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What’s the best present you’ve received today? Or Infact that you’ve given?
Think mine would be a pair of 5 10 Maltese falcons or fifa 18 for the PS4 which will help occupy me during my knee recovery.
Merry Christmas everyone
Some Pink Slime Balls (97a, 54mm) from my girls 8)
I got an Airshot! Yessss!
Also a custom stem cap with their own drawings on from each daughter and a Salsa one from my wife 🙂
The stems caps sound pretty cool and a good idea.
Uplift day at antur stiniog
MKS NJS chain tugs and 4 + 5mm Beta t-handle hex keys. Nothing too fancy, just really nice kit that works.
Bestest? A Cosmo robot thingymebob, love it.
Not so bestest, War and peace novel.
I got a vacuum cleaner.
Welcome to being divorced.
No **** of a father in law though
Only thing in my room that wasn't here last night is a cockroach.
Tickets for Blue Planet at The Albert Hall, awesome.
Either the BPW voucher or the Minion DHR 29x3 (obviously not to use on the uplift at BPW)
Track bike. Amazing.
Got next to nothing as that's what we agreed, fine with that. Kids happily building Lego right now, Future Islands on the stereo, lovely.
And I just cracked and ordered the Lepin Brick Bank for £50 off Aliexpress. Ah well, it is Christmas. Just hope the quality is as good as I've heard!
Bottle of Jack Daniels. Better than the Chivas Regal last year - too smokey for me
Unicycle from my Dad. Complete random suprise present. No idea why he bought it but I see a trip to a&e in my near future 😆
Ben Cathro training voucher, Sproston Green t shirt and an Irish rugby top to name but a few. Fandabbydozee.
Hotpogs, it's the stw way
Another year of STW subs 🙂
New Ion knee pads from parents, a Manfrotto tripod from myself and a Bandcamp voucher from my brother
Two bottles of whisky. Might drink them to help the day pass.
A blowie.
leffeboy - Member
Hotpogs, it's the stw way
Got some for the wife as an extra gift. She was less impressed.
I got the Monk box set.
Bottle of 10yr old Ardbeg 8)
Not quite the fancy stuff I'd tried in the shop but can't blame my wife for not being able to distinguish between all the different gaelic variants 😕
Oh, and an unbelievably happy, gurgly 4 month old who went to sleep without his usual meltdown, and a smitten new granny getting to know him for the first time 8)
Voucher for a wildlife watching / photography trip. Looking for eagles, deer, seals, otters etc.
A large pressie has mysteriously appeared under our tree while I was in the kitchen tidying up. Kids have opened all of their pressies.
I hope this one is for me.
I hope it's Lego.
Random = A good quality frying pan
Best = A Google home mini. Not sure why I need or whether I actually want one but it'll do for streaming music in the workshop and I'm quite partial to a gadget.
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Pack of Alden wrenches - awesome pressie!
Maxxis Calendar and some 661 knee pads! Woooooo!
LEGO Star Wars Y Wing:D
A new trigger for my .243, a pair of Meindl Dovre boots and a bottle of 10 yr old Ardbeg.
Garmin Vector 3s
Simple type of fellow here
A hope cup...
A pair of Xmas lounge joggy pants
And a bottle of 2013 chateau De rothchild..... [had a bottle of this ] beyond wonderful lasted 90 minutes
My best was a nice running tshirt. It didn't have much competition from my only other present which was a box of door handles.
One of these. Hope me bum likes it.. 🙂
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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes collection.
Some calligraphy stuff.
Some fabric to play with.
And a picture drawn by my 21yo artist niece of Geralt of Rivia.
Mrs got me metal bowl fire pit thing for the garden. Total surprise and just perfect.
Now I just need to build some garden furniture in time for spring
£80 cash from my parents, along with a Topeak chain tool. My BBB tyre setting tool is apparently still on a slow boat from China.
**** all from the Mrs.
(not a phrase often heard in these parts but) "Move over Tunnocks tea cakes" - I received a selection box of German Christmas market marshmallow cakes...
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Fuji XP120. Hopefully an end to ruining 'normal' compact cameras by taking them on walks and rides and getting shit in the lenses.
truing stand, road wheels are flexy or I need to lose a few stone 🙂
Chapter 3 base layer, got wife top cap with details of the half iron man she's doing next year which she was chuffed with.
£200 towards next summer's Alps trip 😀
5 pairs of Howies undercrackers.
2 X 250g boxes of coffee beans from the roasters in Witney
Southside Johnny lp
Springsteen book 'Like a Killer in the Sun'
Mrs happy with her gifts, and boy has his new headphones on so peace reigns. Time to crack open a beer.
Park Tool P-Handlel Hex Wrench set & some books - perfect.
a photobook diary of the first year of my son's life. brought a tear to my eye.
not so closely followed by (but still very much appreciated) a wilfa svart coffee grinder.
