Help. What to get dad for 60th that's not bothered?
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Shaolin said:
Another vote for experiences over stuff. However.... photos always go down well, can you make an album of family photos or get a few framed and put them up for him? It's a fairly easy much appreciated thing that many people just never get round to doing.
Or even better - a Pat Butcher clock?How about something about the family surname? Mum just got one for her dad from here.
http://www.hallofnames.org.uk/
Looks very nice.
http://www.hallofnames.org.uk/
Looks very nice.
to buy him £4.99's worth of deeply sDaveGoddard said:
That's a coincidence, it's my dad's 60th at the end of this week and I have no idea what to get him either. Although knowing my dad, whatever I do for him he wouldn't appreciate it in the slightest so I'm not sure I'll bother.
Update: I bought him a new wallet from his football club, inscribed with the club crest and his initials, and a bottle of gin. He hasn't even opened either of them. 
DaveGoddard said:
DaveGoddard said:
That's a coincidence, it's my dad's 60th at the end of this week and I have no idea what to get him either. Although knowing my dad, whatever I do for him he wouldn't appreciate it in the slightest so I'm not sure I'll bother.
Update: I bought him a new wallet from his football club, inscribed with the club crest and his initials, and a bottle of gin. He hasn't even opened either of them. RobinBanks said:
"This Pam St. Clement A5 canvas clock has saved my marriage. It convinced me to murder my wife and bury her under my patio thus saving both of us from that ghastly marriage."
anonymous said:
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For my FIL's 60th we purchased him a pleasure flight in a light aircraft, when he opened the card, the look on his face was one of horror, I am sure he thought we were trying to kill him off for our inheritance 
Anyway the day finally came round for his flight and he was still not a happy bunny, but when he was up there he loved it, we flew down over the north Yorkshire Moors to Whitby and then back along the coast and over his house, he even got to fly it,
What a change when we had landed he was full of it, never stopped talking about it.
More details please? I think my old many would love something like this.Anyway the day finally came round for his flight and he was still not a happy bunny, but when he was up there he loved it, we flew down over the north Yorkshire Moors to Whitby and then back along the coast and over his house, he even got to fly it,
What a change when we had landed he was full of it, never stopped talking about it.
http://www.clevelandflying.com/triallesson.htm
But I would think most flying clubs do the same type of thing, it appears cheaper than some of the red letter day type of experience.
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