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Just putting together a hamper of stuff for her and she likes a good lady fiction but want to avoid the usual authors.
ps..would a ped egg be ok as a gift?
What exactly is "ladyfiction"? The Story of O?
Chick-lit.
Might be useful if you named a few of her favourite authors or books. Are we talking Jilly Cooper or Iris Murdoch here? "Fiction" is quite a large category, and adding "lady" on the front doesn't really narrow it down that much...
WTF is a ped egg?
Going out on a limb,
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poison-Study-Book-Trilogy-MIRA/dp/0778301923 ]Poison Study[/url] is a belter. It's pitched as 'young adult' fiction but don't let that put you off, it just means it's not too heavy (plenty of adults read Harry Potter after all. It's a female protagonist which is why I'm suggesting it as chickfic(*). I thought it was an entertaining tale and well written, and the first of a trilogy if you're so inclined.
(* - (tm) me, which I just made up)
sort of a thing about a woman after a chap who doesn't really like her at first then she travels the world and gets a reet good job then she finds herself and he suddenly realises he loves her...n that.
WTF is a ped egg?
Bit like ben-wa balls, I think.
sort of a thing about a woman after a chap who doesn't really like her at first then she travels the world and gets a reet good job then she finds herself and he suddenly realises he loves her...n that.
In that case, I'd like to +1 my own suggestion. (-:
she likes the traditional ones, maeve binchy etc. She tried the eats lies and cries or something recently, the one that julia roberts made into a film.
No point me suggesting martina cole stuff then?
martina cole....give me some titles to look at please?
If she hasn't already read it then try One Day by David Nicholls - seems to roughly follow your description and is equally readable by men. Currently in most top 10 fiction charts too so you should be able to get it cheap!
Edit: P.S. If I got Mrs R a ped egg for her birthday I'd probably find it shoved up an orifice it doesn't really fit in. 😯
cheers rio...will rethink the ped egg.
😯
A ped egg for a present?!
Jesus mammory rogering christ, don't do it! (or if you do, make sure you buy her an iron and a hoover as well to complete the effect).
As for chick-lit suggestions, that confessions of a shopohilic by sophie kinsella seems to go down a treat usually...
One Day by DAvid Nicholls is good. If she likes Chick Lit however about something by Dorothy Koomson.
I just read Poison Tree by Erin Kelly which I thought was brilliant and I'm not normally into Chick Lit although it does have a slightly different ending.
Or Santa Montefiore "Meet me under the ombu tree" only love story I ever loved and I'm desperate to go to Argentina now!! 😉
LEt us know what you buy in the end.
The know, faces, the graft. They are very violent, dark etc. Perhaps Lesley Pearse? never look back, remember me and faith were my favourites and nice girly stories of hardship but a happy ending kinda thing.
Just thought about the Jodi Picoult novels, Salem Falls was my favourite but not quite proper chick lit more like chick lit thriller ... mm well not really. Don't know how to describe them.
OOO just remembered "My Sisters Keeper" by Jodi Picoult one of THE best chick lits I've read and enjoyed.
Never read any Martina Cole or Lesley Pearse I may jsut take a look for a change.
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Any jack reacher book,as author lee child says,men want to be him,women want him!
If she does not enjoy Reacher you will!
Annie Proulx?
LOL @ RedThunder.. that'll be for a different thread then!??
MC I read my sisters keeper and didn't finish it in the end because it just didn't grab me, what's her other stuff like? Is it just more of the same? Someone lent me the pact but really haven't got the interest to give it a go
This is great.....keep em coming all.
if you're doing a hamper - don't forget a small token bunch of flowers to go in it!
Secret History - Donna Tart
@munqechick
It was still on my clipboard 😉
Any other hamper ideas?
It's her 40th so need lots of ideas.
it can be bought [url= http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=24208 ]here[/url]
I can't reed and i cant right but i can drive a tractor.
HTH
Get her a collage style photo frame with a load of pics from your fav holidays/life moments/kids in it.
Stuff that you "make" will be that more special :]
Damn, I should start charging if I come up with any more 😛
OO secret history was quite good.
@ Emma82 some of her stuff is utter rubbish! The ones I enjoyed were Sister Keeper (which I thought was brilliant, ending was unbelieveable!) Salem Falls was very different (although still written in the same style). I can't remember The Pact (although I have read it). What other stuff have you read? OO keep these suggestions coming I LOVE BOOKS! And hopefully I'll get a Kindle in April for my birthday so I can fill it up with more new suggestions from here .
