My birthday is on the 16th November. I will be 54.
My address for deliveries is:
Flat 2
47 Winchcombe Street
CHELTENHAM
GL52 2NE
My phone number if they need it is 07729 255280
Some online shops will offer "click and collect" or similar addresses. If they do, please check whether "Winchcombe Food and Wine" (46 Winchcombe Street) is offered as an option, and if it is please use that address.
Dan Beale-Cocks
C/O Winchcombe Food and Wine
46 Winchcombe Street
CHELTENHAM
GL52 2ND
Any gifts would be lovely, thank you! Surprises are fine.
Here's a few suggestions if you're stuck for ideas. This list is supposed to reduce stress, so if you're finding it's increasing stress please do ignore it! Obviously do not buy everything on the list! The list contains a mix of big items that you'd club together to buy, and smaller items that you'd buy individually. For some of these I've done research and I would like the specific item (and I will say that), and for other stuff I'm just giving examples and hints.
Any surprises are lovely, thank you. Not fish or shellfish though please. Not brocolli. Not flavoured chocolate please. I'm avoiding plastics in clothing. If you buy clothing I am size XXL or larger (XXL fits, XL does not fit, it is too small, XXXL is more comfortable than XXL. My collar size is 17.5" or bigger, and trousers need to be 42" waist (with something like 33" inside leg). I only read short fiction. Human rights are more important to me than environmental claims.
I'd love some nice quality t-shirts. I need big shirts, so 2XL minimum please. 3XL would be better if those are available. If it has a pocket that'd be great, and if it has a v neck that'd be great too. I do not need t-shirts with logos, patterns, prints, etc. Example brands would be Rapanui's longline tshirts in 2XL and black, or Plain and Simple seem to have a bunch of suitable product. It's a bit spendy. This t-shirt in 9/EXL and in ruby red or ink blue would be very lovely please but it is ridiculously spendy.
I'd like a really well made, ethically made, heavy duty, enormous (XXXL if possible) zip up hoodie. Preferably plain as possible (no prints or logos). Dark colours (blue, gray, black, burgundy). And 100% cotton. Or I'd like this hoodie from Rapanui, in blue and XXL.
I'd love some short sleeve, 100% cotton or linen, shirts. I need 17.5" collar size or size 2XL please. Anything else is going to be too small. Not stripes please, and no long sleeves please.
In hospital I spent a lot of time in gowns and while gowns have some disadvantages I really like the concept. I think nightshirts would be great. They have to be 100% cotton. I prefer minimal pattern. I prefer longer. They have to be 2xl or larger. Here's some examples, but anything that's pure cotton and 2xl is fine. EBay, Hollands Country Clothing.
I'd like a pepper mill please. (I do not need and would not use a salt mill.) Peugot Saveurs do some excellent pepper mills. I like the Tahiti range, in brick red or midnight blue. I also like the natural wood Paris version.
I also like some of the Cole and Mason grinders. The Marlow pepper mill in acacia is lovely. Or the Beech capstan in light beech at 165mm is good too.
I'm not sure what I need. I want to make cold, iced, lattes. I don't know if I need a moka pot, or some other device. I'll let you choose.
I'd like a small (1 cup or 2 cup) induction-ready moka coffee pot. Here's one example, but any brand is fine. Smaller is better, and it has to work on induction. I feel like I'm probably not going to get much use from a 4 cup or bigger pot, but maybe I can make coffee in bulk and keep it in the fridge? Cheaper is also very good too. This is something that I'm struggling to find good examples of - I don't think anyone makes a 1 cup moka pot. And I don't think there are many 2 cup pots that work on induction. Any colour is fine - I like nice bright cheerful blues, yellows, oranges, reds over earthy sombre browns, blues, greens. (So, deep indigo blue is good because that's a solid pop. It's not the darkness, but the sombreness that I want to avoid.)
OR an aeropress would be good I think. I've never used one, but I think it'd be good for what I want.
I want to make coffee for cold / iced decaff coffee, so if you know something that will be better let me know.
A salad spinner would be good. I like the brands Zylis, OXO, and Kuhn Rikon. I don't need a massive spinner and I don't have much cupboard space. Here's a link to Zyliss, here's a link to OXO, and here's a link to Kuhn Rikon.
Tea towels would be good. Cheap, 100% cotton. These tea towels or these tea towels.
I'd like a black iron / carbon steel pan (not a cast iron pan!) please. Here are two examples. I think these are also on eBay too. This pan or this pan.
I'd like this particular colander. Any size is fine. ZWILLING 16 cm colander.
High end (eg, Michel Cluizal) plain or any milk chocolate would be a lovely treat please. I do not enjoy flavoured chocolate (nuts are ok, but nothing else.), and I'm less interested in super high cocoa content, more interested in good quality nice chocolate. I'd be especially keen on anything that has genuine human rights record.
I also like wafer chocolate bars. In England I buy these from a Polski Sklep. So if you go through the pages on this site I'd like one each of any wafer bar they do. (Not the big bags though, because I'd just eat all of them in one go.)
I drink a lot of fizzy pop, so any sugar free drinks (especially without caffeine) would be great. These are heavy, and they're not sold in my local shop - I have to go to the edge of town big shops. So buying a load of these for delivery would be really cool. I don't like drinks with grapefruit in.
And if you're doing a Tesco shop it would be handy if you bought some tins of every Tesco own brand soup (not fish though), and tinned beans (like butter beans or kidney beans, not baked beans) and a bunch of other tinned food like tinned rice pudding etc.
The skin around my stoma grows hair, and it's a good idea to trim (but not shave) it away. I'd like a small, cheap, trimmer just to buzz off those hairs about once a fortnight. So, it's not going to get much use, it doesn't have to be super robust, but it would be handy. Cheap is important here, because this is semi-disposable because it's for use near my stoma.
This CD Sampler has a version of Picforth's In Nomine a 5 that's very difficult to get from other sources. There are different versions of the piece, but this is the version I like. Assorted Images: Virgin Classics Compact Disc Sampler
Or you could buy the disc that the sampler is advertising, which is this one: Armada - Music from the Courts of PhilipII and ElizabethI