[tommytwotone]

Word, so did anyone get owt decent for Xmas then?

For me, highlights were:

• A fly framed pic of Brooklyn Bridge for my new crib (went to NYC on hols a few months back)
• The Viz swearing dictionary (Das Krapital) from the missus
• A NAS drive from my old man (though to be fair I bought it, he gave me the cash - I thought getting him to get the right one would be a mission)

Anyone else - or was it all woolly hats, thick socks and gloves?

[iain_cbr]

Fingerboard so I can snap my tendon pulleys at home, traditional crappy jumper, couple of cool dvd's and othe bits and bobs. I did get two scarves though!

[hairich]

1 a north face wash bag.its pretty cool.
2 50 pounnds of book tokens.very cool
3 my sis got me a log that goes in the garden that when its wet grows chant mushrooms all year.super cool

[Sloper]

A couple of books.
A pass to the Irish Bouldering Meet in March 

[Muenchener]

A yearly season ticket for two of the local climbing walls (Thalkirchen and Gilching). Ticket covers two because they both belong to the German Alpine Club.

Already celebrated with a bouldering session at Thalkirchen on Christmas Day (while family were skating) but have had a stomach bug since.

There are other good walls in the area that the ticket doesn't cover (Boulderwelt, High East); will still pay full price to visit them from time to time, for the sake of variety in training and as a progress check.

[Darren S]

Didn't get any presents or give any except for building a new wall in the attic for the family.
300ft2 of climbing surface now installed with scope for more.

[DaveC]

The mrs got me a nine volume Cultural History of Britain to add to the already large "to be read" pile!
An I.O.U. from my sister to let me loose in Melbourne's best book store in March when she returns from travels.
Another I.O.U. from my folks for a split-system air conditioner for the new rec. room we're building in the brick shell of the garage over the next couple of months!!

[grumpycrumpy]

Snake Oil by John Diamond ( thankyou Brian )
Big Ron's autobiography
A pop-up map of New York
A bottle of Port

All in all a nice  little haul ...... Thanks Santa 

[chris j]

A new sport rope, a set of graduated filters for the camera to experiment with, and one of these new-fangled Sony reader things (saves me taking 3kg of books with me when I go away to work). Thumbs up all round! 

[Grubes]

hard grit dvd, Stone monkey dvd and a completion date on buying my first house (next week) 

[namnok]

a canon 500d off the wife
a jacket off my brother and sister
bit of money off my mum
a knife block set off the wife's family
box of chocs and a tshirt off my cousins

[andy_e]

A lump of coal and a written-off car

[Johnny Brown]

I got a bunch of books, of which my favourite is this:



Not only a great retrospective of one our best rock photographer's most vital work, but an insightful read too - a great bunch of essays and interviews from just the right contributors. Recommended.

[Falling Down]

I got a book with photo's of things around the world that look like cocks.. like this.



(I also got a Kindle, a book about weeds, a door knocker, some honey, a doner kebab pot noodle and some fridge magnets that are like 1970's weather forecast icons so I can do a daily forecast like Michael Fish)

[slackline]

A lump of coal and a written-off car

Thats an arse, isn't it the second you've written off?  Hope you're ok.

[Paul B]

A YN560 which is significantly better in quality than the other two I've had (which have suffered some concrete impact injuries)

a book of 1001 Real Ale's

[SA Chris]

Word, so did anyone get owt decent for Xmas then?

Yeah, a Tokina 11-16mm ultra wide angle lens ... but I had to buy it myself!

Actual presents consisted mainly of sushi ginger, both home-made (mother-in-law) and commercial (wife). I think this may be some kind of esoteric Japanese joke.

And a dumping of Oriental powder.

[tomtom]

a book of 1001 Real Ale's

Shouldnt that be

1001 Real Ale's and a book.

[dave]

a book of 1001 Real Ale's

Shouldnt that be

1001 Real Ale's and a book.

Both of you need to drop the apostrophe.

[tomtom]

a book of 1001 Real Ale's

Shouldnt that be

1001 Real Ales and a book on punctuation.

[andy_e]

a book of 1001 Real Ale's

Shouldn't that be

1001 Real Ales and a book on pendantry.

[robertostallioni]

 

[tomtom]

  unlicky Andy!



