I need some help with ideas - Silver Wedding!

Mags · 25-02-2009, 01:30 PM

How about arranging another hot air balloon trip for him Angie?

dinahsmum · 25-02-2009, 01:32 PM

Do you think he would like a telescope Angie? (A big, fixed one, for looking at the sky)
I'm toying with that for my OHs zero birthday in the summer.
Men! They're not so easy to find gifts for, are they?

mattde · 25-02-2009, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by angieh

Thanks for that idea Matt - always like to get ideas for presents from other chaps. Unfortunately OH wouldn't fit in a glider - he's 6ft 6ins tall and of large build!

no probs, big bloke deserves a big kite

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sounds bizarre but they are loads of fun, like being a kid again. fun for all the family.

I have this kite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0rcqH6UiY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oETUgDEWeVg

If you have some nice open fields near by then its perfect to fly it in. Its not hard to fly as well. Pick it up in 5mins.

Good excuse to get out on windy days.

If he's not the type and prefers his gadgets then the new Nintendo DSi comes out in April.

meep · 25-02-2009, 02:08 PM

All great suggestions, especially the pendulum clock and kite!

I personally would say a good 'piece' like the clock or kite, of good value that will last and last. If he likes exploring heritage, and therefore the past, perhaps an antique piece?

meep · 25-02-2009, 02:09 PM

If not a pendulum clock, a pocket watch perhaps? (again antique.)

yola · 25-02-2009, 02:19 PM

What about a membership of the National Trust or similar? Can spend weekends messing around in stately homes and their grounds!

Or a Tiger Moth flight if a glider is a no-go? I did that for OH a few years ago and he was (pardon the pun) blown away!

A day in a racing car? A hospitality trip (with champers etc) to GoodWood Festival if Speed? Most blokes are petrolheads to some extent . . . even I loved my GFOS outings

mattde · 25-02-2009, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by yola

What about a membership of the National Trust or similar? Can spend weekends messing around in stately homes and their grounds!

Or a Tiger Moth flight if a glider is a no-go? I did that for OH a few years ago and he was (pardon the pun) blown away!

A day in a racing car? A hospitality trip (with champers etc) to GoodWood Festival if Speed? Most blokes are petrolheads to some extent . . . even I loved my GFOS outings

I agree Goodwood Festival of Speed is very good day out. I went last year and will be going this year.

angieh · 25-02-2009, 03:11 PM

Yes, Festival of Speed is a good idea. We have been once before, but we both enjoyed it.

A Tiger Moth? Now that sounds very good .... I'll see if I can track that.

We are both members of National Trust - have been for over twenty-five years. If I remember correctly, we joined during the same week we got engaged. In Cumbria, pouring rain ........ got "nabbed" by a friendly and very wet chap in a car park. Been members ever since.

Should have said: Thanks for all the suggestions - keep them coming!

yola · 25-02-2009, 03:19 PM

Yup - we went several times in the pre-children days . . . there's nothing like the rumble of a seriously-powerful racing car to get the pulse racing.

Seriously toying with it for this year as the littlies are not quite so little any more

angieh · 25-02-2009, 03:47 PM

We both did the rally driving at Silverstone some years ago - bought for each other at Christmas. That was wonderful, rally enjoyed it. The instructors were excellent. I was pants!

Sorry, did not intend the pun!

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