The northlondonhippy

Do you need some cool gifts for some cool peo­ple? This hippy is here to help!

Xmas is less than 2 weeks away and if you haven’t fin­ished your hol­i­day gift shop­ping, then you are just like every­one else! But you’ve got some­thing they haven’t got…a cer­tain north London-based hippy with a ques­tion­able char­ac­ter. I’ve got a few sug­ges­tions to help you out.

I find xmas stress­ful, every­thing is busier, peo­ple are ruder and noth­ing pisses me off more than queue­ing up to spend my hard earned money.

Let me share a tale with you from last Saturday.…

Last Sat­ur­day after­noon, I made the rather unfor­tu­nate mis­take of vis­it­ing my local super­mar­ket in my car. It’s a large chain super­mar­ket, with a large car park. I needed to pick up a few things and didn’t have a choice.

When I arrived at the super­mar­ket, I noticed the queue of cars depart­ing, but didn’t really think too much of it. The car park was quite full, but I man­aged to find a space with­out any stress. I decided to abbre­vi­ate my shop­ping list, grabbed a hand bas­ket and swept through the shop quite quickly. I even found a till with no one wait­ing and was checked out in record time. And then the real fun began.

I returned to my car to dis­cover the car park had filled up even more and the queue of depart­ing cars stretched to the very end of the car park. It took me around 10 min­utes just to get out of my space, because of being blocked by other pass­ing cars, arriv­ing or departing.

After get­ting out of my space, I joined the queue of depart­ing cars, head­ing towards the exit and that’s when the real fun began. The line of traf­fic was barely mov­ing and after 15–20 min­utes, I phoned Mrs. H to warn her I would be a bit later than I expected.

After 30 min­utes of not mov­ing, other peo­ple were start­ing to get rest­less and I began to see exam­ples of road-rage, or rather, car-park rage. Cars, were try­ing to cut into the queue of cars head­ing for the exit, oth­ers were try­ing to merge from unex­pected direc­tions. Then cars arriv­ing, started queu­ing up for lim­ited park­ing spaces, cut­ting off depart­ing cars and allow­ing merg­ing cars to jump in front. It was total car-park chaos!

Being the resource sort and main­tain­ing my calm through the reg­u­lar inges­tion of cig­a­rettes and choco­lates from my shop­ping, I got the num­ber for the super­mar­ket and rang it from my mobile phone. I asked to speak to the man­ager, iden­ti­fy­ing myself as a cus­tomer trapped out­side in my car. After a few min­utes wait­ing, I was con­nected to the duty man­ager and I explained the predica­ment fac­ing his val­ued cus­tomers just out­side the doors of his shop. He was sym­pa­thetic, but blamed the local coun­cil for not allow­ing them to build more access to the car park. That was hardly going to help me out at 2pm on a Sat­ur­day after­noon, 2 weeks before xmas!

The man­ager sug­gested I phone the local police sta­tion, which I was only too happy to do. After get­ting passed the first oper­a­tor, I was con­nected to the despatch desk at the local nick and I again explained the sit­u­a­tion, point­ing out the it could eas­ily turn nasty and as well as near acci­dents with cars, I’d seen a cou­ple of dri­vers leap out of their vehi­cles and nearly trade blows. The despatcher took my details and said she would send some offi­cers as soon as pos­si­ble. I didn’t see any before I left, around AN HOUR LATER!

Yes, I spent 2 hours in the super­mar­ket car park, in my car, in the pour­ing rain. It was absolute hell and I wouldn’t wish an expe­ri­ence like this on any one, ever!

Which brings me to my main point, which is this…if you can, do all of your shop­ping online! Every­thing I’m going to sug­gest is avail­able on the inter­net, so grab your credit card and get­ting ready to shop!

My top rec­om­men­da­tion this year is an iPod Touch from Apple. I bought one for Mrs. Hippy and we’re both blown away by how good it is. The touch­screen is gor­geous, so user friendly and as I sus­pected, the killer app is def­i­nitely being able to surf the inter­net on it.

It’s actu­ally a very usable, read­able browser and its the first sat­is­fy­ing inter­net expe­ri­ence I’ve ever had on a hand-held device. To put this in per­spec­tive, I’ve surfed on var­i­ous mobile phones and a high-end Palm Pilot and none have come close to this. The iPod Touch found my home net­work, let me put in the pass­word and joined it instantly. The mobile ver­sion of Safari rocks, its fast, respon­sive and ren­ders pages beautifully.

