Archive for July, 2008

Experience Days - Learning To Fly A Glider

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Experience days rock - there’s no two ways about it and I personally have started to spend more and more time selecting “experiences” as presents as much as things.
I like the idea of paying for someone to do something completely new - something that will give them a real buzz and something to talk about [...]

How To Choose The Perfect Gift

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Choosing the “perfect” gift is a hard task indeed but you’ll find the better you know the person, the easier the process becomes. When you know someone really well and spend time with them they will inadvertantly mention how much they like this thing or that when you’re out shopping. They’ll show you things in [...]

Experience Days - Skid Pan Driving

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

My girlfriend loves the buzz of driving cars. She’s always loved the idea of car racing, rally driving and the like (what a tomboy, eh?!) so for her birthday last year I arranged to take her on a skid pan. We personally went to Castle Combe and it was a good day.
The participants were split [...]

Coke Geyser

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

If you haven’t yet heard of the coke geyser you must have been living under a rock! Welcome to what is possibly the coolest, most fun (and messy) Christmas gift around and at a price that makes it a perfect stocking filler!
Firstly I’ll describe the coke geyser, then we’ll get to the real fun bit [...]