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My dear friend, who I miss since moving back here from France. She is so inspirational and imaginative, but she cannot knit! I am crafting her a beautiful scarf in the softest wool and I know this gift will be truly appreciated.

From my husband, I would love a pair of Apple earbuds.

A real luxury that I couldn't justify buying, but I've dropped a couple of hints in the 'old man's ears!

My partner is eagerly awaiting an e-bike conversion kit, he cycles everywhere but has reached the age where he needs the occasional boost in power, I’m just hoping it arrives in time and turns out to be his long awaited legsaver !

I hope this Christmas to surprise my mother with a day off. She does so much for our family time to put her feet up and enjoy a great book.

I will be giving my daughter a Fortnum & Mason canvas shopping bag! It looks great and I always look for my presents to create a bit of 'fun'. We can't 'live the dream' but we will have a lot of fun thinking about it !

Really looking forward to DGS opening the dinosaur finger puppet he has been wanting.

Best Christmas present is watching my grandchildren
Open their presents! I won’t be with them so it’s FaceTime
again...

Looking forward to seeing GC open presents and spending time with them all together which doesn't often happen ??

My best Christmas gift this year has been given to me. My husband is free of prostrate cancer. So very happy all round.

I'm sending my daughter (who lives in Australia) a photo book containing all the school photographs of her three children. Two of them are now in their 20s and the youngest is 13, so I had great fun getting the photos in the right date order.

ErThis Christmas I am giving everyone homemade lavendar bags. The lavender is from my garden and the little drawstring bags will be sewn by me. I know they will be appreciated as we have seen evidence of so many moths this year and my bags will perfume the cupboards beautifully - not like the old moth balls my Mother always swore by.

you cant beat a good book.

The gift I am most looking forward to giving this Christmas is the parcel of hand-knitted items I have made for our new grandchild, due on Boxing Day, and a big kiss for his Mum and Dad and him. He will doubtlessly have his own schedule (as babies do) and it may end up being a belated Christmas gift but, understandably, I don't mind in the slightest.

I'm giving our younger daughter (who hosts Christmas Day for the whole family) some lovely Holly & Ivy kitchen linens. She'll be very surprised as I'm always totally practical with gifts & would never buy anything so extravagant, but I won some vouchers in a competition & decided to splurge.

I am giving my D a rest from work and family problems.
She is coming to stay with me as her two C are going 3000 miles away to spend Christmas with their father.
It will be her first C without them so I will work hard to ensure she enjoys it.

I'm dropping hints all over the place but the one present I'd like to receive is the new Shardlake book, Tombland, by CJ Sansom. This was the book that many of his fans didn't think would happen, but it is great to hear that the cancer he has been living with is now in recession - long may that last! However, can I wait that long? Will I just end up buying myself a well deserved gift?

I am looking forward to giving some home made gifts this year, I haven’t done that in years.

I am giving my 30+ son a Storm Trooper onesie.

I haven't done much Christmas shopping yet, but started putting up a Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts-themed gift for my younger one, who's 8. So far got him a Hogwarts top and Newt Scamander pop head. Thinking of buying a HP diary and stationery.

This year its books for all the grandchildren as they love reading! So far I have got various box sets - diary of a wimpy kid, the worst witch, disney dark tales, pj masks, and also national geographic animal books and the dinosaur that pooped the bed! Something for all ages and will last longer than toys.

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I'm book mad and can't think of a better way to spend any free time at Christmas. Looking forward to the house being full of family and friends. but equally love being able to escape into fiction..

I'm hoping to hear that my gift choices have been right for people... I love buying presents and think about each one.

Am giving my 5 year-old twin granddaughters a huge storybook design Disney advent calendar, with a new book for each day of Advent: perfect to fuel their newly discovered joy of reading for themselves!

Love seeing the family open their presents! Especially the younger ones and the older ones who struggle financially. Christmas is a time for giving and sharing.