Especially anyone involved in H&S!

I want my senior management, to think outside of their office, and welcome to the world of H & S, not just concentrate on production,

Just time off and a rest will be nice. 2 or 3 Kindle ebooks and a bottle of Auchentoshan would be nice. I have two expensive teenagers to fund so I have lowered my expectations considerably.

Completely agree with Alan.

A chainsaw to cut up logs for my new woodburner, also good for taking out my frustration and as its not for work no RA etc required.

A Job would be nice. Walker :- Like it, but I wouldn't want Bankers to feel left out !

How you going to insure it Mr Fibble Clairel and I have already won the lottery!

Peace on Earth and goodwill to all Or.... A White Audi R8 Spyder. Either or, I'm easy.

The London Marathon place I failed to get. I'd struggle to raise enough for a charity place so that was a none starter.

A nice new Boardman or Specialized Rock Hopper as my old trek is getting a bit like me - old and tired and struggling on the uphills

I spoke too soon, I have just come out off a 2 hour meeting with senior management and have lost the will to live!! A shot gun please!!!

I would like an Apple I pad 2, an AUDI A3, a bottle of Jack Daniels, oh yes Xmas wouldnt be the same without new slippers, nothing much really,

Safety shoes aren't an 'elf' issue, they're a safety issue!

Amen! Or failing that, the kind of politician that reads a "science-based, evidence-based and risk-based" review by an independent expert with no UK ties and then has the courage to admit that they got it wrong and significant changes are not required to the current system.

Though this topic is intended mainly as a piece of traditional Friday fun on this forum, the references above to politicians prompt me to mention that in September this year some UK politicians, namely members of the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee, published a report “Practical experiments in school science lessons and science field trips”. The report includes the fact that the Committee are concerned that UK school pupils are not receiving the practical science education necessary to produce the next generation of scientists. It also thinks that “health and safety” is misused as a convenient excuse for avoiding practicals and work outside the classroom, and that other more fundamental reasons explain why many school pupils/students receive poor practical science education. The report can be seen at http://www.publications..../cmsctech/1060/1060i.pdf In my opinion the report makes good reading and comprises a welcome ray of hope and sanity if its contents are suitably publicised and heeded. However, one aspect of the report which puzzles me is that a visit by a school group to a science type museum is apparently classed as a "field trip". Perhaps things have changed over the years, but my experience of geology and geomorphology while at school and then college in the 1970s was that field trips meant practical observation, measurement and/or sampling activities out of doors, and sometimes in remote locations!

I wish Santa would convince my doctor and my wife that whisky is a health drink ; full of vitamins and nutrients, good for what ails you. (I promise to leave him or her a tot under the Xmas tree) (small one) Merv