Please help!! What do I get my Dad's for his 70th?! Apparently no hobbies or interests. Good luck!

[ThePurpleOneIsOverrated]

Hi,

Just that really. He's not into gadgets, grooming, clothes, cooking, he doesn't have any hobbies other than drinking wine and eating curry but surely neither of these things are special enough for such a milestone birthday.

He loves rugby and cricket, but recently said he doesn't see the point in seeing a game live, so that was that brief idea instantly ruined.

Any ideas? It will be a joint gift between 3, but money is a bit tight for all of us this year so I'd say a £50 pp max, so £150 overall, in case your maths is a bit rusty

M(assive)TIA

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Wine tasting and a nice bottle

Curry train or curry cooking course

Subscription to a spice club/curry recipe delivery type thing

We did a this is your life thing for my granddad around that age big red book full of pictures etc we did a party with old friends and family etc he l9ved it

Meal out or night in a nice hotel (if you can find a voucher deal)?

Can't think of much other than :
Nice Roberts radio so he can listen to Test Match Special if tickets to a live game are out.
Subscription to a wine club.
Leather wallet/belt

(DSis and I bought our DF a silver topped cane for his 70th - he'd always wanted one though)

I would also suggest an experience/outing, not just food/hotel but somewhere meaningful either for him to revisit or somewhere he has always wanted to go.

Doesn't have to be far or madly expensive - somewhere he grew up or has fond memories of.
I think a hotel stay - even at Travelodge - and a pub meal would be kind-of incidental but the main highlight would be the outimg itself as a family.

I had the same problem finding something for my dad's 70th as he also has no hobbies and spends much of his time watching TV or getting the bus to a nearby town and back. He does like steam trains so we took him for Sunday lunch on a steam train which he loved. If he likes curry as curry train as suggested by a PP sounds a great idea.

A new radio sounds a good idea.

I bought my Dad a record player, as he had old records gathering dust. He loved it.

A sibling got him a garden bench. Another, a box of very nice wine. And another, a Family day out.

All well received.

Thanks so much everyone. Some great ideas!

The curry train?... Can I have more details please?

This makes a nice present for milestone birthdays:

www.ijustloveit.co.uk/product/birthday-edition-newspaper-book/

I did a family tree for mine. However, that did mean I had to start eighteen months before.

Sky sports sub?

Flying lesson?

Curry train.

This sort of thing:

www.embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk/dales-dining/the-curry-express

www.valleyrestaurants.co.uk/passagetoindia.php

Lots of the historic steam railways or more modern scenic local type routes seem to offer this type of thing so you could probably find one near him or somewhere he would like to visit.

I did a wine hamper once, different bottles from different places, a wine thermometer, a wine book, nice glasses.

I also got ancestry DNA test another year which he absolutely loved and started a whole interest in his family tree.