My only Xmas present this year is a membership of the Austrian alpine club and a week long mountaineering course in Glencoe. Super happy with that.
Out with partner our dogs on a wet windy walk, brilliant. Just thankful to be out there.
Nice single malt was good also.
Rubik's Cube in my stocking. Can't put it down.
“Daylight” alarm clock from my Wife and the 2023 Trilogy book by the JAMS from my folks.
On the flip side my Wife’s present backfired with a look of disgust that came when she realised how much I’d spent on it (iPad), hmmm.
A voucher for a walk with alpacas, yay can’t wait 🙂
A New Scientist magazine which my son said he chose. I usually get NS as an xmas present anyway, but wasn't expecting anything at all this year as I'm splitting with the kids' mum (still all living in the same house at the moment, but I now have plans on where I'm moving out to and it's almost certainly the last) and the kids are still a bit small to get anything on their own initiative. Mainly feeling glad I got their mum something (just a box of chocs and some books) as I wasn't sure of the protocol at this point.
Tamiya Grasshopper - hurrah! And yes I know there are probably better things available nowadays but that would be to miss the point! 😀
A bottle of Whitley Neil gin.
beamers - Member
A large pressie has mysteriously appeared under our tree while I was in the kitchen tidying up. Kids have opened all of their pressies.
I hope this one is for me.
I hope it's Lego.
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A very unexpected present of a pair of socks, which was very pleasing. Seriously!
a nice bottle of highland park malt.
On the flip side my Wife’s present backfired with a look of disgust that came when she realised how much I’d spent on it (iPad), hmmm.
this is a concern i have ..... Mrs T-R is getting a pivot mach 5.7 with 150mm revs SLX 1x11 , light wheels , hope minis and a ks dropper..... (all used - im not made of money)
it could go either way .....its been in the planning since september - its hidden in plain sight in the garage but she gets it friday. The thing about my garage is that strange bikes dont look out of the ordinary as i often have other folks in getting fixed.
Most of the funds needed for my trip to the 24hr Euro Camps in Slovakia and some nice trainers off the wife.
Kids got my a new track pump and a spesh air blast thingy 
Stranger Things inspired T-shirt....
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A happy child.
Pianoteq standard, with Electric pianos, Hohner Collection, Steinway Model D.
All sorts of awesomeness! 🙂
Bruce Dickinson book, the Bike Exif calendar and a Guy Martin bobble hat.
I would have asked for peace on earth, but i'm blowing the faces of some rebel scum later so it would seem mildly hypocritical
Some new trainers as my other ones have holes in and I keep getting wet feet
Ticket to see Iron Maiden in 2018 closely followed by voucher for bungee off the Finneston crane.
Hope I get through 2018. Birthday gift the other month was a tandem skydive.....
Rubik's Cube in my stocking. Can't put it down.
Best prezzy I got last year. Took me about 4 weeks to figure out the first half but could get no further so I sunk to you tube and got the rest from there.
As for prezzies I got tickets for belle and Sebastian so pretty decent.
Happy family is the main thing. But I did get myself some of those Adidas terrex on offer, my folks gave me Fopp vouchers so I can see some Neil Young archive purchases in the offing and my better half got me the Bothy Bible so I might even dare to plan some bike trips.
Joint between a set of Wera Hex Plus hex keys and a Topeak Ratchet Rocket.
The rest was the usual chocolate selection and a few bits of clothing. Actually a really good Christmas day considering both my mum and dad are rather ill and I had to spend half the day with my uncle (who is a Daily Mail reading racist idiot most of the time) who behaved himself!
Happy kids!
I got some PS3 games, but I chose then myself and I've been having a mare getting GT6 installed.
Just had a nice day though, and the little uns were well happy with what they got so job done I'd say.
Being off and actually feeling stable 95% of the day.
Complete Calvin and Hobbes collection
AdamW wins the thread.
I got a pair of Mavic Crossmax Pro shorts. 8)
Smart turbo trainer, just did an hour of intervals and didn’t change gear once, terrific.
Drac - Moderator
Being off and actually feeling stable 95% of the day.
Bit hoarse lately?
Whoopee cushion. It's kept the kids entertained all day...
Just finished building after kids and wife gone to bed:
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A scuttlebug for my eleven month old... brilliant seeing her face as she whizzed along the floor 😀
The 5 quid disco bulb I got the wife, which transformed our Christmas morning into a rave with the kids.
Detectorists box set including series 3 and the Christmas special.
Great Christmas this year. Kids have been a dream, Mrs PE calm and on good form ans presents - a Lego Mercedesl Arcos truck (bloody brill), Silca Ti Torque tool and a COZMO robot thing.
The collected works of Poe. Woohoo!