Inspire me please (if anyone is in here!)

[TheNightIsDark]

I know it's April. I want to get a head start on christmas so I'm not flapping.

Ideas needed for:

Hamper- Nan- 75 years old. Enjoys art, gardening and baking.

Hamper- Grandad- 82 years old. Enjoys woodwork, chocolate (although recently diagnosed diabetic so that's out), books such as Ken Follett and aeroplanes especially spitfires and such like.

I'm sick of getting them vouchers.

[CallingAllEngels]

Love the hamper ideas. May try and do that this year because I hate wrapping paper

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

My dear old dad is diabetic and I'd get him a small box of proper enjoyable chocolate that he can savour.
Diabetic chocolate is expensive, brittle and laxative.
Maybe not the Christmas Memories you want

[50shadesofknackered]

You can get diabetic chocolate for him, it's not as nice tho.

[PeterParkerSays]

Can your granddad have the Nakd bars? They do a fab cocoa orange one, which might give a chocolate-y hit if he can have the dried fruit, but I'm aware that also counts as sugar so you'd need to investigate.

[JerseySpud]

Im here of course

Hatbox is an awesome idea, or do a hamper of everyday foods she might find useful?

[Ratbagcatbag]

Ooh 70, I like that idea. :) I may have to consider it for a friends mum who loves gardening. :)

[TheNightIsDark]

Thank you

Hat box type may be best as there's 4 DCs and a whole bunch of others to buy presents for as well!

Thanks for the suggestions. I shall start a list of things to look out for.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Go on then, I'm here.

What do you want the hamper to be? A proper wicker hamper (that can be re-used) but is ££ and heavy?
A hat-box type box (HomeSense or TKMaxx sell lovely boxes or chests, at the moment butterflies or script writing, but near Christmas, amazing festive ones. Look in late Oct/Nov they get them early)

Art- cross stitch picture (Hobbycraft)
Gardening- magazine, an orchid in a pot, gardening gloves (nice ones) one of those aprons with the pockets?
I'd love a flat, roll-up hose but I'd never get as far as buying one.
Baking- tons of things in Homesense/TKMaxx - you could look every week and pick things up.
Or Lakeland Limited?

Diabetes are allowed chocolate (ok not often or much ) but maybe a box of really special ones? Hotel Chocolat Tasters - you get 4-6 chocolates in a pack, they often have special offers. Nice just to open and have one or two...

I'm sure there are Hamper Threads on here, if I find any I'll bump them.