What would you like for Christmas?

Subject: What would you like for Christmas?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:06 PM

There's almost certainly been a few threads asking this, but I couldn't find any.

Anyway, I thought it might be a good way of getting ideas for what to give - or indeed what to hope to get. And maybe a way for people to drop hints.

Should this be a BS thread? Well, since I suspect some of the most interesting ideas might be related to music, not necessarily.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Will Fly
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:09 PM

Just cash - to go towards a beautiful parlour guitar that's being made for me.

Very nice of you to ask!

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Bounty Hound
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:11 PM

Can I have another bouzouki please

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:17 PM

Think I already got mine: nice digital piano, and have just had delivery of a gig bag and dust cover for it. Have asked the (grown-up) kids to buy me a better pedal than the one that came with it!
But my best present will be my first grandchild: due any day now! Already buying musical toys for him/her.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:19 PM

I would rather people sent money to Haiti..but if everyone were OK I would want a good peppermill, an extremely hot iron, fuzzy socks. mg

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:21 PM

I'd like to spend Christmas in London IF there was any snow to speak of.
Other than that,another tool box.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:54 PM

Come to Edinburgh instead Kendall:if you can get in. We've got tons of it!

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Wesley S
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 08:15 PM

There's a Kimble F-5 mandolin on the way to me now via UPS so asking for anything else would be very selfish.

OK - I'll take an autoharp and a Collings uke please. Or a National tricone.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: ClaireBear
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 08:50 PM

I'll take labour over goods any day. This year, what I'd really like is for someone to volunteer to restring my harp. I have a complete set of replacement strings -- just scared to start the restringing process for fear I might do it wrong or break some of the new strings.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: andrew e
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 09:25 PM

A world based on love and truth and togetherness.

Imagine!!

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: GUEST,Lin
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 01:40 AM

A private concert with Donovan playing his music just for me "live."
(not on a record, CD or DVD but actually live in person).

Though that would be lovely, it's not gonna happen! :-(

Nice pair of black jeans would be nice.

Some folk CD's.

Lessons to learn to play the sitar. Not easy finding a teacher around here that teaches that instrument.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: open mike
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 03:15 AM

a camper shell and lumber rack and seat covers for my truck..not asking for much, eh? they make lumber racks that allow a camper
shell to be put on and taken off while the rack stays on.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: johncharles
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 03:40 AM

a collings guitar

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: banjoman
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 05:26 AM

A new spine

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 06:23 AM

Another Volvo - preferably the 940 Sport Edition Estate manual.
A set of Volvo Polaris wheels.
A bloody great Landrover - a 110 v8 (er, with LPG)
A recondition for my rear projection TV.
Another set of guts for another souped up computer - AMDx4Phenom on a full ATX board with huge PSU and koshels of RAM (I'll squeeze the guts of the one I've just built into a Tiny case).

Oh, and a suitable person of gender to ... polish them (polish what?) for me.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: theleveller
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 07:03 AM

Well, the green slime caravan's on its last legs (wheels) so maybe a replacement.

Oh, and an NK Forster bouzouki/guitar please:

Please santa....

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: kendall
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 07:09 AM

I do love Edinburgh, it's my favorite city in the world, but London has a certain panache at Christmas. Dickens, and all that twaddle you know.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 07:14 AM

A job would be nice. Please Santa xx

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: theleveller
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 07:15 AM

What I've really asked for is:

Books
The Ballad of Britain – Will Hodgkinson
Seasons They Change – Jeanette Leech
Ocean of Sound – David Toop
Magic in Medieval Manuscripts - Sophie Page

CDs
A Lighter Touch – Robin Dransfield
All This Longing – Reg Meuross

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Green Man
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 07:18 AM

Enough time to do all the things that I want to do.

The health and energy to achieve the above.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: GUEST,susanc
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 01:28 PM

"Corries Live" cd vol 1&2, a cd of Scottish & Irish sea songs, "House of Cards" dvd set (saw it so long aqo and would like to see it aqain), Bob Dylan's latest bootleg cd, and a flannel robe. Wait, I already got those for my November birthday! Chanukah has arrived and will celebrate it with family tomorrow. Who knows what it will bring. I'm grateful for everything already.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 01:58 PM

A cittern, haven't decided which maker yet though. A mellow sounding frailing banjo whose voice nonetheless has some ping in it. And a 5-octave set of English-type hand bells (by Schulmerich) preferably with a porter who can haul them around for me. Time to play them all.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: GUEST,FloraG
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 02:00 PM

A hardanger would be nice.
FloraG.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Gurney
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 02:03 PM

One of those devices that goes between the microphones and the laptop so that I can do live recording direct to computer instead of onto my minidisc recorder.
Dream on!