Photo idea, i like it. Perhaps a photobook.
Add that to the list.
Just thought of another one Audrey Niffeneger "The Time Travellers Wife" TBH first time I struggled and gave up at 100 pages but everyone kept telling me how good it was, 2nd time I LOVED IT! Her most recent books is good too, although COMPLETELY different.
my husband bought me a ped egg for xmas 2 yrs ago he only survived it because he also bought me ugg boots. Jane Green books are good.
mrs mudpup x
Wondered what the heck a ped egg was .. .just like an old fashioned pumice stone then!? OOOO no don't be buying her one of those!
What do you have in the hamper so far?
Some nice underwear? Some new silver earrings, bottle of something she drinks (small bottle of gin, tia maria or whatever). CUDDLY TOY it's like a Brucie game show now 😉 Have you got her a cake? If not a mini cake for comedy value. What else does she like/have interests/hobbies in? Voucher for something like theatre/weekend away? Depends on how much you want to spend?
You should see her heels!
Even as a joke pressie?
God, mum gave me all the jilly coopers, whizzed through riders which I loved. Just started the next one. Have you ever read penny vincenzi? Have read a few of hers and they have all been excellent, especially the ones about the lytton family were great, three books following the family and their goings on over years and years. Really really good 🙂
Don't buy the ped egg dude, she'll kill you. How about an RC helicopter? Us girls go crazy for them 🙂 lol
Not even as a joke pressie - it still wouldn't go down too well i'd imagine! Unless of course, your missus has a bloody good sense of humour :]
So far, the list is.
Night away in a nice hotel in Harrogate (afternoon tea at bettys and great french restaurant for evening meal)
Booked in to Turkish baths the following morning for a spa session (trunks to worn!)
Perfume
Undies 😈
Cd
DVD
Book?????
Ped egg????
Photo book I now think
Jewellery, poss pandora thing to cover all future birthdays etc.
That's it so far.
what no bike?...
the turkish baths will do her heels.
Sounds good to me! You are missing a cuddly toy as mentioned before and choccies.
She doesnt do bikes.
It's my thing for my time.
She has read penny Vincenzo and I think it's that sort of genre I'm after.
Would a ped egg limited edition in pink be better???
Ok.
List to be updated with chocs n cuddly toy.
ooh ermm... Victoria Hislop - the island
PV books are brilliant, I really enjoyed them.
NO ped egg, not even pink.
Think I'll give the other Jodi Picoult books a miss then, haven't read much lately, when I get a few free days I can easily get through a book, especially when on holiday.
Umm what about concert/comedian tickets or something for summer time like bikini or something? Champagne.....?? It is her big 40!!
I think ped egg would be a good joke present or a whoopie cushion! although you know her sense of humour better than we do 😉 (at least I hope so).
I do like the photobook, or if you dont' think you'll look at it a pic on a canvas. For Xmas I got Mr MC a pic of him riding in Morocco put onto a canvas from Tesco so wasn't much and to be honest I was very impressedw ith the quality. Very easy to do online to upload pic and tinker with it.
Got any holidays planned? so nice funky new sunglasses??? I like the bikini idea (if she wears them). Comedian tickets good idea too!
Hey Emma why don't we just do the hamper for him .. although I would put the pink ped egg in for comedy value!
Ped egg?? Absolutely no idea what that is, and, frankly, a bit scared to google it in case it's like a magic egg...
Leaving ped eggs aside, I'm reading 'Treasure Island' for the first time in my life (I am ashamed to have not read it before...) and it is AWESOME!!! Best of all, it features a peg leg, which, if you're drunk, is pronounced the same as ped egg. Get her that.
I call that win-win.
good plan MC, I like the sunglasses idea but might be hard to chose a good pair for someone else - especially a woman! I love this sort of thing - I like buying for hubby to be at Christmas but I tend to go a bit mad!
Just one last teeny thought - anne summers? I will say nothing else but that may go down better than a ped egg (which coincidentally I had to google initially as I thought it might be something that came from Anne Summers) 😯
Bikini for the summer?
We are going to centreparcs at sherwood so not sure it would get used.
Lol at peg leg and mrs r asking what I am up to!
Sunglasses are a bit subjective aren't they?
Really need to try them on so surprise is gone.
