All I want for Christmas is.......

[Ribenapigeon]

All I want for Christmas is a Monocle. Really, that's what I want, ive become more longsighted as ive got older and now have to put close up specs on all the time and it drives me round the bend. All I need though most of the time is some magnification for my dominant eye, for things like checking my smartphone or reading ingredients in the supermarket etc. So a Monocle would be great. So I wonder, what wierd or outlandish things would you like for Christmas but are unlikely to get no matter how many hints you drop?

[hellkat]

Proper younger-person teeth.
I'm grinding my jaw a lot lately
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[yen_powell]

[stinkwheel]

Monacles aside, nothing says eccentric quite like glasses with only one lens in.

Speaking of which, that brought to mind a particularly eccentric ratbiker who hellkat might remember called Pigeon. He still going about? His utterly hatstand website is still up. https://www.pigeonsnest.co.uk/ His article on macroscopic quantum tunnelling as an explanation of why 10mm sockets and odd socks go missing particularly stood out.
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[Ribenapigeon]

Im not eccentric just longsighted, the monocle is a practical solution.

[Howling Terror]

I won't get it but I'd like a camera that's better than a phone camera but still fits in a big pocket.

The Fuji x100V appears the most robust out of the bunch and completely weather sealed once a UV filter has been fitted.

The Sony and Ricoh use the same sized sensor and are smaller but ...hmm.

The Fuji is on the wish list.
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[stinkwheel]

[Howling Terror]

[Howling Terror]

I also want another arc'teryx hoody.

Best bit of outdoor kit I've ever had and I've worked outdoors for +30 years.

Atom LT (light) is my current one, it does for 90% of the conditions.
Something thicker like the Atom AR (all round) for the proper freezing days.


On the wish list it goes..
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Diabolical homemade music Bandcamp and Soundcloud
Singer songwriter, Artist and allround good bloke Listen to Andrew Susan Johnston here
The Harry Turner Project

[Ribenapigeon]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Howling Terror]

[Howling Terror]

[Nobby the Bastard]

The FIA to state rules are rules and that when the regs say the safety car goes in at the end of the lap after all of back markers are released this has to be applied regardless.
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[thx1138]

A decent full spectrum grow light for growing seedlngs etc in my leanto greenhouse. Solar powered would be nice.

Oh, and search engines to stop sending me to to websites about growing dope, when I look up grow lights.

[A100man]

..a shag*.


*not of the cormorant type either - with a lady.
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[Polarbear]

[A100man]

[Nobby the Bastard]

You could just stick to solo performances.
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Sprint ST 1050

[Polarbear]

[grr666]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Fisty]