The errrrrrr older ones on here will probably relate to the question more, just spent the afternoon putting this little Xmas surprise together for one lucky little girl..............

I seem to remember a sock with a tangerine in it if I was lucky on the mantle piece.



bex xmas quad

It is wonderfull the things that the little ones can have now.

ME !!???

When I was young. I was lucky to get a mouldy old spud.
We used to live in a cardboard box in the bottom of a lake.

Ronnie

Ps. Great pressy

Lake? You were lucky to have a lake. There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road!

ahh she is a lucky lass.

kind a reminds me of this.

http://www.yearsofgold.org.uk/CapstickComesHome.mp3

Wheelies down the hallway a quick endie and through the lounge round the furniture and back.Could do timed sprints,,.excellent gift with not a hint of self !!! Lucky girl

When I was 14 I woke up on Christmas day and saw a big box, nicely wrapped. I ripped it open and found a set of china plates, cups etc etc.

My old dear said 'you didn't have much for Christmas, so I thought you'd enjoy opening it'

Gutted, bitter, me ? No never. It conditioned me for my wife to be, who like my mam, buys me shite presents

Yep, kinda always wish I was my dad. 20 years old and the government gave him a Spitfire to play with. Also a Hurricane, Defiant, Barracuda, Typhoon, Miles master, Tiger Moth, then he got offered a job as a test pilot with Dehaviland (mum talked him out of that one though).

Yes, but what will she look forward to? I didn't like not getting the bike I asked for at the time, but the tangerine and the chocolate was all right in the end, especially since my 4 brothers and sisters didn't exactly get what they wanted either. And we could eat as much as we wanted, when the aunts, uncles and cousins came over!

Shoebox? You were lucky to have a shoebox!
There was 64 of crouched beneath the leaves of a dandelion flower on the edge of a cliff!

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Originally posted by Humbug
Lake? You were lucky to have a lake. There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road!

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This is what my nearly 3 year old will be opening on christmas morning. Its nearly as good as the wooden kart with pram wheels i made as a teenager. Maybe that was the start of my locost building? It was certainly built for under £250.... unlike the locost!



[Edited on 8/12/07 by andrew-theasby]

Hmmm Just noticed my avatar against this picture, hope she does better than me!

When I met her she'd only just gained control of the pram She'll be asking to drive the car by the age of 8!

I had a quad for christmas when I was 7... a Suzuki LT80. God did I have some fun on that thing :p Only sold it when my knees started hindering the steering

This year I've asked for a rally design coilover conversion kit with 225lb 8" springs... hope Santa knows what they are!

My 24 year old daughter is getting a 5 year old Fiat Punto for christmas, I was prepping it for Mot today - I seem to remember getting tangerines and the guinness book of records, funny how things change!

"Do I ever wish I was my Dad?". No - I'd be freezing in shorts!!

Steve

PS Nice prezzie but a bit OTT IMO.

Well, it certainly beats the lastest Simpsons book of Whatever it is that I always get, and am expecting from my mum, this xmas. And the endless socks. Although, since the wife keeps losing them all, that isn't such a bad thing anymore. Ho hum.