Best Gift Ever

[nailit]

whats the best gift that you have ever received (birthday xmas whatever)?
I think mine would have to be a flying lesson.

[Georgiesmum]

Only my children and my grandson, best presents ever!

[Hopkirk]

I still remember how happy I was at Christmas when I got a scooter.

(Not Christmas just gone!)

[rockyracoon]

My kids, hands down the best gift ever.

[andy-hughes]

When I was in hospital after a complete nervous breakdown, I was on a visit to the local town with my wife when we passed a man wearing a tee-shirt with the message 'Django Lives!' on it. Even in my drugged up and barely alive state, I stopped to ask him where he got it, and we had a conversation about Django Reinhardt.

My wife would not have had a clue who Django was, and despite the incredibly difficult times we were going through, she made a mental note about him, and for my birthday (by which time I had just been released from the residential psychiatric hospital) she bought me a boxed set of Django's music.

It's not so much the music, wonderful though that is, but the fact that my wife could remain so loving and thoughtful after the unbelievably hard time I put her through, and the music is a permanent reminder of that love, which I did not deserve, but needed, and was still alive because of it.

[gness]

Not really a gift to me...but the gift of a kidney to my husband by a complete stranger was a bit special and made such a difference to my life....☺

[Samuraisan]

My Kitchen Aid . How lame does this sound after reading previous posts.

[anneasquith]

my first grandchild. :)

[stuey]

Eons ago, when I was about 8 or 9, I got up one morning and found a large box besides my bed. I opened it to find a complete encyclopedia set...I was in Heaven! It wasn't Christmas or my birthday. I still remember that day, although I can't remember the name of the set.

[queenofmean]

To me the best gift was life....the nurse that noticed I was ill as a 3 day old bub and the person who gave up some of their time to donate blood which I received

[Jackdaw33]

It wasn't Odham's , was it? I had one of their encyclopaedias for youngsters.

[tonyav]

I also had a set of encyclopedias has a child, I know it wasn't Britannica but I can't for the life of me remember the name of the set I had.

[Prudie]

I feel now I can't answer with actual presents but I will and it's a toss up between two for the pleasure factor. A dollshouse with real working lights that I woke to one Xmas and a surprise holiday to Antigua when I didn't even know where I was going until I got given my BA boarding pass at Gatwick.

[nailit]

Andy,
//When I was in hospital after a complete nervous breakdown,//
Wasnt the Harplands was it (I know your from stoke)
I will forever be grateful to them for their help.

[stuey]

You know, I think it was Odhams, now that you mentioned it!

[tonyav]

Just found this on Ebay. Looks like mine was Odhams, I remember the cover.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-Vintage-HARDBACK-Book-THE-MODERN-ENCYCLOPEDIA-FOR-CHILDREN-Odhams-Press-/291388718900

[Captain2]

According to the blurb at the bottom there Tony, it's in french - were you very advanced for your age?

[Jackdaw33]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/odhams-encyclopedia

This the one?

[vulcan42]

re the encyclopaedias, I had a set of Arthur Mee's Children's encyclopedia, which were quite famous in their time.
http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/797/1118797_110803115555_394.JPG

[stuey]

Well, if all Odhams editions were red (not read), mine wasn't Odhams. I vaguely remember them being a grayish color and perhaps having an embossed design on them.

[PankySmooch]

A kiss from a woman after a first date basically to say she'd like to see me again, that was about 25 years ago and we've been together ever since :o)