money is pretty tight this year ( No season ticket for me) so we did not buy any presents for adults just spent the usual on the kids.

Me and the wife had a £30 budget so i got a pair of thick welly socks for when walking the woof, some nice shaving gel and moisturiser, a good book Christian Camerons Marathon and 4 beers from the new micro brewery which has opened up down the road.

I bought Emma an incubator for the dragons' eggs and she got me an Ermenegildo Zegna Troffeo suit (brand new £15 from a charity shop)

We got each other a 2 week cruise to South East Asia, stopping at Singapore, Thailand, 3 stops in Vietnam and Hong Kong. This was an early Xmas pressie, we got back home on Xmas Eve....

Very nice.
Did you take your Saints wooly hat?

No, ever so slightly too hot.

Lump of cash towards my next tattoo, new plug for one of my piercings, books, choccy, biscuits... and a tin of hot dog sasages

Yummy.



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I know.

But then I eat a lot of other too.

If I'm supposed to be impressed or worried then I'm not, something is going to kill me someday.

That's two of us then.


I shouldn't really criticise your hot dog fetish seeing as I'm a big doner kebab man after a few sherberts.

Four million shoppers at the Boxing Day sales apparently.
Fooking mentalists.

?

Nothing to be worried about with mechanically recovered meat, according to the same article (linked above) ...



Its protein, it all looks like sludge when it gets into your gut.


Anyway thats for the food thread, what did I get for christmas ?

A moleskine recipe notebook (bought it myself)
A hoodie (bought it myself)
Two t-shirts (bought them myself)

And, erm, thats it, I'm practicing for the day when I become a hermit.

Was in the pub yesterday and asked my mates lad what his dad had got him for Xmas.

'Four cans of Stongbow' says Wes, 'but my fooking dad had two of them'.

It made me laugh.

Northern Diver Arctic undersuit in anticipation of some frozen lakes
Dive torch
Rovers away shirt
Rover coat
Lovely watch
Season pass

Choccies

Did well this year

Did your lass manage to fit [isome frozen lakes[/i under your Christmas tree?

If only, save the travel.

The Brevere Rd postman got some jellied sweets because he's a miserable !

You need to be a 21st century man, kind, considerate, listen to her (especially in Next when she asked 'which one') and let her know every day how much you love her, then you will get some nice pressies. Don't let the wife find out though

Well she got me a Hull FC padded jacket.
I'll be popular when I walk in Shakespeare with it on this afty.

With taste like yours, a padded cell might have been more appropriate

Telescope, pair of gloves (x 2) (one, too small), jumper (too small), socks, trousers, 3 x books, fancy "perfume" (first ever in 50+ years).

New shirt, New watch and the usual boxers and socks.

nowt - sad innit ?

Usually prefer it that way then you don't have to send owt.

Some people clearly didn't get a life for Xmas.

Selfridges, Manchester, approx 7.30am.

Off at a tangent: There seems to be something of a current fad for food based tattoos, there is a girl in my local HMV who's shoulders and upper arms are covered in pictures of muffins, I've seen photos of someone with a picture of a roast dinner on their stomach, and two girls at work have sweets in wrappers tattooed up their arms.

Strange..


Mind you, I'm turning my upper arm into a graffittied wall, so I suppose I can't talk.