Oh and did I men­tion it plays music? And the video daz­zling too, so is the photo browser. I haven’t hacked it yet, because it’s Mrs. H’s, not mine and I don’t want to end up brick­ing it on her. I’m hold­ing out for a 2nd gen­er­a­tion iPhone, hope­fully that will come in the next few months.

I bought the iPod Touch from Ama­zon, £243 for the 16gb model, which is a real sav­ings com­pared to other retail­ers, but your mileage may vary, so look out for the best deal. Also, don’t leave it too long as its con­sid­ered one of the hot gifts this hol­i­day season.

In gen­eral, I can rec­om­mend Ama­zon, they’re nor­mally very reli­able and they are good with deliv­ery too. I shop with them so much that I signed up for Ama­zon Prime, which costs 50 quid for a year, but in return you get upgraded to next day deliv­ery on every­thing you buy. I usu­ally pay for next day deliv­ery any­way, because of my erratic lifestyle, that way I never miss any­thing. I’ve already placed a few orders with it, so it will pay for itself in no time.

The other online retailer I can rec­om­mend is everyonedoesit.com or EDIT. The adverts you see on my site are from EDIT, as my endorse­ment of them is long­stand­ing. They are also the exclu­sive dis­trib­u­tors of the NLH Deluxe, the bong I designed, made by RooR in Germany.

EDIT stock a wide vari­ety of good­ies, from pipes and bongs to a wide selec­tion of legal highs and one of the best stocks of cannabis seeds on the inter­net. If you like to party, or know some­one who does, they’re cer­tain to have some­thing desirable.

Of course, you can check out the entire shop for your­self RIGHT HERE, I do have a few rec­om­men­da­tions for you.

Check the Bush­mas­ter Dou­ble Bub­blers on this THIS PAGE. I’ve got the mid­night blue one and I can’t rec­om­mend this pipe enough. It’s only 20 quid and its a real bar­gain, pieces this good nor­mally cost lots more.

I cleaned mine out the other day and it reminded me what a use­ful piece of kit the SPACE CASE GRINDER is…I put all my bud through mine and around twice a year, I scrape out the crys­tals inside. You will be amazed how much you can col­lect, if you use it reg­u­larly to break up your weed. And if you think about it, every­thing you’re col­lect­ing, would prob­a­bly just have been lost. I can’t believe every­one doesn’t use one!

I’ve heard lots of peo­ple com­plain­ing about the cost of RooR glass­ware and I won’t deny that some of their pieces are pricey. That said, you get what you pay for and RooR qual­ity is the best you’ll ever find. But if you don’t want to spend a for­tune, here are a bunch of RooR pieces that all cost under 100 pounds, includ­ing one (that I own) that costs under a ten­ner! That means you can give some­one a piece of pure RooR qual­ity, no mat­ter what your bud­get may be!

I’ll start with the CLASSIC THREE PIECE WATER PIPE, which is a piece that I own. It’s a great look­ing water pipe, well con­structed and it smokes so sweetly, you will love every hit!

How about a RooR gift set, includ­ing a RooR bong for only 65 quid? Check out ROOR GIFT SET 5! And check out the rest of the RooR gift sets RIGHT HERE.

And if you want a full sized, proper RooR? No prob­lem, we can still do that for you and here’s 4 mod­els from the RooR red range, with 3.2mm glass, that cost between 85–100 quid! Go on, check ‘em out RIGHT HERE.

And remem­ber, I said there are RooR pieces under a ten­ner? Check out the MINI-STEAMROLLER, for only £5.95. I’ve got one of these too and its my favourite tiny pipe. It’s per­fect for a quick blast, when you need a lit­tle hit to take the edge off life.

But what RooR gift guide from me could ever be com­plete with­out a shame­less plug for my pretty lit­tle baby, the “RooR Cus­tom 5.0 — northlon­don­hippy deluxe” — the best bong in the world! Of course, I’m biased, because I designed it and it car­ries my name, but trust me I’ve smoked out of loads of pipes and noth­ing hits as well as my bong. It costs a bit more than other bongs, but trust some­one who’s smoked out of it a lot now, its worth every god­damn penny! Treat your­self, or treat some­one you love, you won’t be disapppointed!

