While you might not find any ambergris or pirate doubloons cast on the Pt Chev sands, you're sure to discover the odd interesting bit of driftwood, mangrove pod or little plastic soy sauce fish from someone's sushi. Unfortunately as we're outside of the major shipping routes, most of them don't wash up on our shores and beachcombing isn't the lucrative adventure it is in other countries. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be doing Dry December, which is beyond the realms of human ability. Some of your friends and relatives might suddenly claim to be teetotal. This gift is mostly appreciated by the recipient's teenage children when they raid the liquor cabinet for whatever their parents wouldn't drink even when they were out of actual wine. What could be more artisanal and Pinterest-worthy than bottles of your home-harvested, organic dandelion wine? It's weed alcohol, although don't tell your friends that in case you get their hopes up. Ignore the nostalgic tears in their eyes as you tell them how much they're saving now they don't have to go to Lush. People always need soap, so gift your handcrafted bars year after year. The melt-and-pour kind of soap is for amateurs get some satisfaction out of your hobby by combining ash and lard, which you probably had lying around anyway if your kitchen is any indication. It's not like anyone eats fruit anyway, that's what smoothies are for.Īnother of life's great disposable items, if the recipient doesn't want it they can banish it to the undies drawer or leave it in the bottom of the shower to waste away like a Weight Watchers celebrity. Try not to worry about whether there's a reason for that while you resurrect this traditional heritage art.
Once the pride of the dining table, wax fruit has become increasingly rare. We'd all love a fruit bowl that always looks perfect, with no blueish powder gathering at the bottom. Instead, consider carving food out of wax.
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Is your soap dispenser out of soap? Be honest, is your soap dispenser a cracked bar of Sunlight in the laundry? Giving up baking might be the safest thing you ever did. Before you inflict your gingerbread on someone ask yourself whether they've ever seen your kitchen, the one with the smelly chux cloth hanging over the tap and the ant nest behind the oven clock. It is, when it comes from a commercial kitchen with an A certificate. You may think that baking is a wonderful gift. Bottoms up! Actually if the bottom is up, you might want to start over. It's the gift that keeps on giving: the inbuilt instability makes sure it breaks before it becomes the tragic ugly duckling of the glass cabinet they'll still be picking shards out of the bottom of the dishwasher when you give them more next year. A challenging and skilled hobby, this will stretch your creative talents while producing a great deal of interestingly wobbly glassware. Take up glass-blowing and never be short of a vessel, unless it's the blood vessel you burst blowing into the tube. Hand-blown glassesĮveryone needs a glass, whether sampling IPA or Adam's Ale. This gift is perfect: you'll get lots of exercise on your collecting walks, the earthy wood tones go with everything, and if the recipient hates it and its occasional bonus spider, they can burn it without guilt.
An ideal gift for young men who dress as lumberjacks, or for anyone whose decor leans towards Scandi, because there are lots of forests in Scandinavia - or there would be if they hadn't all been turned into flat-pack furniture. Slender silver birch for texture, pine for its rustic scent, and a cluster of twisted willow for kindling. Take your time choosing, cutting and arranging a pile of whimsical, natural fireside logs.
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