The bloke in red brought me a lovely new automatic welding mask, membership of the Hare preservation society and an oil painting of my favourite place on earth, Plynlimon.

I must have been pretty good. Bell pro star aero road helmet ( gave Santy the link for one at 60%off ) , new gloves, rear mudguard for the 29er, love mud head set bottle cage thing, alp kit t-shirt and some hiking waterproof trousers.Few other little non-bike bits too.

Also bought a 30m extension cable and WiFi extender for electrics and WiFi in the turbo dungeon shed with pennies off my Mummy

Have you been good boys and girls then ??

Happy Christmas

Other than what I bought myself AND wrapped myself I got a copy of MBR from my daughter.
You'd think after spending £18k on a car for the wife, she would have bought me some undies!

Jack Thurston's book Lost Lanes Wales
The 2015 Cordillera
And for the bike packer with everything
A cuben fiber tent peg bag, coin/card wallet and a fantastic Cuben Fibre Lantern weighing in at just 16g

Front of new tee shirt


And on the back

Alpamayo frame, top tube and handlebar bags, plus a new Shimano Dyno hub. He did use my credit card to pay for it all though...

Muc off, some interesting books and tickets to bannff fkim festival

A lovely Alpkit framebag for my Inbred 29er, which I have decided isn't as bad as all that, a new multi-tool to replace the one I lost and then found two days after the replacement arrived. And a nice new fleece.

and tickets to bannff fkim festival

In Canada?

I got a nice wooden beard comb*, a "Shut Up Legs" t-shirt, a DVD and a Scaletrix car. Absolutely no bike or Bivvy gear **


* I might need to grow a longer beard to get the best out of it

** not like I'm short in that department anyway.

A copy of Bunker Research
Modern Toss Working Day colouring book
Vulpine Soft-shell gloves
WTB Pure V Race saddle
White chocolate reindeer

He rather spectacularly forgot to bring swmbo's pressie that I hope to God is still at home when we get back from the inlaws.....

Bearbonesnorm wrote:

and tickets to bannff fkim festival

In Canada?

sadly not just a the local theatre

Arcteryx running tights
Wildcat fat lion harness
Bikepacking book
Jumper n socks
Beer!

To be honest, this is the first Christmas that my daughter is starting to understand the present idea, so had an amazing time watching her open presents and truthfully giving her opinion of them Just like her Dad

That lost lanes book is most excellent John

Got an alpkit koala seat pack so no more pissing around in the rain and midges trying to strap a dry bag to my seat post with loads of strapps !!! Gonna get a black badge in 2017 just from the time saving !!!!

And got some better over shoes

an ice cold day 55 miles and 4500ft of climbing
tagine for my christmas dinner and lamb cutlets for Meraid and a bed for the night feeling lucky

A bumper pack of zip ties

a spurcycle bell. totally fantastic
ardmore malt
a large framed print of a photo i took

i am happy.

Revelate Pocket
Bibs and knee warmers
Some lights
A t-shirt warning people I may start talking about bikes (thanks dad!)
Dave Barter's Tommy Godwin book.

I got a pair of nice headphones, a bottle of Laphroaig, a sushi recipe book, a t-shirt which sounds a lot like Alasdair's and a 40t narrow-wide chainring for the kaffenback.

All good really, and the kids were hugely excited to see the remains of the snacks/whisky they had left out the night before..... And then got even more excited when they saw what they'd got!

I read Stu's list as starting with "automatic wedding mask"!

I got some shirts, waterproof cycling shorts and a pocket sundial (see an old thread about watches)

Managed to deal with almost all the in-laws to just buy presents for the kids so I just got an Alpkit Filoment vest from the missus, and bought myself a load if other stuff in November/December.

step/running watch, money, guy martin book, cough medicine

Santa brought me the flu and as we have the in-laws staying the wife and I are sleeping in the living room. Good job I have a winter (-4°) sleeping bag and a summer (8°) bag because my body is alternating betwwen freezing and boiling.

Minipresso from the kids,( better espresso than I expected). Exped mat and Lumen 800 light en-route.

ScotRoutes wrote:

That is the best t shirt I've seen in ages. Want.