The best news about all the good­ies I’ve men­tioned from EDIT is that they have it all in stock right now for imme­di­ate ship­ment and that includes the NLH Deluxe! I know the NLH Deluxes have been hard to come by, since the ini­tial ship­ment sold out, but they’ve got ‘em now!

Xmas doesn’t have to be stress­ful. If you can visit my site, then you can visit Ama­zon or EDIT, or any one of a num­ber of sites which will ship things to you quickly. If you can avoid the shops, the malls and the high street, you’ll make your life a lot eas­ier and isn’t that what we all want? Trust me, you don’t want to lose 2 hours of your life in a car park!

I still can’t believe it.

Sit­ting right next to me, on my desk, right now, is the best bong in the world.

I can’t believe it because this bong was made in the famous RooR fac­tory in Ger­many, espe­cially for me.

I can’t believe that this bong was designed to my exact­ing specifications.

I still can’t believe I designed this bong myself. Lit­tle ol’ me!

I can’t believe this bong car­ries my name!

Oh, my dear friends and beloved hip­py­fans, today is indeed an excit­ing day!

Every­one, please have your first look at the “RooR Cus­tom 5.0 — northlon­don­hippy deluxe”

Ain’t she a beauty?

Let me tell you a bit more about my bong, the NLH deluxe, which I can state cat­e­gor­i­cally, is the best bong in the world!

As you might have guessed from the name, my bong is 5mm thick, made of the finest borosil­i­cate glass. Each one is hand-blown by one of the tal­ented arti­sans at RooR.

It stands 35cm high, which for me is the per­fect height for a bong. It makes it very man­age­able to handle.

The main joint is 14.5mm and bistable, for added sta­bil­ity and durability.

The main sec­tion of the bong fea­tures two reduc­tions, for improved grip­pa­bil­ity. It gives the bong its dis­tinc­tive, sexy, curvy look.

The mouth­piece sports a Black Crown and the detail work on this is stun­ning. And the black crown bowl com­pli­ments the mouth­piece perfectly.

Because RooR is one of my favourite brand names in the world, I wanted their logo to be a spe­cial fea­ture as well, which is why I opted for the Flame Pol­ished one. It’s another dis­tinc­tive touch that sep­a­rates my bong from all the rest.

My bong is not just for look­ing at though, it’s meant for smok­ing, which is why, instead of a nor­mal, stock down­tube, every NLH deluxe ships with a fit-to-measure RooR dif­fuser. As the owner of sev­eral RooR pieces, I know that one of the things that makes RooR glass­ware smoke so damn sweet is the dif­fuser. That’s why I’ve got one in my Lit­tle Sista, my Clas­sic 3-piece Water Pipe and now the northlon­don­hippy deluxe! Take just one hit and you will under­stand exactly what I mean!

This bong smokes like a dream. Pack a bowl with your favourite herbal smok­ing mix­ture (mine’s always weed!), touch a flame to it, draw deeply and float off to nirvana.

Quite sim­ply, it’s the bong of my dreams and it could be the bong of your dreams too! That’s right, the NLH deluxe is avail­able to buy. If you want the best bong in the world, you don’t have to dream! You can own one your­self! Here’s how:

First of all, there is only one place in the world you can buy an offi­cial NLH deluxe and that is from my very good friends at EDIT.

EDIT stands for “every­one does it DOT com” and they are eas­ily the biggest and best online head­shop in the world. I’ve per­son­ally been an EDIT cus­tomer for over 4 years and they are fan­tas­tic! From the wide selec­tion of very cool stuff to their impres­sive cus­tomer ser­vice depart­ment, they are an great exam­ple of a first class online shop. And if you order before 4:20pm on a week­day, they will despatch your order that day! So if you dig it online right now, you can be hold­ing it tomorrow…unless tomor­row is Sun­day, but you wouldn’t want the post­man knock­ing early then. You’d want a lie-in!

EDIT are the exclu­sive dis­trib­uters of the NLH deluxe, you can’t buy it any­place else, not even directly from me! EDIT have the mar­ket cor­nered! You can shop with them safely, securely and discreetly.

So there you have it. “The RooR Cus­tom 5.0 — northlon­don­hippy deluxe” isn’t just a dream any­more. It’s real and I’ve got mine. When are you going to get yours?

To buy an NLH deluxe, please CLICK HERE!

Hey ho hip­py­fans! Howsit hangin’?

I’m just mak­ing a quick fly­ing visit to men­tion a cou­ple of quick, web­site related bits of news.

