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To wonder what you want for your birthday?

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KateArnott · 10/04/2025 22:15

In an ideal world. My birthday is coming up and on my wishlist, I’ve got: a Longchamp le pliage in paper, LEGO Pink bouquet set, a bracelet and a cake.

What about you?

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JoshLymanSwagger · 11/04/2025 13:07

JoshLymanSwagger · 11/04/2025 13:00

<cough> DH treated me to that for Christmas. It's fab. There's a little birds nest in the roof. 🐥

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Oh, and under the floor, hidden apart from a small arch, is a puddle with a little frog.🐸 It's a bit sad that you won't really see him, but you know he's there.

Roundaboot · 11/04/2025 13:05

JoshLymanSwagger · 11/04/2025 13:00

<cough> DH treated me to that for Christmas. It's fab. There's a little birds nest in the roof. 🐥

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I just love all the little details on it! I can dream...

JoshLymanSwagger · 11/04/2025 13:00

Roundaboot · 11/04/2025 11:04

A welded bracelet
Latch hook rug kit (got one for Christmas which I really enjoyed...you could say now I'm hooked! 😂)

And I would absolutely love the Lego Botanical Garden but I'm not sure that I could ever justify spending or asking anyone to spend nearly £300 on a Lego set!

<cough> DH treated me to that for Christmas. It's fab. There's a little birds nest in the roof. 🐥

JoshLymanSwagger · 11/04/2025 12:59

scottishthistle77 · 11/04/2025 10:43

Very jealous of your Lego Tudor Corner and display case. I don’t even have any space to put it, but I’ve been wanting that particular modular building since it was released.

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Honestly - it's fab. I'm sure you could squeeze it in somewhere. Grin

ladyvimes · 11/04/2025 12:05

I’m desperate for a pair of Birkenstock mules. Have coveted them for ages and I love them. Dd thinks they’re ugly and dh thinks £140 is a ridiculous amount of money to spend on shoes but I continue to dream…

ZiggyPlaysGuitarrr · 11/04/2025 12:05

I received gig tickets, a dry robe, a record, expensive walking socks, books, chocolate and flowers.

Ted27 · 11/04/2025 12:04

I'm 60 in June

I would like my son home for the day and a purple wheelbarrow for my allotment.

MiddleAgedDread · 11/04/2025 12:04

I don’t know, my mother keeps asking me for ideas and I don’t have anything!

Losdy · 11/04/2025 12:02

I had a baby 10 months ago and feel like I went from looking really good to horrendous in the blink of an eye. I’ve ended up starting a bit of a transformation. Have lost two stone but want to carry on with the self improvement. Birthday is in two weeks

Im buying myself (dh will wrap):

  • led red light therapy mask
  • teeth whitening strips
  • hair oil
  • posh hair mask
  • tretinoin

I’ll buy some posh perfume when I lose another stone (dh is a pilot so that is one very nice perk)

notacooldad · 11/04/2025 12:01

HereintheloveofChristIstand
I'm so sorry. Hopefully time will be a healer for both of you and eventually you will reconnect and sort out difference.
It sounds like life has been very difficult recently but things change. I hope things get easier for you soon.

HereintheloveofChristIstand · 11/04/2025 11:54

notacooldad · 11/04/2025 10:50

HereintheloveofChristIstand
Did something happen to break your connection?
Can you find a way back to your friendship? 🧡

It did, and so suddenly too.
This was someone who had supported me through a horrendous bereavement, international move, family problems, having to move house 3 times (all in the space of 9 months). And last November she turned on me, and subjected me to something so humiliating in the one place I thought I was safe.
As you can see by my user name, I am Christian and I pray for her every day. I am devastated. Weird as it sounds, it feels like another bereavement. I wake up and think of something funny to tell her and then remember. I have started a new relationship and she doesn't know. I scattered the ashes and she doesn't know, despite holding me up at the funeral. I want to read her the poem I wrote for the anniversary of my beloved relative's passing. My door will always be open, although trust will take a while to be restored. I honestly don't know what it would take to 'fix'.
I wasn't innocent neither - I was burned out and probably hard work. But I didn't deserve that.
Thanks for being kind.

LobeliaBaggins · 11/04/2025 11:26

A denim jacket.

mickandrorty · 11/04/2025 11:25

I just had my birthday I got
Lots of books
New bag
Trainers
Clothes
make up
a nice notebook
a good salt and pepper grinder
Carrot cake which was a real treat because I love it but am the only person in the house who eats it so i never buy it.

Roundaboot · 11/04/2025 11:04

A welded bracelet
Latch hook rug kit (got one for Christmas which I really enjoyed...you could say now I'm hooked! 😂)

And I would absolutely love the Lego Botanical Garden but I'm not sure that I could ever justify spending or asking anyone to spend nearly £300 on a Lego set!

eyespartyparty · 11/04/2025 10:56

Oh and for my birthday I’d love anything chocolatey and maybe a day out at the coast with fish and chips on the beach.

eyespartyparty · 11/04/2025 10:55

Lol at the people who say ‘I hate presents’! What really? You hate it when someone gives you a bunch or flowers or a box or chocolates?! Bet you’re a bundle of joy 😂

DeciDela · 11/04/2025 10:51

iPad
L'eau d'Issey
Hotel stay
Leather jacket
Books
Bubble bath
Socks
Jigsaws
Necklace

notacooldad · 11/04/2025 10:50

HereintheloveofChristIstand
Did something happen to break your connection?
Can you find a way back to your friendship? 🧡

HairyToity · 11/04/2025 10:49

Nothing. We're saving for some home improvements. Just buying on need at the moment.

HereintheloveofChristIstand · 11/04/2025 10:47

I’d just like my friend back. It has been 5 months yesterday that we have barely spoken and we used to speak almost every day.

scottishthistle77 · 11/04/2025 10:43

JoshLymanSwagger · 11/04/2025 06:34

It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago.
I got:
Lego Tudor Corner and a display case for it, some Bothy Threads cross stitch kits, an RTO cross stitch kit I could only buy from Germany, which nearly doubled the price with postage Blush and some new knickers from M&S.

It was also our WA so DH got some socks and hankies (he was down to fred bear ones Grin) a WASGIJ jigsaw and a couple Regatta fleece gilets.

Very jealous of your Lego Tudor Corner and display case. I don’t even have any space to put it, but I’ve been wanting that particular modular building since it was released.

beguilingeyes · 11/04/2025 09:45

I don't usually want anything (just take me out to dinner), but this year I wasnt a pair of Beatles Crocs.

Flowers1985 · 11/04/2025 09:42

I got uggs, trainers, earrings perfume and socks for mine

evtheria · 11/04/2025 09:40

Secret, “anything goes” wishlist:
• a mixed pie selection from getbaked, I love pies and our oven is broken so can’t make one
• a cat/kitten
• to be sent on one of these women-only outdoorsy hiking/skiing/kayaking retreat trips for several days
• a proper new haircut and dye (I’m so grey! But not in a cool way) at a good salon

TigerRag · 11/04/2025 09:37

I'm genuinely not sure. It was my birthday earlier this week. I was bought a pair of boots which don't fit so trying a new pair