So BM's... What did Santa bring you?

[Butch]

Santa spoiled me this year. My daughter works part time washing pots at a local pub for minimum wage, she bloody went and got me a genuine Alpha Industries Flight jacket, an MA-1 in vintage green. I really had to steel myself to stop welling up and crying like a baby when I opened it, totally unexpected.

I mentioned ages ago how I'd like one, after my Dad died, we found a load of old pics including me of one in my skinhead days leaning up against a mate's orange Mark 2 Capri in my tight jeans, DM's and flight jacket trying to look hard LOL.

After opening it she explicitly told me not to get a skinhead again (I have my hair long all the time now, hate the idea of short hair!! - I grow it until the wife tells me to get it cut, then I opt for very light trim using the clippers!) nor can I buy a pair of 10 hole oxblood DM's.

Santa also got me an Omega / Swatch moonphase snoopy watch, which I must say is bloody lovely. 

Apart from that, some socks, deodorant and a "12 inch, black, Anal Intruder" from a forum buddy. I'll keep his name secret for now, but I've a feeling it may have been used as it smells somewhat familiar.

Edited December 25, 2025 by Butch

[boydeste]

Santa brought me the usual experience of being in Thailand for Christmas. 

Little Elves come very well equipped with skills here.

😃

 

[thegrogmonster]

I tell my family not to get me anything.

The wife gives me money which I keep for awhile then transfer back to her bank.

I tell Mum to give me gift vouchers from a major hardware store. I use the vouchers to buy stuff to use around her house.

Other then that just the usual amount of scratchies with the chance to win a few bob.

Merry Xmas to all the good folk on this board.

[Toy Boy]

Last Christmas, my brother bought me a full-size print of a painting from 1768 called 'The Port of Newton', by Anthony Devis. The original is in the Museum of Wales in Cardiff.

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-port-of-newton-glamorgan-160148

What I really wanted, though, was for the print to be copied to oil on canvas, and I spent quite a while looking at various galleries for the best artist. About 6 weeks ago I decided that Lek Gallery (next to VT6) was probably the best option and the painting was ready about a month later. I had the shop on Thepprasit between soi 6 and 8 frame it, as the shops Lek uses had a limited frame selection. It was hanging on the wall of my mancave by Christmas Eve and I'm very pleased with it. 

The village of Newton is where I lived and grew up as a kid, and I spent a great deal of my childhood down those dunes and on the beach behind them, so the painting means a lot to me. It's the earliest good quality landscape picture of the area I'm aware of, though there are older etchings of the 850-year-old St. John the Baptist church just behind the dunes. Porthcawl is now the dominant town in the area (and it's where I keep my flat for the annual trip back) but, at the time this was painted, what's now Porthcawl was just coastal sand dunes with farmland behind. Funny to think that, just a century or so later, Porthcawl would briefly become the world's largest coal-exporting port. 

[Derek Dangleberries]

23 minutes ago, Toy Boy said:

The village of Newton is where I lived and grew up as a kid, and I spent a great deal of my childhood down those dunes and on the beach behind them,

My Father was born in Newton too!!

He was born during WW1 before moving to Dorset because his Mum remarried after his Father was killed in the war. He often said that his uncle owned The Globe Inn at that time! I was brought up in the 50s with a Welsh tinge to my accent!

I now have a strange Welsh/Dorset/NI accent that Asians think is Aussie !!!

[Toy Boy]

1 hour ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

He often said that his uncle owned The Globe Inn at that time!

It's a small world, DD! The Globe Inn, it's still there along with the Globe garage opposite. My dad's regular watering hole was the Newton Hotel on the Green, since renamed the Ancient Briton. He and our next-door neighbour, Dennis, would go down there three nights a week and drink at least a gallon of beer each. (Eventually, they would both die from liver problems.) There must have been an argument or something, as after many years they switched to drinking in the Globe. I was too young to ever have joined them in the Newton Hotel, but I became a regular with them in the Globe. It's now got a good reputation for its food. 

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g672145-d1944653-Reviews-Globe_Inn-Porthcawl_Bridgend_County_South_Wales_Wales.html

 

[Glasseye]

 

An on-line slap on the wrist telling me I should watch my potty mouth.

[maipenrai]

7 hours ago, Glasseye said:

 

An on-line slap on the wrist telling me I should watch my potty mouth.

More correctly, an advisement of just how obnoxious you can be on here while you're trying to be funny.