Firstly, you may notice 2 new links on my page; one to my stated com­ment pol­icy and a 2nd one to the NLH deluxe page.

A some of you may know, I had to dis­able the com­ments facil­ity on my site a while back, because of the over­whelm­ing amount of spammed com­ments I was receiv­ing from porn, Via­gra and poker sites. I was receiv­ing around 1000 of the lit­tle fuck­ers each day. This hippy wasn’t down with that shit!

After review­ing the sit­u­a­tion for a num­ber of months, I have finally decided that the com­ment­ing facil­ity will have to remain shut-off per­ma­nently, as I’ve now stated in my newly pub­lished COMMENT POLICY.

I’m not happy about it, you’re not happy about it and I bet the spam­mers are even less happy! Tough shit on the spam­mers, but I would like to apol­o­gise to you, my dear read­ers. Never hes­i­tate to email me though, as I will always, ALWAYS reply!

Now, on to the good news! I received my very own “RooR Cus­tom 5.0 – northlon­don­hippy deluxe” bong a few days ago! It is a com­plete work of art and I love it already!

As you will see, I’ve added a link called “NLH Deluxe” to the main page and once my bong is for sale, you will see that page updated with every­thing you ever wanted to know about the best glass bong in the world! You will also see a ban­ner advert added to my front­page for the “NLH Deluxe” too.

There will be only one place for you to buy my bong and that’s from everyonedoesit.com or EDIT as they are known. They are the exclu­sive dis­trib­u­tors of the “NLH Deluxe” which means this is one bong you can’t buy any­where else!

Each one is made, by hand by one of the arti­sans at the RooR fac­tory in Ger­many, which means the stan­dard of con­struc­tion is amaz­ingly high! It looks great, smokes great and will become your favourite bong ever after just one sweet hit!

Keep watch­ing my page for the big announce­ment of when the bong goes on sale to the gen­eral pub­lic. No one gets a pre­view of what it looks like, until then!

Wait till you see how gor­geous it is! You are going to want one so bad that it hurts!

It’s always inter­est­ing to see what words peo­ple stick into Google and other search engines, which lead them to my hum­ble, lit­tle website.

I receive a wide vari­ety of sta­tis­tics via my web­site hosts, but I always like check­ing out the search-terms sec­tion. It’s always good for a laugh.

This is the cur­rent list, for the month of July, to date, count­ing up from num­ber ten:

10) “north lon­don hip­pie” – my name, spelled wrong, with spaces. I’m glad it still leads to my site and I’m glad peo­ple search for me, even with the mistakes!

9) “billi bhatti” – him off Big Brother, evicted a cou­ple of weeks ago. As you will see, BB names are pop­u­lar on this list.

8) “pur­ple ohms expe­ri­ences” – a cou­ple of years ago, I had a bad time on these pills. I took too many, I had an unpleas­ant expe­ri­ence. They’re legal highs and I think they are still avail­able, now in non-BZP form.

7) “northlon­don­hippy” – now that’s more like it, spelled cor­rectly, with­out spaces. I fea­ture twice in my own top ten, which means my brand aware­ness is high and get­ting higher. Just like me, I’m get­ting higher too, right now…!

6) “RooR Pocket Friend” – a fine pipe from my friends at RooR. I’ve writ­ten about mine a few times. Usu­ally, there are sev­eral RooR-related search terms in the top ten, but when I write about Big Brother, that tends to over­take it. Go figure!

5) “charley uchea tits” – Thus begins the breast obses­sion at the top of the list, nearly all BB related.

4) “vic­to­ria beck­ham top­less” – see, more tits. As if I would post pic­tures of that bean­pole with fake boobs!

3) “chanelle hayes mas­tur­ba­tion” — BB related, but not so breast-centric. Does any­one know if these pic­tures do exist? I wouldn’t post them, but I might like to see them myself, purely for research purposes.

2) “shab­nam paryani top­less” – I don’t really get this one, espe­cially as it is so high up on the list. Do peo­ple really want to see her top­less? I don’t even want to see her clothed! She’s scary!! Peo­ple have very weird tastes and inter­ests, but this is the inter­net, so I shouldn’t be surprised.

1) “expand­ing the­ory” – A while ago, I wrote up a silly lit­tle the­ory about what I thought the effect of the uni­verse con­stantly expand­ing would have on us. I was very high at the time and it was total bollocks.

