To be devastated that he's missed the Christmas shopping deadline

[tilypu]

I only asked for one thing. The deadline passed last weekend and it turns out he hasn't even bloody ordered it.

https://www.buccellati.com/en_gb/openable-cabbage-large-centerpiece-sagbow011395xxx000.html

Christmas is ruined! He's suggesting he fashion one out of tin foil instead. He thinks he'll be able to fasten it together with the Tiffany paperclip he got me a few years ago. To be fair, he created a surprisingly good mock up of a Jackson Pollock painting, although I think Crispín and Tabitha suspect it's not genuine.

I'm utterly discombobulated.

Good thinking. And no "send the Under Butler", he needs to collect it himself.

He could be creative and wrap an old cabbage in tin foil.

Why are you still with him ? Leave now OP.

Thank god you didn’t ask for a Banksy, he probably would have graffitied on your wall at midnight and called the news.

Has he attending any dinner parties or hunting weekends, or ski trips lately without you ? How is his share portfolio ?

Chin up darling.

🤣🤣 i have often wondered why you buy someone who has everything and now I know.
That website must be delighted with the number of hits it's getting this morning! 🤣

There's always the golden cabbage.

In a golden Carriage. Delivered right to your door.

This thread warms my heart. While "D"H is obviously a thoughtless brassica belittling bastard, the kindness of other MNetters reaching out to offer their spare Christmas cabbages is truly the spirit of the season.

OP, leave him but know you have found good people here.

Oh come on easily solved. A Lidl cabbage and a can of silver spray paint, does your DH have no imagination. Using that method he could go all out and do a matching broccoli and a few carrots to really make a great centrepiece!

As long as your guests are eating their lunch with this ‘must-have’ cutlery, no-one will notice a missing cabbage! williamwalter.co.uk/product/antique-silver-george-iii-coburg-pattern-flatware-for-24-made-in-c-1813/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAmfq6BhAsEiwAX1jsZ9DrCfn189VEqYjiaMTc4pYM3sD2Gink6caVkxX776RrxvZ4aNCkIxoCibIQAvD_BwE

There's a picture showing how it works as a bowl with a cover. It's what every dinner table needs. How will you ever be able to hold your head up in society without one, OP?

Unforgivable.

My algorithms are going to be so distorted after this thread

You can borrow one of mine.

I ordered mine in October to be prepared.

Never rely on a man for something so vital.

How do we know it's not a Brussels sprout, grotesquely overdeveloped?

Let him fashion you one from tin foil and serve it to him for Christmas dinner.

Such bravery and endurance, OP. If there was a Mumsnet Woman of the Year, I'm sure we'd all nominate you.

Hope you have your therapy booked

I think you’re being too harsh on him personally. He could be ND.

I'll make you one for 20k, I'll even throw in a real cabbage you can use for Christmas and a bag of Aldi chocolate coins. PM me hun.

Badly done MrTilypu, badly done.

@Anewuser

I thought the same. I’d never get my skittles out between those flaps.

I was quietly enjoying the thread until this line, DP came in to see what on earth I was laughing about but I can't even explain any of this discussion to him.

And Evri will promptly deliver it to a house a few streets away and send you the tracking details showing the balloon in the wrong area, and a photo of someone elses’ doorstep !!

I would send you one of my spare silver cabbages if the Royal Mail could be relied upon to deliver in time (and if I possessed a spare or any silver cabbages). Since when were cabbages festive ornamentation anyway?

You need to raise your standards OP.
Insist he makes amends.

But how would you get the crisp crumbs out of the cabbage?