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Reinhard
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 02:46 PM

Peace and quiet would be nice. Much more importsnt to me than things I can buy any day of the year.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: John P
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 03:24 PM

Nothing physical for me, thanks.

I'd like to live in a country that claims to be in favor of world peace but ISN'T the world's largest manufacturer and exporter of weapons of war.

A president with some balls.

Equal rights for gay folks.

A law making it a crime for a politician to knowingly tell a lie.

A law making it a crime for a news person -- or anyone claiming to be such -- to knowingly tell a lie.

True separation of church and state.

Sorry, I must be in a political mood today . . .

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: open mike
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 06:44 PM

you mean you want someone from hardang or a fiddle from there??!!

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 07:44 PM

Kendall - AFAIK, your spouse has already dispatched herself to the UK for the approaching Christmas... and we can (hopefully) work out a way of getting your Elgin pocket watch working for next Christmas!

Kitty

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: kendall
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 09:07 PM

If you want to mail it to me, Kitty, I'd pay for that.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: GUEST,FloraG
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 04:43 AM

open mike
either would be Ok but the fiddle is something I've been on the lookout for a while.

Never seen one for sale in the Uk and I'm reticent to get without trying it out.

Actually - this sounds a bit like some of the comments on the back page of my local paper in the dating section. I can understand any confussion Mike.

I'm also hoping for good enough weather next week to get to the Christmas do - mainly carols - that we do for the old people's day centre. We had to negotiate with a neighbour last week to get us and our eqipement to the barn dance. perhaps I should be asking for a 4 by 4 - but perhaps not.

Seasons wishes to all
FloraG.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Rafflesbear
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 05:00 AM

A day with my mum and dad alive again, so that I could tell them all that's gone on since I last saw them and they could see what a fine man their little grandson has grown into.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: autoharpbob
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 07:15 AM

Whoops - follow that!

I would like an autoharp app for the i-Pad. Yes, there is one.

And the i-Pad to go with it

And a(nother) real autoharp just to compare - a really nice D'Aigle Cascade single key with switch out bars would do me.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 07:19 AM

I think it's going to be the same unfulfilled request as last year; a snowplough!

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 08:13 AM

2 baby wolfhound ladies
a clavichord
a Zoom H1
a new right elbow, and a new left wrist

I might get the middle two!

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 08:13 AM

The "Jonathan Creek" dvd boxset! It's only £15 at Amazon UK. That's 1,500mins of my favourite detective and his classy dufflecoat! And, in a number of episodes, the rather attractive Julia Sawalha.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: GUEST,Seaking at Sea
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 08:39 AM

To be at home.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 11:41 AM

I want to hear my daughter sing. I want to hold her and sing with her.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 11:44 AM

this , or its bigger brother, the Stagepas 500.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: theleveller
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 12:19 PM

VT, go outside, stand somewhere quiet, look up at the stars and listen...and you will!

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 12:24 PM

VT: I do believe theleveller is correct!! Do give it a try on a beautiful starry night.


I only want peace on earth.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 12:30 PM

...acheless new back teeth!

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 01:52 PM

a ¼" BSF stud, bolt...anything with a few threads on it. I need it to fix my (English)Myford wood lathe, and you simply can't find them in the USA!

(When I bought the lathe, they sent me a standard flat-blade screwdriver, of which I have 20, and did NOT include the BSF stud needed to access the headstock gears for lubrication.)

Oh.... and a few quarts of Springbank Scotch!

and a bunch of that Peace on Earth would be nice also.....

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 01:57 PM

Here you are Bill.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 02:45 PM

Yup...that may be the type of place I end up at, John. I am about to try emailing Myford to see if they'll correct the old error.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 03:46 PM

Well if I can help, let me know

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 05:54 PM

And all I've done for want of wit
To memory now I can't recall.

That's what I'd like!

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: GUEST,Sid F
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 06:34 PM

10 disc boxed set by Cecil Taylor: '2Ts for a lovely T.'
Al O' Donnell's 2 early albums - got them on mp3 but would like the originals.
And a request - Dick Miles to stop his incessant, even if amusingly incoherent, self-publicising of a minor talent (at best) for a couple of weeks. (Please Santa)

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 06:39 PM

"wolfhound ladies" sounds interesting...
...........................

There are things we'd really want, which aren't to be had all too often - youth and health and people we have lost - and the consolation prizes that'd be nice to have anyway - as Bob Dylan put it:

...And yes, there's something you can send back to me
Spanish boots of Spanish leather.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 08:24 PM

A Victor Meldrew T-shirt might be an idea. Or maybe a Victor Meldrew scarf would be better,given the weather.

Subject: RE: What would you like for Christmas?
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 02:15 PM

Like this, McGrath!

www.hannikins.co.uk/for_sale.html

I need ladies, cos the male wolfie X I've already got gets on better with ladies.

Paws