

She is a veggie.

scratch the merino possum then; as a possum did die to make it if I've got the story straight. That said she doesn't need to know that and you could de-stitch the care label...

 

[HobbesChoice]

Well, you originally said she gets upset that you've not made enough effort, so just write her a christmas card with the address of this thread on it. Then she'll see how much effort you made and how difficult she makes buying presents.

Then take her out for a really nice meal on boxing day, using the budget of £50!

Win win!!!

 

[SavageHoutkop]

Gardening? A plant?

 

[SavageHoutkop]

http://www.onyabags.co.uk/
depending on her shopping habits.

 

[SavageHoutkop]

http://www.sigg-aluminium.co.uk/patterned-sigg/sigg-butterfly-night-0-6l.htm

or similar?

 

[Globalti]

£50 bag of herbal sedatives?

DB, you keep offering these, er, herbal sedatives. Do you think they would be strong enough to make her sleep right through Christmas? I can just forget presents and go and live at the pub then.

 

[SavageHoutkop]

or, any of the David Attenborough DVD / box sets