Decent corkscrew for £15?
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k up using it. This is my favourite sort...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B010N4WPUA
Bit over of budget, but comes in a nice box. Like this type as most other corkscrews require force. This sort winds the cork out which is both less effort and less likely to rip up a weak cork.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B010N4WPUA
Bit over of budget, but comes in a nice box. Like this type as most other corkscrews require force. This sort winds the cork out which is both less effort and less likely to rip up a weak cork.
If I may, in traditional PH fashion, not answer the question at all.
My wife is a teacher and 90% of the end-of-term gifts she gets go straight into the present box to be given to someone else. If it's edible then we'll eat it, if its drinkable then we'll drink it, and then never think about it again.
The only thing that she ever keeps, and ever looks at again, are hand-written notes that the kids have obviously put some effort into themselves. Doesn't need to be an essay, just a 'thanks for being my teacher' is enough and is far more meaningful - and personal - than something that daddy has ordered from Amazon.
My wife is a teacher and 90% of the end-of-term gifts she gets go straight into the present box to be given to someone else. If it's edible then we'll eat it, if its drinkable then we'll drink it, and then never think about it again.
The only thing that she ever keeps, and ever looks at again, are hand-written notes that the kids have obviously put some effort into themselves. Doesn't need to be an essay, just a 'thanks for being my teacher' is enough and is far more meaningful - and personal - than something that daddy has ordered from Amazon.
deckster said:
If I may, in traditional PH fashion, not answer the question at all.
My wife is a teacher and 90% of the end-of-term gifts she gets go straight into the present box to be given to someone else. If it's edible then we'll eat it, if its drinkable then we'll drink it, and then never think about it again.
The only thing that she ever keeps, and ever looks at again, are hand-written notes that the kids have obviously put some effort into themselves. Doesn't need to be an essay, just a 'thanks for being my teacher' is enough and is far more meaningful - and personal - than something that daddy has ordered from Amazon.
You make a valid point. My wife is a teacher too. So we never buy candles! But I think a gift is in order - perhaps something foody is a good idea..My wife is a teacher and 90% of the end-of-term gifts she gets go straight into the present box to be given to someone else. If it's edible then we'll eat it, if its drinkable then we'll drink it, and then never think about it again.
The only thing that she ever keeps, and ever looks at again, are hand-written notes that the kids have obviously put some effort into themselves. Doesn't need to be an essay, just a 'thanks for being my teacher' is enough and is far more meaningful - and personal - than something that daddy has ordered from Amazon.
rhyspw said:
You read the thread title, yes? 
This (style) is much better than "decent". It turns opening a bottle into a 10sec exercise with zero chance of spillage or broken cork.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/fl4/Corkscrew-GWCLEO-Bo...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/fl4/Corkscrew-GWCLEO-Bo...
C70R said:
This (style) is much better than "decent". It turns opening a bottle into a 10sec exercise with zero chance of spillage or broken cork.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/fl4/Corkscrew-GWCLEO-Bo...
I've broken three of these in last two years. I must be powerfully built. https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/fl4/Corkscrew-GWCLEO-Bo...
So said:
FredAstaire said:
le creuset waiters friend. 10 quid over budget, but really, it is nice.
It is, we bought one for a relative based upon a PH rec. But it is, as you say,£10 over budget (plus delivery),http://www.ecookshop.co.uk/ecookshop/product.asp?p...
I have a screpull too, but it is hard to beat the traditional waiters friend
deckster said:
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The only thing that she ever keeps, and ever looks at again, are hand-written notes that the kids have obviously put some effort into themselves. Doesn't need to be an essay, just a 'thanks for being my teacher' is enough and is far more meaningful - and personal - than something that daddy has ordered from Amazon.
Having considered your point, we decided to buy leather note books and the children are making hand-written thank you plaques to stick in them.The only thing that she ever keeps, and ever looks at again, are hand-written notes that the kids have obviously put some effort into themselves. Doesn't need to be an essay, just a 'thanks for being my teacher' is enough and is far more meaningful - and personal - than something that daddy has ordered from Amazon.
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