My ebook on improve your English with alliteration is available for download from Amazon.
English dictionaries of all sizes can be bought on line.
If you are obsessed with Stonehenge or the Loch Ness Monster, or know somebody who is, then, failing a trip to visit the original and/or the museum, a key ring, poster or book is a cheaper alternative to stick inside a Christmas stocking for amusement. Or inside a Christmas cracker, the DIY sort.
I bought towelling bath mit from Primark with a Union Jack.
Gifts From England
Chocolate
Passing through Heathrow airport? We bought Terry's white chocolate and orange bar. It tastes good. It's different.
Tesco Express in London often has cakes topped with Thornton chocolates.
Also look for Kendal Mint cake.
English Heritage
Union flag (union jack) golf umbrella, twenty five pounds (plus postage?) with navy outside and the Union Jack inside.
The cheapest union Jack tee-shirts are on ebay. Some of them have messy edges to the flag. You can buy tee-shirts with the flag large or small and the normal way up or sideways.
Stonehenge
Spinner key ring; oven glove. Socks. Bottle opener key ring.
Book: I never knew that about England. Tells you where Wendy and Long John Silver are buried, and where King Alfred burned the cakes.
British food includes:
Bakewell tart, malt loaf. Cadbury's chocolates. Quality Street chocolates. Scones. Mrs Beeton recipe book. Fray Bentos tinned steak and kidney pudding. Marks & Spencers thick cut marmalade. Ginger in syrup in glass jars from supermarkets.
Harrods goods with their symbol. Toby jugs. Wedgwood crockery. (All cheaper in the January sales - which often start online as early as Boxing Day, Dec 26, or even Christmas Day, Dec 25.)
Diabetic and gluten free goods from pharmacies.
Kosher and halal goods from supermarkets and speciality grocers.
Large numbers of Chinese and Indian (mainly Pakistani and North Indian) restaurants, some vegetarian restaurants. Indian sarees and items from areas such as Southall in London. Bit Chinese mall on the Edgware Road in London.
Numerous art galleries and museums and stately homes have shops. Sherlock Holmes items from their shop near baker street station.
UK flag mask
Winter Novelties
Paperweights which show falling snow when turned upside down.
Travel Novelties
You can buy a suitcase, a suitcase set, or suitcase cover with pictures of the UK, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, or the words New York.
I bought a cover to cover a scruffy suitcase. The cover prevented me from reaching into the outside pocket which was a nuisance. However, you might find it adds security by preventing things from falling out or to stop petty pilferage.
Gifts From Scotland
Loch Ness Monster
Scottish shortbread biscuits
Tartan hat or kilt, tee-shirt or teddy bear toys or key rings wearing tartan kilts and hats .
Whisky
Gifts From Wales
Welsh cakes
Welsh love spoons
Tee towels with words of Welsh or Welsh recipes
Gifts from Ireland
Aran sweaters
Items in green and with four leaf clover motifs
Personalize
Personalized with your surname in the middle, Monopoly, ordered from Selfridges.
Looking for a bargain?
Lidl, the low price German supermarket in London, England, before Xmas sells stollen bites from Germany.
Hanukah theme gifts will be reduced price after the end of hanukah, widely sold in London UK supermarkets, Jewish delis and shops, and the USA bargain stores.
After Christmas you can stock up on Christmas theme items for next year.
Soon to come, more ideas for you.
Classic companies in the UK include department stores Hamleys, Selfridges, Harrods, Marks & Spencer, Tesco.
Classic chocolates are Cadbury's, Thorntons, After Eight, Hotel Chocolat, Terry's.
Classic flags are the Union Jack, flags of Scotland, Wales, and Eire, the USA, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, England, Football teams.
Classic US authors include Dickens, the Brontes, Jane Austen.
Classic US authors include Edgar Allen Poe.
Classic Christian gifts are from churches and cathedrals.
Classic Jewish gifts are from synagogues and Jewish gift shops and Jewish museums.
Travel Diaries
Cheap Travel Diary For Children
If you cannot travel, you can cut out or print pictures for a wishlist. Or start collecting stamps. I remember as a child seeing pagodas and Ankor Wat. When I finally reached Ankor Wat, at retirement age, it exceeded my expectations, and it was not the only building in that style but one of many. Also, by then it was not remote and eerie, but surrounded by sellers of postcards and drinks and even restaurants in huts and one storey wooden buildings.
Finally, there's the KrisFlyer shop.
Useful Websites
Child's union Jack cap
https://www.english-heritageshop.org.uk/
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/things-to-do/shop/
https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/
https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/
https://www.theirishstore.com/irish-gifts
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Traditional_foods_of_the_United_Kingdom
Tee shirts with Union Jacks on ebay
https://www.facebook.com/KrisShop/
About the Author
About the author of this blog
About the Author of this blog, Author Angela Lansbury
BIOGRAPHY
Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5
The Author of several books, including: Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.
Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com
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Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President
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Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;
Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;
Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.
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Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.
Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.
Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.
Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.
Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.
Language and speech workshops in Singapore.
Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.
Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.
Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.
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