to suggest anybody who gave their kid's teacher home grown vegetables...

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as an end of year present or any of the other pointless shite the Guardian recommended recently is basically...a knobber?

We made home made truffles one year for the ds's teachers and we ended up making them to order for the teachers who were willing to pay for them.

I was going to join in with op but then Goblinchild made me feel guilty.

So instead- I hate the Sat Guardian and it's wanky family section. I stopped buying it when they produced a mag edited by their children FFS .

But they will, no doubt, be relieved to know the phone hacking scandalmhas brought me back. I just sound like I have tourettes when I get to the wanky lifestyle sections

I leave present giving to my children now (they are 12 and 10 so old enough to do the thinking and the making too). This year dd cheated and gave her teacher jam that I had made (she might have stirred the mixture once or twice!). Usually she makes her signature brownies, and this year she was going to make some twisted taffy but ran out of time. ds seem to feel a present was required, and as parents we didn't really make a connection with his teacher this year.

We did give both their teachers bunches of flowers one year as that's what the children thought would go down best. They did look a little surprised, so I'm not sure it was the best present. I've never worried about what other parents/teachers thought about our gifts - surely it's between the giver and the receiver? I've never noticed what other children gave the teacher either.

YABVU, I would love homegrown veg as a present!

Well, Goblinchild, I think you are being the one being sniffy and unpleasant by saying you hate wine and all that. I expect people bought you it because they hoped you'd like it, since most people do.

And it's not 'bothering to find out' - it's possibly not having the time, or knowing who to ask, to find out what a teacher would like most of all, so you buy what you think most people probably would be quite pleased to get - sweets, wine etc.

That's the principle I often go on when I'm buying birthday presents for children I don't know so well: would my child be happy with this? It can't be too bad a present then. Would I like this? Well then hopefully the teacher will.

You saying you hate stuff and don't want it and only presents from kids who've 'bothered to find out' what you like is quite rude and annoying.

My dd wanted to give her teacher something nice/individual this year so she did a 'topic book' style piece of writing about everything she'd liked in year 5 and how good it had been and so on in the style the teacher had been pushing all year. But althoughI thought that was quite charming, I bought the teacher a nice bottle of wine too, cos my child's homemade gifts, though charming, might not last that long really. Hope she didn't hate it!

Courgette haters - google 'chocolate courgette cake'. Your lives will never be the same again .

I grow my own veg and would love this as a present, but wouldn't give it for fear of it being taken as a 'trying too hard' present rather than the spirit in which it would have been intended . Mind you, at the height of courgette/runner bean/new potato etc. season, I'm already feeding our family and 4 other neighbours !

And I really like rocket, but I'll be honest: if my dp bought me a big sack of rocket with earth on it in a pretty wrapper for Christmas, I'd be annoyed.