Farewell present

[amarillis]

Help! I have to get a farewell present for a couple of good friends in their 30s who are moving away from the area they've lived in for about 15 years. Any ideas?

[snuggles]

I tell you what's a really nice idea, and personal to boot: get a nice scrap book (or similar) put some photos in it of you/them, do some doodles...write some poems, etc...then, put in your friends names on t'internet and print off some of the people it comes up with. It sounds really cr8p, doesn't it??? But it's very funny and it's a lovely personal thing to do for someone. :o)

[FP]

Something similar to Snuggles idea.  Take a nice picture of their house and get it enlarged. Mount the photo on a piece of good quality card leaving a nice wide border.  Get all the friends and neighbours you can to sign their names and put a small greeting in the border.  Put the whole thing in a really nice frame.

[ICEMANSAV]

Following on from those two fantastic ideas you could get them an aerial photograph of their house with a plaque with a inscription mounted inside the frame saying something nice about them.

[Robinia]

Are they keen gardeners?  If so, then after 15 years they probably have a treasured shrub or tree that's too big to move with them. You could buy them one of the same that's transportable to start off their new garden with a memory of the old one.

[snuggles]

they are all fantastic ideas....doing something personal like that is far more precious than "buying" a gift. We are such nice people on here!!

[amarillis]

Thanks everyone, they are all great suggestions. The gardening suggestion is brilliant, they have an excellent garden and are very sad to be leaving it.

[Robinia]

So glad you liked my suggestion because it's what I would like most if I had to leave my lovely garden behind.