what Xmas gift do you buy for your Dad?

[dellzeqq]

well, what a collection of miserable old git presents! Buy the old codger the biggest, loudest firework you can afford. Take the old boy out in to the garden, the park, the street at midnight on Christmas Eve and let it off. Then toast your success by doing moonies at the moon.

 

[MossCommuter]

nice and peaty but a little sweet and vanilla-ey.

Fess up; if you know this then what you have there is a collection of whisky bottles.

 

[Col5632]

I too am struggling what to get my dad, he works 24/7, doesnt like football, never goes out and he already has all the bike stuff he needs

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Seldom Scene (Bluegrass music) CD

Now they're first rate, John Starling's solo stuff is superb as is his collaboration with Carl Jackson (Spring Training) - if your dad like SS he'll like those too.

 

[derrick]

Can you get a lap dance for £40.

 

[accountantpete]

I've got a copy of that. But you can't have it! Lucky to have found a copy Pete, they're pretty scarce, only 500 of them printed at the time IIRC. You can get 'To the Kwai and Back' which has a lot of them. Was your dad out there?

He's got the Kwai and Back book and has been trying to get a copy of Forty Pictures from the Library - of course these days the managers take one look at the content and bin the things

He turned 18 in 1944 and was posted to Burma - by the time they arrived and got through basic training it was, thankfully, pretty much all over.

 

[Sandra6]

I alternate between buying my dad Bassetts liquorice allsorts and terry's chocolate orange with the occasional box of thornton's special toffee thrown into the mix. I'm lucky he's easily pleased.

 

[Basil.B]

Now they're first rate, John Starling's solo stuff is superb as is his collaboration with Carl Jackson (Spring Training) - if your dad like SS he'll like those too.

Cool, will check these out.
I thought I had better get the old codger something else too, ta!

 

[Night Train]

My Dads just bought and original Volvo C70 convertible as a summer toy, so I bought him a big die cast model of one for his desk

I thought about getting a die-cast model of every car my Dad had ever owned. I still haven't found all of them, some are probably just not available. If they were I would start buying them.
I might also do the same for every car I ever owned.


I asked Dad what he wanted earlier today. He said 'Nothing.', so that's easy then!

 

[Arch]

If he is anything like my Dad then I wouldn't bother.
While clearing out the box room of all his junk, so I could turn it into a guest room, I found presents that have been unwrapped but never opened.

I am as stumped as you are as to what to get Dad this year.

Easy. Recycle one of the ones you've just rediscovered!

 

[DCLane]

I thought about getting a die-cast model of every car my Dad had ever owned. I still haven't found all of them, some are probably just not available. If they were I would start buying them.

I like that idea - and I'd not got him anything yet either!