What is THE most amazing present you have ever been given ?

My little dog. A very elderly rescue from Spain called Flo ❤️

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My engagement ring to wear for my last term at college when everyone else had been flashing them for years.

Grandma70s At the same time my grandfather, an undemonstrative Yorkshireman of few words and certainly not given to extravagance, gave me a magnificent toy farm complete with buildings, pigs, horses, cows, ducks, hens, the lot. There was even a milkmaid with her milking stool and buckets. I don’t expect girls of nine, almost ten, play with toy farms much now, but I loved it and kept it for years.

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs! I had a set of farm animals which I LOVED more than any other toy. That was because I lived in the city but stayed on a farm every summer. So playing with the farm animals was my way of being back there. I would save my pocket money and go to the local toy shop just to buy ONE new animal at a time. I also had the milk maid, the shepherd, the farmer, the girl feeding the chickens. But I never had the farm buildings until I bought some for my own children 30 years later.

My dad made a beautiful farm yard from plans he sent off for, for my sons and then the grandchildren played with it. When my boys were little we used to go to the shop that sold the individual animals etc and they’d spend ages choosing a cow or maybe a sheep. They also had scarecrows, tiny ducks and chickens, and best of all a milking parlour!

This is turning into a thread for people mad about farm animals. Apologies to those who aren't into farms. Here is my collection. Zoom in and you'll see:
On the left:
2 cows, 2 calves and a black bull
woman feeding the chickens (and some tiny yellow chicks)
rabbit hutch with really tiny rabbit
2 pigs, 2 piglets and woman feeding them
On the right:
2 shire horses and a grey donkey
shepherd holding a lamb and his sheepdog
2 rams, 3 ewes, and 2 cute black lambs
billy goat, nanny goat and cute little grey and white kid
Centre:
farmer with shotgun and tractor

I'm afraid that picture isn't as big as it should be, so you can't see the little animals very well! Website's fault.

Chestnut that’s brilliant !! Lucky you !
Completely off thread I’m afraid but I LOVE model villages, model railways, farms and doll’s houses