So JU, I am calling on your knowledge to help me. Please! My Pop is 80 next month. My sisters and I would really like to get him a special gift to show him how loved and appreciated he is. Something that he will enjoy, and most importantly use. I have lost count of the crap gifts we have bought him over the years, that at the time we thought he would appreciate, only to find it stuffed in a cupboard somewhere several months later. This time I want to get him something that means something. That he will appreciate, and be blown away by. This is where my problem starts. What the hell is THAT? Well folks, I am at a loss. I don’t have a clue where to start.

To be fair I don’t really know what makes an 80 year old tick. My Pop is into all things historical…..wars are a special favourite of his. However, we have killed that gift to death. We’ve bought him weekends away to historical landmarks, books, dvds. You name it, he’s had it. That simply won’t do this time. We need to go one step better.

I love my Grumpa Lumps greatly. I don’t get to spend as much time with them as I would like, these days. That is something I feel really guilty about. I try and spend as much time with them as I can, but life seems to get in the way somehow. I think maybe the greatest gift I could give him is my time. That should not be a gift though.

So JU, please help me rock my Pops world.