Best Christmas gift ideas for Mum

Show your Mum you love her with everything from Poldark to Polaroid

Published: Monday, 11 December 2017 at 12:08 pm

It's Christmas, and it's your Mum, so for once in your miserable life show some gratitude and buy her something she might actually like. She's a human woman with her own interests, from photography to Aidan Turner. Take a bit of time, go over our list, and have a think before you give her yet another box of Ferrero Rocher.

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Poldark: Complete Series 1-3 (£30)

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Because Aidan Turner.


Broadchurch: Complete Series 1-3 (£25)

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Because Mums love depressing dramas where kids go missing.


Polaroid Onestep 2 (£110)

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Your Mum still loves physical photo albums and, once Facebook starts digitally animating old photos of your friends to advertise Diet Coke, you will too.


Google Home Mini (£49)

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Google’s version of housebound AI is by far the most stylish and easiest to talk to.


Harrods Wine Hamper (£100)

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Because wine in a basket.


Dubonnet (£30)

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The Queen’s favourite tipple: mix one part gin to two parts of this sweet and bitter fortified wine, serve over ice with a twist. The perfect accompaniment to a binge watch of The Crown.


Apple TV 4K (£179)

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Speaking of, there are lots of ways to watch The Crown, but Apple is officially the most Mum-Usable Tech Company.


Un Air de Diptyque Electric Diffuser (£240)

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Scented candles are all very well, but they burn out eventually. This handsome diffuser from Diptyque can has a range of replacement scents to try, and won’t set fire to the house.


High Tea at Downton Abbey (£120/person)

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A tour and tea at the most famous fictional estate since Brideshead.


Sony MDR-1000X Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones (£260)

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Incredibly comfortable and pretty stylish too.

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