The Christmas present you always wanted, but never got

[beanzontoast]

For me it would be a Hornby goods train set. Never have owned one. My elder brother had a set (which I vaguely recall seeing running when it was new, but wasn't allowed to touch as I was too young) which ended up broken and maybe this put my parents off! I ended up with other great things instead - Meccano one year, and a shared Scalextric the next - but sometimes in town, when passing a model shop with trains on display, I still wonder what it would have been like.

I was pretty rough on my toys too though - so maybe it was for the best. You can't really crash a train into a pile of plastic bales like you can a Ford Escort!

 

[Sittingduck]

Mr Frosty & Tin Can Alley

 

[Flying_Monkey]

A pair of purple skis - my dad promised me I would get them, but we left Norway before Christmas...

 

[dellzeqq]

Scalextric. And, after some (ahem) 40 years of waiting, I finally got one from the kids

 

[Mr Pig]

For me it would be a Hornby goods train set.

Buy one then.

I used to know a woman who'd always wanted a train set, but being a girl never got one. She was about forty, had her own kids etc, but went out and bought a Hornby Flying Scotsman train set. Every now and then she'd take it out and run, and no one else in the house was allowed to touch it ;0)

You can get a decent sized Hornby set for about £40 these days.

 

[rich p]

scalextric and meccano since you mention it

 

[TVC]

Buy one then.

I used to know a woman who'd always wanted a train set, but being a girl never got one. She was about forty, had her own kids etc, but went out and bought a Hornby Flying Scotsman train set. Every now and then she'd take it out and run, and no one else in the house was allowed to touch it.

I can trump that, for this Christmas I've bought Mrs Curtain a driving lesson - on a real mainline steam loco at the Great Central Railway. Now that's a train set.

BTW please don't tell her, it's a surprise

 

[buggi]

An Aston Martin!!!!!

and... a string puppet

 

[buggi]

I can trump that, for this Christmas I've bought Mrs Curtain a driving lesson - on a real mainline steam loco at the Great Central Railway. Now that's a train set.

BTW please don't tell her, it's a surprise

wow!

i would quite like someone to pay for me to go see the polar bears.

 

[TVC]

I forgot, I always wanted a remote control car. That was in the days when you only got those proper Tamiya jobs for a couple of hundred quid.

 

[numbnuts]

I always wanted a train set, never got one
...until I worked for British Rail

 

[Willow]

A tiny tears

 

[Cathryn]

I can trump that, for this Christmas I've bought Mrs Curtain a driving lesson - on a real mainline steam loco at the Great Central Railway. Now that's a train set.

BTW please don't tell her, it's a surprise

That's an amazing present. The husband bought me a day driving diggers for our wedding anniversary. It was fab. Good thinking, Velvet Curtain!

Personally...I never got a pony.

 

[TVC]

That's an amazing present. The husband bought me a day driving diggers for our wedding anniversary. It was fab. Good thinking, Velvet Curtain!

Personally...I never got a pony.

Where do I sign up?

Actually if someone was to buy me one of these 'experience' days I think I'd like to go for a session at a falconry centre and learn how to fly birds of prey.

 

[longers]

I asked for a bmx a couple of years running and got told they weren't proper bikes and were only for playing on.

That was why I wanted one.

If I had got one I think I'd have kept A+E even busier than I did.