Help! You need something individual in a hurry that won’t break the bank and that will arrive in time for Christmas.

Buyagift may well have what you need. Here’s a look at its top 10 seasonal sellers, as inspiration for your own gift dilemmas:

• Go Ape! 2 for 1 Offer - was £58, now £29. An award-winning high-wire forest adventure course with a network of rope bridges, trapezes and zip slides, all set high up in the tree tops.
• Adult tour of Stamford Bridge for two - was £29, now £16. Visit the home of the 2004/05 and 2005/06 Barclays Premiership Champions and retrace the steps of John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba.
• Ferrari Thrill - was £125, now £75. Drive a classic Ferrari at a top track for an incredible price.
• Aston Martin Thrill - was £125, now £99. Favourite of secret agents and footballers alike, the awesome Aston Martin awaits!
• Discount harness sphereing for two - was £59, now £45. Try out this incredible adrenaline experience at a great price for weekdays in April and May 2008.
• Indoor skydiving - was £49, now £29. An incredible price - the must have gift for every adrenaline fan.
• Health club day pass for two - £20. Take a day out for some fun and relaxation at a top health club.
• Audi R8 Thrill - £99. Drive the car everyone is talking about, the sensational new Audi R8.
• Single Seater Experience - was £159, now £75. Experience the thrill, sensation and speed of driving a racing-spec single seater.
• Segway Rally Race 2 for 1 - was £99, now £49. Have a go at this entirely new and unique gift experience

Last posting dates: Buyagift will despatch items by first class Royal Mail up to 11am Sat 22nd Dec. However, the retailer advises you to order by Thursday December 20 to receive gifts in time for Christmas.

Orders are being taken up to 11am on Saturday December 22 for guaranteed next-day delivery and should be delivered by 1pm on Monday December 24.

For last-minute orders, customers can print a temporary voucher from its website.

And watch this space for news about its January sale… including a discount code…

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EIL.com is the world’s biggest online music store with a huge range of new, rare and collectable CDs, vinyl records, music DVDs, clothing, limited editions, imports and music memorabilia from the around the world.

It’s a super place to shop for your Christmas presents - and now it’s just got better. This retailer is offering free delivery on anything, anywhere. That’s right, no quibbles: it applyes to any order of any value to anywhere in the world.

Of course, if you’re a music fan or buying for one, you can’t do better than talk to people who just happen to be music fanatics themselves with more than 20 years’ experience in the business. Plus an unrivalled team of global buyers sourcing items that no one else can unearth. They also promise impeccable customer service, a commitment to quality and a 100 per cent guarantee.

With more than 500,000 items available there is something for all music lovers, from the latest release at £4.99 to a five-figure piece of musical history.

If all this sounds good, then get yourself along and check out everything the site has to offer, including a buyers’ blog and discussion communities.

Enjoy!

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The best Christmas ads ever

The festive blockbuster was a trend that began more than a quarter of a century ago with the all-singing, all dancing ‘The wonder of Woolies’ and has remained an annual fixture since. From the funny to the poignant, Richard Gillis picks the best. Watch the videos here…

* Have they got it right? Or are there classics missing - oh-so-knowing offerings from Ferrero Rocher, for example? Leave a comment and let us know your view.

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A Quarter Of sells fantastic retro sweets and other delicious treats. Naturally they’ve got a super range for Christmas, much of which comes in great gift boxes. It’s a great way to solve your present problems - and definitely to treat yourself as well. So what’s on offer?

• Decade Boxes. The folks at A Quarter Of have been hard at work tracking down the sweets that were around in the 50s, 60s and 70s for the perfect nostalgic gift. There’s a gift box for each decade containing the cream of the crop. Those they still make, that is. Don’t worry, they’re not actually trying to sell you 40-year-old sweets…
• Authentic Turkish Delight. The retailers are so impressed with this it’s a wonder they’re selling it and not just eating it themselves. Sourced direct from Turkey it comes in all sorts of wonderful flavours including lemon, hazelnut, pistachio, coconut and chocolate. As well as Turkish Delight you can sample Pasha Delight, Sultan Delight or Rolls with each coming in an elaborate gift box.
• Fabulous Fudge. When someone promises you this, they had better be right. And A Quarter of are very, very picky about their fudge, so if they say it’s fabulous, yu’d better believe it. They say: “We’ve been trying to get this particular fudge maker to supply us for ages… and finally we’ve managed it. And when you taste it you’ll know why we were so keen.” Flavours include Vanilla Pod, Maple and Walnut, Heavenly Chocolate and, wait for it, Chilli Chocolate. It comes gift boxed in stripy boxes.
• Christmas Stockings. This retailer’s success story of the year. Made specially, and crammed full of the best retro and seasonal sweets ever, they come in a limited edition so you’ll have to be quick.
• Wooden Boxes of Festive Fun Small, medium and large wooden boxes jam-packed with the best mix of seasonal and retro Sweets imaginable from little foil-wrapped chocolate santas, snowmen and Christmas puddings to fizzy cola bottles, chocolate champagne bottles and drumsticks… sweet heaven!

