What Was Your Best Christmas Present?

[Bobbisox1]

When you were small or now

[DTCwordfan]

A Norman, as in Will the Conk, kid's body armour, helmet and broadsword.....! I think I was seven at the time...so the Xmas of 1962, the year before the memorable freeze-in of 1963 and that event I remember so well....

[Bobbisox1]

Arh me too DT

[bednobs]

an illuminated globe

[Mamyalynne]

A Doll's House my Dad made for me.

[sherrardk]

Lovely boy #1 has already given me my present this year - it’s the Lego fishing shack (I have lusted after it since the first time I saw it).

[Bobbisox1]

Mine was a pink organza treasure cot and a black doll I called Susie

[DTCwordfan]

Still got it, Mamya - even if in the attic?

[Mamyalynne]

Sadly not DT, it got passed on to a young cousin.

[chrissa1]

Wendy. My walking doll. 1958.

[LadyCG]

All my Lego, my Barbie Car and my Barbie Four Poster Bed.

[Bobbisox1]

Chrissa, those were the dolls you ‘made’ them walk by putting one foot in front of another :0

I hope you’ll get to see your twins this Christmas ?

[jazzyjen]

My Dad made me a dolls house that was a replica of the house we lived in at the time. A couple of years later when we moved, he insisted it should stay with the house instead of coming with us! I was mortified.

[Bobbisox1]

I hope the new people kept it jazzy

[pat2604]

My husband!

[rowanwitch]

My first electric sewing machine, a first Christmas gift from my first husband. Over the 40 years have had it it paid for itself many many times over. I was really sad when it finally gave up the ghost

[pat2604]

Although it was the week after Christmas.

[jazzyjen]

Bobbi it was a long time ago and that house has now been completely reformed into a totally different property so the model would no longer match even if they did keep it.

[Bobbisox1]

Maybe in the loft?

[Buenchico]

I find it hard to separate Christmas presents from birthday presents in my mind, so I'm struggling a bit here. However the following (which were definitely all Christmas presents) come to mind:

1. The pet rock my mother gave to me when I was 22. Her choice of present showed that she was 'really on my wavelength' when it came to my daft sense of humour. (Alas, it got thrown out many years ago).

2. The table lamp that the three young boys who lived next door to my parents gave me in 1974 or 1975. They were very apologetic that they'd only been able to afford the base bit, and not a shade as well, but it was all they could manage from their combined savings. I was totally delighted with their kind gesture and I've still got the lamp (with a shade added to it, of course) in my living room now.

3. The 'old man' money box that three of the girls in my class gave to me in 1989. They were worried that I'd be offended by it but, again, I was utterly charmed. I can see it from where I'm sitting now.

[david small]

A wooden toy fort with drawbridge.