Emma don't worry I thought the ped egg was either something from Anne Summers or more honestly I thought it was similar to a She wee (eurhg do girls actually use those things? Anyway that's a whole different thread). For the purposes of DandelionandMurdoch a ped egg is basically a pumice stone, bit of rough stone to rub the rough/tough skin off your feet don't worry your wife won't think you're weird if you google it and you wont' lose your job either. I had to use the wonder of google.
I know what you mean about sunglasses but you can give it a go and keep recipt so she can always swap and pick her own. what about a new watch? doesn't have to be crazy expensive? there is some nice stuff out there.
Is she outdoorsy? If not into biking? Down gilet .. I love anything down so that would be a winner with me.
Is the hamper full yet? as I REALLY must get to bed since I have to be up at 0630 ......
On the Anne summers topic. Are we talking "clothes" or "toys"
Not sure either would be as much use as a ped egg, we've got three kids!!!
But if you have been with Mrs RockHopper a while do you know what shae she likes? Okay bikini out .. right racking brain to think of replacement ideas 😉
New handbag? Nice new leather wallet? Again possibly difficult to buy (well the handbag could be).
You have your mind set on the ped egg... go on I think it'd be great to havea joke present in there ... as long as you think she'll appreciate it!! but I suppose if she doesnt' you can always show her this STW thread and blame it on me!
Not full yet, more stocking fillers to find.
Thanks for the female input on this so far.
Toys! I'm going to bed now!!!
PMSL @ Emma
okay stocking fillers .... I think I'm going to go to bed and will sleep on it! I'll post in the morning .. hopefully with something inspirational. but whilst I'm gone give us a few clues as to her interests/hobbies (I know you'll probably say none with 3 kids!).
We "wandered" into ragley handbag shop for a look around as I had been pointed in that direction already. She wasn't impressed with them so that would be a big risk gift.
Yes...none really as my work means I am out early and back late ish so I am looking for, I'm afraid to say, girlie nice things for her.
Looking forward to the updates in the morning!
Not a fan of Radley but Hi Design do some nice stuff although again it depends on what she likes. I hate ANY bag that I have to hold it has to be a cross over strap so my handsa re free and not silly big.
Anyway I'm REALLY off to bed now.
Ok, how much money have you got? What about some GHDs? I love mine, don't use them all the time but I would die for them I think! You could also get a really nice hairbrush set off the GHD site while you are there and a load of hair care products?? That's going to set you back about £250 I'd think but would be nice stuff to open. Or, seeing as it's her 40th how about a session with a photographer? Gets her hair/make up etc done then some photos taken? You'd have to google that though as I have no information on them. Also, nice moisturisers (not Sainsburys own cack)? Probably get something good from boots, ask the girls in there. If she's into really girlie girl stuff have a look at kath kidston stuff. I'm not massively girlie but still like her bits an pieces. What about an eternity ring, still a few sales around so you could get something good? I am now officially out of ideas. Good luck!!
I had a few as stocking fillers ... smelly candles, does she like baths? If so some posh bath salts/bubble bath and how about some nice new super soft pyjamas and a dressing gown ..m mmmm
i'm officially out of ideas too .
The question is did you purchase the exclusive pink ped egg last night?
the Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The time travellers wife - Audrey Nifenegger (?)
For a stocking filler, I bought my wife Stardust by Neil Gaiman as she liked the film.
It seemed to go down well.
Although she seems to be obsessed with Cath Kidston stuff at the moment, so you could try that.
No to the ped egg, it won't help if she has really bad heels (she needs a belt sander). Of course you could get udderly smooth for feet (not in the hamper though).
I was given an electric shaver once by a b/f (not MrPP) - he might as well have attached a tag saying here you go hairy, merry christmas
You are of course missing the champagne, chocolates. Good books every one seems to be raving about the Girl with the dragon tattoo (it's a trilogy and all three are out now).
Don't forget the cake and balloons.
Peg egg bought.
Lots of other stuff to buy now tho to counter the flak I may?? get for doing so.
When is her birthday? You haver to tell us if she appreciated the joke!!
+1 MrsPoddy
My missus has just read the Millennium Trilogy books by Stieg Larsson
Very good apparently -all three!
Early march. Just arranging for a custom scarf to be knitted in her fave colours. How thoughtful.
just to update any other potential gift list searchers, the ped egg was a hit and Mrs R said that the day before her birthday she was actually toying with buying one!!!!!
And in the Turkish Baths in Harrogate this morning she said she wished she had it with her in the hot room!
Not sure that would be too pleasent for other visitors as the shavings don't seem to be caught as expected!!!!!