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There are low prices on everything from illuminated rubber ducks and pillows that sing to you to antigravity boots and a desktop USB fridge. Get yourself along!

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But what if you’ve got the opposite problem? Let’s imagine for a moment that you’ve got money to burn but are short of ideas for the perfect ridiculously extravagant luxury gift.

That’s where the Robb Report comes in. According to the Daily Telegraph, it’s what the super-rich consult when they just can’t alight on the right idea:

Gift ideas for the haves and have yachts

The most expensive recommendation is a custom-made 459ft six-storey “giga-yacht” - the humble mega-yacht is evidently so last century - which the British firm Rainsford Saunders will produce for a price starting at $250 million (£122 million).

For the speed demon in your life, $1 million will give them the chance to drive seven supercars on seven racetracks in seven countries in seven days, beginning at Silverstone.

A rather more hair-raising $16 million buys a spin in a Formula 1 Ferrari alongside the former British world champion Damon Hill, two VIP passes to all 2008/9 F1 races, pit area access and dinner with Grand Prix winners. Read full article here…

We almost wish this was a Christmas shopping dilemma that we had…

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Here’s an excellent piece of seasonal goodwill from Firebox - home of all manner of weird and wonderful things to brighten up your home or desk.

The retailer is offering MyBrilliantWeekend readers £5 off all purchases - no minumum spend required.

In order to collect yours, visit this page and enter your email address. The voucher will be sent to you.

Then you’ve got until December 31 to spend it. Simple!

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Activity Gifts does just what its name suggests - helps you and your loved ones live your dreams of driving a tank, racing a rally car, sky-diving into a wind-tunnel or more than 100 other wild and wonderful experiences.

And it’s not just dashing about - you can spend a weekend being pampered at a top health spa, or give this experience as the ultimate Christmas gift.

To tempt you even more this retailer is offering free standard delivery to the UK on all Activity Gifts purchases during December.

Just enter the code FP07 at the checkout. And if guaranteed next day delivery is required the very same code will net you a discount from £10 to £5.

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IWantOneOfThose.com, the home of cool gadgets, silly toys and a hundred and one other highly-desirable things, has let us know what its top 10 seasonal sellers are right now. What better way to solve your present problems?

Here they are:

• Rhythm Sticks - drumsticks that don’t need a drum. Each one has a speaker in its base and, when you hit the air with them, they make a great drum sound.
• Cat’s Arse Sharpener - it’s a cat, you stick your pencil in its derrière, it meows and it sharpens your pencil. In its own litter tray to catch your pencil shavings.
• PicooZ Micro Helicopter - this gnat of a flying machine is the smallest and lightest radio-controlled helicopter in the world. Also astonishingly easy to fly.
• Hot Hand Warmer - Warm up your cold bits at the click of a switch. The pack does some nifty chemical reaction stuff, solidifies and heats up - bingo. Boil them in water and they re-liquify.
• Emergency Phone Charger - simply pop in an AA battery and plug it into your phone for an extra two hours’ talk time. Will also charge up any iPod.
• Craptrumps - Just like Top Trumps, only better. Instead of the cool and classic cars adorning the original cards Craptrumps is all about the really rubbish cars we all actually drive.
• Sudoku Loo Roll - When are we sitting down alone, with our hands free and nothing too taxing to do with our brains? You can see where this is going…
• Flying Monkey - Where evolution failed, this monkey has succeeded, whether or not that is a good thing remains to be seen.
• Colour Phasing Sphere - phases deliciously slowly through a spectrum of soft mixed colours, spreading a moody and mesmerising glow round the room.
• Lavalamp Phone Charm - Replicating the iconic Mathmos Lava Lamp from the 60s, but on a somewhat more diminutive and Lilliputian scale.

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• Freixenet Cordon Negro NV - one of the world’s most famous sparkling wines, this is the benchmark against which all Cava is judged. Extremely fresh with a good balance of fruit, displaying the classic characteristics of its traditional grape varieties. Origin: Spain. Price: £7.49 per bottle, or buy two bottles and save 33 per cent.
• Casillero del Diablo Sauvignon Blanc 2007 Central Valley - flaxen gold in colour, showing notes of elderflower and ripe citrus fruits. Elegant and well-rounded on the palate, balanced by crisp lemon and gooseberry flavours and refreshing acidity. Origin: Chile. Price: £4.99 per bottle, or buy any two Chilean wines save 20 per cent.
• Rioja Crianza 2004 Marqués de la Concordia - produced from 100 per cent Tempranillo, this dark ruby-coloured Crianza shows ripe berry fruit aromas, particularly strawberries, well-balanced on the palate by the vanilla and spice flavours coming from the 18 months spent aging in new French and American oak. Origin: Spain. Price: £7.99 per bottle, or buy two bottles and save £7.

A couple of other things to check out just while you’re on the Majestic website:

• More Christmas party wines
• Majestic’s gift solutions

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