Yes it is deliberate...

[Nibile]

I had a really huge amount of food luckily, but also:
- a new Samsung compact to film my successes on rock!
- the small Table Tennis net from Decathlon that can be placed on any surface;
- a globe light that is now my new bed light;
- "Into Thin Air".
should get something else in a few days.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Bottle of Scotch

[slackline]

Not tried it yet...




This is fucking gorgeous.  Only thing I've tried so far is 50/50 with normal olive oil for frying eggs, but its fucking delicious...



...next will be with balsamic vinegar & bread for dipping once I fully recover from cold/flu.

Other chilli stuff included 20 dried naga pods, bag of naga flakes, and some 1.5million SHU chilli oil (not too sure about this though!).

New cycling gloves, couple of gardening books and the rest was cash/cheques.

Treated myself to a ReadyNAS Duo 1 Tb (with free 1Tb to claim). 

[SA Chris]

Got two bars of marmite flavoured chocolate (from two different people),

An http://www.addictaball.com/ from dad in law to be. Not sure whether to thank him or punch him, very frustrating.

Also got The Dogs of Winter by Kem Nunn, looks great.

And R won an bottle of 12 yo Highland Park in raffle at work and she doesn't like whisky.

[Falling Down]

Also got The Dogs of Winter by Kem Nunn, looks great.

Great book! Enjoy 

[webbo]

socks
underpants
weather station
after shave
bottle of jura superstition
new down jacket

oh and a son in law.

[Jim]

have you got the weather station up and running yet? thoughts on it?
Have been thinking of upgrading my barometer for a while

[Dr T]

A Sith dressing gown.
After shave
Clint eatswood spagetti western DVD collection
Apocalyse Now Redux edition on DVD (it was my second date with Mrs T - and she still married me )
Books inc
     an intro' to Shinto
     Bill Bryson's new one
     a history of the 20th century through newspaper headlines
Debenham's vouchers that got spent on Jr T
Nivia box set from the in laws
and a rather nice jar of olives..

Awaiting delivery of an Alpkit Filo jacket in pedestrian Black  - I'm not brave enough for yellow!

(does the fact that Jr T got the Gruffalo on DVD and that I've watched it as meany times as he has count as a present for me )

[webbo]

have you got the weather station up and running yet? thoughts on it?
Have been thinking of upgrading my barometer for a while

yep
i have had one before but this one was dead easy to set up.basically put the batteries in and screw the remote unit to the side of the shed.
although as i said above i've got another one thats stopped working.i have only tended to use it to see what the temp is outside as i'm miles away from any climbing so the forecast wouldn't be of that much use.

[namnok]

Got two bars of marmite flavoured chocolate (from two different people),

An http://www.addictaball.com/ from dad in law to be. Not sure whether to thank him or punch him, very frustrating.

my cousin got one too
i got to 95 or so

[lagerstarfish]

Alpkit Filo jacket in pedestrian Black  - I'm not brave enough for yellow!

I ended up getting one in Chili because they didn't have yellow in my size (XXL just right) and my wife thinks that red will look less tramp like when I have covered it in sheep shit, beer, vomit etc (she only has my 15 year old bright orange Rab reject to compare it to).

Also, a 24" monitor so I can watch pr0n myself films about wildlife in glorious HD as well as see what the fuck I am doing when editing videos. Many thanks to all the in laws and outlaws for their help in contributing to this

I got 3 new hats - one that my mother-in-law's toy boy didn't want and one that my sister has embellished with a logo of a pint of lager and a starfish - the other one is is red.

I also got a multi-pack of M&S socks (I asked for S&M clothes). On the packaging it says that these socks are worn by Pentathlon Team GB and that they contain silver which kills germs and shit. In my book that trumps Accapi's claims. My feet already feel like they could out run Christopher Reeve (I mean before he actually died, obviously).

I got my usual Years Best Sci Fi Collection edited by Gardner Dozois, of course.

Also got some poetry, an electric toothbrush and a beard trimmer.

Best of all has been seeing my pregnant wife (who does not enjoy being pregnant at all) getting more and more joy from each present I gave her. YYFY!