| Lucky you.You have reached the ripe old age of 60 | | | | these wild and carefree people, bear in mind that |
| without taking too much of a battering. You are still | | | | beneath that mop of grey hair and behind those thick |
| in good shape, take care of yourself with healthy | | | | lensed specs are a pair of twinkling and mischievous |
| eating and a bit of light exercise, and you feel more | | | | eyes and a lust for excitement. By their age they |
| energised and up for it than you ever remember | | | | have probably developed a taste for the fine things |
| doing in the past. | | | | in life, good food and great wine. |
| Maybe it is because so many people have fallen by | | | | A lovely 60th birthday gift for the recipient is a Wine |
| the wayside before they reached the 60 mark, but | | | | Tasting Day at a Vineyard for Two, in an English |
| you really should pat yourself on the back and say a | | | | region, where they can discover the ins and outs of |
| big 'well done for getting this far'. It certainly isn't | | | | making a good quality wine. They will also get the |
| over yet, far from it. Life may have begun at 40, but | | | | chance to taste a few wines straight from the barrel |
| freedom begins at 60, especially if you have just | | | | as well as some vintage wine tasting too. This 60th |
| taken or are about to take retirement. | | | | birthday gift includes a delicious buffet lunch for two, |
| Many people these days are opting to postpone their | | | | and they can take their complimentary bottle of wine |
| retirement until they are older, just because they feel | | | | home with them to enjoy together. |
| so young and still have the energy to carry on | | | | With all that spare time on their hands,a new hobby |
| working. This is because being 60 no longer means | | | | or interest may inspire them. The Family History Gift |
| that you are old, passed it and had your day. These | | | | Box makes a brilliant 60th birthday gift. It gives the |
| days, reaching 60 means that you can choose the | | | | history behind their surname as well as guidance in |
| liberation that retirement offers, and you will find | | | | beginning to trace their own family tree. Genealogy is |
| suddenly that all that spare time that you have been | | | | one of the most popular pastimes in the UK these |
| yearning for ever since you became a fully paid up | | | | days and everyone is eager to discover their roots. |
| member of the rat race, is now yours to do with as | | | | It offers the researcher wonderful excuses for |
| you wish. | | | | travelling around the country, rummaging through |
| Gone are the days when retirement and being 60 | | | | documents in local libraries and visiting some |
| meant taking up knitting in your rocking chair, or | | | | fascinating areas. |
| spending time at the allotment just to get the day | | | | Bearing in mind the fact that the recipient |
| out of the way. And bowling is no longer the fashion | | | | experienced the innovative and wild times of the |
| for over 60s that it used to be, what with it being | | | | 1960s, a really challenging 60th birthday gifts is a Clay |
| infiltrated by the bright young things. 60 year olds are | | | | Shooting Gift Pack, offering the recipient the chance |
| jet setters, hopping on planes for weekends abroad, | | | | to discover yet another great hobby. With 50 shots |
| disappearing for overnight stays in a country hotel. | | | | and clays, this is such fun and does not require a lot |
| They are never at home when you phone them up, | | | | of running around to get the adrenalin rushing through |
| always out and about doing something new. 60 year | | | | the veins. But for the ultimate in excitement and a |
| olds were young adults in the swinging 1960s. | | | | totally unique experience, a truly exhilarating 60th |
| Just think of all the wild things they got up to that | | | | birthday gift, and one that will definitely be |
| they really knew they shouldn't. Peace, love and | | | | remembered even when the marbles are going, is a |
| political protests were their groove, man. They were | | | | Shadow a Big Cat Keeper experience day. This 4 |
| the ones who advocated free love, burning their | | | | hour experience enables you to participate in caring |
| bras, pursuing Women's Lib issues, wearing those | | | | for the big cats at an enclosure, doing all the day to |
| groovy bell bottoms, and so much more. | | | | day things with the big cat keeper, such as mucking |
| Now,doesn't that make you think of 60 year olds in a | | | | out the living quarters and preparing the lions', tigers', |
| totally different way? If they could do it way back | | | | cheetahs' and other hungry pussycats' din dins for |
| when, they have probably still got it in them to do it | | | | them. This 60 year old will never look at the family |
| all over again. Once a rebel, always a rebel. | | | | cat in the same way again, but what a thrill this 60th |
| So,when thinking of what 60th birthday gifts to buy | | | | birthday gifts will give them. |