Christmas Shopping

your blog made me smile penny! i often buy my own too!!

im so glad im not the only one who likes the pictures best!!

i could well be doing the same as you on christmas day [except children have grown up and will be away]

happy christmas!!

You've bought yourself the best presents you could have :o)
Merry Christmas !

I'm a bit like you Penny,but I seem to end up buying EVERYONE's presents, even my own. OH has the rather alarming habit of saying, round about 23rd December "What have we (meaning me) bought for Daughter/nephew/friends/yourself?" or even more alarming "What do you want for Christmas?" At least this way there are no nasty surprises or duplications.
All the best gardening is done inside your head! I have great and elaborate plans for new flowerbeds, patio, gazebo, raised beds, greenhouse, toolshed, rockery, garden furniture covers and planters. I shall spend the cold, dark days of January making the covers, and the slightly better days of February and March clearing out and beautifying the summerhouse. OH has his instructions regarding the structural stuff (!) but of course you can't mix cement or dig up lawns when it's frosty, so he has a little respite first!
You see, becoming a GoY has it's penalties. If I hadn't have found this site, I'd be content to jog along with my scruffy, parched garden. Now I have grand designs! Have fun.
Happy Christmas xxxx

Gattina those exact same words are said by my OH too!

:-))))) And lots of OHs worldwide, I expect!

You never said a truer word Gattina - I can't remember the last time my OH even went into a shop!!

does he shop online frybo???

My lovely OH is better than a lot of blokes, but his shopping skills don't match his goodwill. I remember my father taking my mother to do her shopping in Marks and Spencers, and standing outside, tapping his toe, staring at his watch, scowling and muttering, and that was only after about 6 or 7 minutes. Nothing would get him to go inside with her. Mobile 'phones and online shopping hadn't been invented then!

my dad was happy if he had a packet of peanuts to eat while mum did the shopping!!!

Daughter and I get infuriated with crowded shops getting even more snarled up with bored rogue males lolling around in the aisles. There should be dedicated husband and boyfriend parking areas set aside, preferably with Formula 1 or football videos to keep them amused.
(Oh dear, I've got to edit the preceding comment - it sounds awfully sexist, doesn't it?) I think it amounts to a contravention of the human rights act to make blokes go shopping when they have no interest in it at all.

the same has often occured to me! somewhere to park disinterested shoppers of either sex??

OH's big problem is lack of ideas. One year I said 'Surprise me' - I've never heard the last of it. And the truth is that I am also very picky. OH usually heads for the nearest antique/bric a brac shop, feeling on relatively safe ground there.

But the wrapping is even worse; as he himself acknowledges, everything he wraps ends up looking like a bag of sprouts. The only time we go shopping together is to buy major electrical appliances - and now my sons are getting older they go instead! OH is the run in-grab-pay-run out' type of shopper, I'm more the 'browse-browse some more- return to first item' type.

Perhaps two types of shops - those for shoppers with degrees in shopology, and shops for people who still haven't passed their GCSE in it?

i really dont like shopping but if i go it is on my own if i can possibly help it. i would buy washing machine type stuff on my own ~ he wouldnt even know how to use it so no good him coming to buy it.

LOL and total agreement on every front, Sticki and Pennylane! NEVER again will I say "Surprise me" It always does surprise me, and rarely in a good way.

i wouldnt dare say that but i dont think he could if he tried.

Aw, Bless. They mean so well, too......

possibly? sometimes i wonder?

if we go for christmas shopping he spends all the time looking for things for himself and yet he went out and bought daughter in law a lovely thing from one of the expensive soap and bath things type shop.

LOL!

Ouch! The only response to that is a hand knitted jumper - with a picture of the Smurfs on the front!

Sticki - OH definitely does not shop online - he doesn't even know how to switch the computer on! I've offered to teach him but he has declined. Maybe it's just as well as I wouldn't want him hogging my laptop when I want to use it.

Same here, Frybo. This laptop is supposed to belong to us both, but I get unreasonably jealous if OH uses it. He certainly wouldn't know where to begin with on-line shopping. He can scarcely book flights without help, and opens all sorts of rubbish which I would delete without looking at. It worries me.

thankfully we have a computer each, i would not be too happy if i couldnt get on here.

oh dear frybo, but you are better off keeping the computer to yourself.

Gattina - I recommend putting parental controls on your laptop - ha ha.

Good one, Frybo! I came upstairs just now to bring him a cuppa and to find out what he was up to, and found that he'd managed to get some awful standard screensaver up instead of my glorious garden pictures. "I didn't do anything - it just "Happened"' he said. It leaves me wondering what else "just happens" when I'm not there to keep an eye on things.