Saturday 27 December 2014

So what did you get for Christmas, then?


As per my earlier post about the difficulty of buying Christmas presents (HERE) I finally managed to think of things to get for my family and in-laws ~ my father was very pleased with his cashmere scarf, even though I went to about six shops that only sold them in blue, red, garish stripes or ... grey.  Sorry, Daddy, I did try to find one in Dad-ish green or brown but, alas, the store buyers decided that no-one should like those colours this year!

My favourite present was a fab rock chick bracelet from my sister: 


For the discerning Aerosmith lover!  Here's the website if you'd like to have a look for yourself: Twin Rocker Gems.

I also loved my black leather gloves from one of my sisters in law, and my bathroom now smells of strawberries, courtesy of some Body Shop stuff from the other one!  In fact, the strawberries are vying for pole smell position with the L'heure Bleue I got from my father ...


... at least, he said "What do you want for Christmas?" and I said "I'm running low on perfume", so he said, "how much is it, I'll put the money in your bank account,"  and then I ordered it from Amazon, so it's more or less from him, anyway!

Talking of things that smell nice, my husband now has enough shower gel, stuff that you spray on all over, after shave and post shave balm, etc, to last him until about 2017.  He's still using some of the stuff he got last Christmas.  Still, at least it saves buying anything of that type, like, ever again.  I've got shower gel and body lotion and curious preparations called 'body butter' and 'body polish' (???), too, yet no bubble bath.  Don't any of these gift packs include nice bubbles to lie in, anymore?  Do the makers think we're all too busy to lie in the bath?  I've also got lots of those netty type scrunched up things that come with every bath product gift set.  What are you supposed to do with them?  I always leave them hanging about in the bathroom for a few months until they inch themselves into that place in the airing cupboard from which nothing ever reappears.  

Oh, and whatever happened to bath cubes?  Remember them?  Blocks of solid stuff smelling of lavender that never properly dissolved, so you'd find little lumps of them in the bath when you pulled the plug out.  (One of Dad's socks filled with tangerines, nuts and bath cubes.  Nostalge, nostalge).

I won't mention all the chocolates.  The Thorntons, the Lindt, the Heroes...  I'm trying to pretend they're not there (not very successfully, it has to be said). 

I wonder if anyone can beat this present for novelty?  My sister's chap, who is called John Morgan, got a wonderful present (or set of them) from his brother.  John Morgan being a very usual sort of name, his brother, Richard, took it upon himself to find every book and CD he could find by other John Morgans.  Here is John with some of his presents - I like 'The Killer's Manual'!


 Best of all, his brother discovered a 1970s type gents' outfitter, and obtained a Harris Tweed jacket, 'made especially for John Morgan'.  I love this, what a brilliant idea!!



Anyway, I hope you all had a wonderful time with your loved ones.  Now, I must go and take a bath.  I shall be having approximately four per day from now until April, in an effort to get through all that shower gel.  That's if I can fight my way past the boxes of chocolates.....














17 comments:

  1. I have never known what those netty things in the bath sets are supposed to be used for. And I gather from what you said earlier that you don't have to pretend there aren't any chocolates in your house because there really aren't any more - you've eaten them, har har!

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    1. I actually took one in the bath with me yesterday and still couldn't work it out. I would like you to know that I have just had 4 chocolates for breakfast. It's better than the 7 yesterday. Harrrrrr!!!

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  2. Nice post. Enjoy your bath. Chocolates, though?

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  3. Surely 'discerning Aerosmith lover' is a tautology?!

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  4. Fab post Terry - I love the John Morgan stuff, what an inspired idea that was! I got bath oil this year and having a bath is now like dicing with death - I have gone up in the air twice as the bath was so slippery. Those bath cubes were hideous but they seemed so sophisticated at the time :D

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    1. Yes, I want a friend with a really ordinary name so I can do it too! Bath oils, now there's a thing! Is it very posh?

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    2. Don't know if it's posh but it's definitely lethal :D

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  5. Love the bracelet

    www.mydailywear.co.uk

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  6. Loads more great ones on the site, Izabela - thanks for looking at my blog!

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  7. Love the bracelet! And what was it with those bath cubes? (We did use the bath-bombs from Lush in our hot tub back in the States, and they were fabulous!)

    My own family is obscenely-ginormous (I have 9 brothers & sisters) so we draw names for presents. The overachiever sister who got our name this year has three kids at home PLUS a full-time exec job, but she still made me fused glass earrings and necklace, plus a little paperweight. And homemade chocolate truffles. In homemade boxes decorated with hand-marbled paper. That matched the handmade card. So thanks, Sis. Way to make me feel inadequate for the glam-camping gift cert I sent the brother whose name I got...

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    1. Oh God yes, don't people like tha tmake you feel SOOOOO guilty???!!! I never have known was glamping is. Is it still putting on your make-up even when you're in a tent?

      The bracelet rocks so much! Any Aerosmith orientated jewellery works for me, especially when it's also the name of one of my books :)

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  9. That's funny about the shower gel. Every year, until he was an adult, my middle son bought my husband soap-on-a-rope for Christmas. This year I got books! I made a list and gave it to my husband, thinking he'd get me what he could find, and he got them all!

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    1. Soap on a rope!!!!! Ha ha, I remember my dad getting that in the 70s! As for the books - how wonderful!

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  10. Those net poufs are awesome! Just squeeze on some body wash and lather up.

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    1. Thank you, Pamela, I promise I shall try it later today!!!! :D

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