Guys my dad's 68th birthday is coming up AND he's retiring.

[barkingstars@toot.community]

@Gina For anyone handy it can be difficult to recommend tools because they can be super opinionated about them. But…
I really like this Wera ratchet screwdriver and use it all the time. It’s very high quality, feels good in the hand, and because it’s quite expensive it is the sort of thing someone might not buy for themselves. https://www.diy.com/departments/wera-05073660001-kraftform-kompakt-27-ra-1-sb-ratchet-6-bits-wer073660/4013288156051_BQ.prd

[joface@mastodon.scot]

@Gina My dad's 80 and been having fun with models like this 🙂
https://www.robotimeonline.com/en-gb/products/rokr-marble-travel-london-marble-run-wooden-3d-puzzle-egb01

[lalalasombra@chaos.social]

@Gina An acoustic guitar + lessons, a puppy, or carpentry lessons? 🙂

[danhugo@fosstodon.org]

@Gina

Handy?

https://www.lego.com

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@lalalasombra these are all things I want 😂

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@danhugo RIP my bank account 💸💸

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@stibbons putting that on my own birthday list. ✅️

[urig@mastodon.online]

@Gina learning a new language in group lessons worked nicely for my dad. Socially and intellectually empowering.

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@urig @Gina It's a lot of fun teaching older people a language. They really don't care about mistakes

[urig@mastodon.online]

@humanhorseshoes @Gina not my dad. He cared a lot about mistakes but had a knack for languages and soldered on. He learned Italian because of a nostalgia for 50's canzoni :)

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@urig @Gina What I meant is they aren't embarrassed by them, my oldest beginners were from Ukraine and Kazakhstan

[urig@mastodon.online]

@humanhorseshoes very cool. Which language(s) did you teach?

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@urig I teach English to speakers of Russian but have stopped now

[jaf@fosstodon.org]

@Gina In our case, it were grandchildren who helped combat boredom.