Google doesn’t seem to think so, for if you put “expand­ing the­ory” into the world’s largest and smartest search engine, this is what you get as your top hit: CLICK HERE

Go on, check it out. My site is the top hit! Read it!

Do you really think I am an expert on the sub­ject? Should I win a Nobel Prize for inno­va­tion in science?

I should very much think not!

I don’t know if you found that inter­est­ing, but as always, I am inter­ested in what you have to say. I’d like to take an infor­mal survey:

Please email me with how you found my site. Did you stum­ble upon me via a search engine? Do you remem­ber what you were search­ing for? Maybe you saw a link to my site? Where?

How­ever you found me, I’d like to know. Please email me at thehippy@northlondonhippy.com — I won’t spam you or give/sell your address to any­one. I don’t even keep a mail­ing list. I’m just nosy.

Who’s a lazy hippy?

Me?

Sort of!

I know it appears that way, what with me not post­ing any­thing in 10 long days. I guess it’s kind of true.

But look, just below this post, is my rather lengthy review of my new Mac­Book and a bit more on the role Apple plays in my life. I said I would do it, promised even and there it is!

I’ve been work­ing on the hippy FAQ as well. It’s not ready just yet, but when it is, I’ll have it added to the site.

And I haven’t for­got­ten about my promise to pro­duce a new “best of the hippy” list of posts. That will come, so all you new hip­py­fans can learn quickly why I am a “mes­siah for a new mil­len­nium” and the “biggest inter­net celebrity you’ve never heard of”.

I really am a “mes­siah for a new mil­len­nium”, you know and I can prove it. Look up at the top of your browser!

But by far, the coolest thing I’ve done in the last week is sort out the brand new, com­ing soon, “RooR Cus­tom 5.0 – northlon­don­hippy deluxe” bong!

Yes, I’ve been threat­en­ing to do it for a long time, but now I’ve actu­ally gone and done it! I’ve designed my very own RooR bong and it will carry my name!

I’ve finally got my legacy!

As the designer, I’m get­ting the very first one, but you, my beloved hip­py­fans will be able to buy my bong too!

The “Cus­tom RooR – northlon­don­hippy deluxe” will be for sale exclu­sively via my part­ners in the ven­ture, www.everyonedoesit.com or EDIT as they are known. The ban­ner adverts on this page will all lead you to EDIT as well. They are my favourite wes­bite and stock a wide vari­ety of prod­ucts that cool peo­ple like you and me dig!

EDIT already have one of the biggest and best selec­tions RooR prod­ucts on the planet, they also have one of the biggest and best cannabis seed banks in Europe. Legal highs – they’ve got ‘em, rolling papers? More than you’ve ever seen! Pipes, stash boxes, you name it. Have a look; I can’t rec­om­mend them enough! And I shop with them a lot, myself!

I’ve had some very high-level nego­ti­a­tions to pull off this hippy-bong-coup. Thanks to Ben at EDIT and Neal, the MD, we man­aged to visit the nor­mally, high-security and secre­tive RooR fac­tory in Ger­many to sort out the par­tic­u­lars of this major busi­ness deal.

It was awfully good of EDIT to let us use their cor­po­rate jet, because I hate fly­ing commercial!

The RooR guys were cool, they really know their glass, but as the best man­u­fac­tur­ers of glass bongs and pipes in the world, the bet­ter do!

The design team were very demand­ing and wanted me to jus­tify each and every choice I made. In the end, they all saw the ele­gance, sophis­ti­ca­tion and beauty of the “northlon­don­hippy deluxe” and they signed off on the sketches.

I’m not going to tell you any­thing about the actual design of the bong, not now any­way. Though you might have worked out already that it’s going to be 5.0mm thick. The rest will be revealed when I post the first pic­tures of the bong, the same time it goes up for sale on EDIT.

Start sav­ing your pen­nies, kids! The “northlon­don­hippy deluxe” will be the best bong in the world! As soon as you see it, you’re going to want to buy one for your own bad selves!

Greet­ings, my friends; I hope life is treat­ing you excep­tion­ally well.

It hasn’t been a great week for me, but rather than dwell on the bleak and dreary, I’d rather share some­thing more pos­i­tive with you…

I bought one of these this week:

It’s from my friends at EDIT and you can see the prod­uct page for it by click­ing RIGHT HERE.

There are two things that make this piece spe­cial right off the bat; one, it was designed by EDIT, exclu­sively for EDIT and two, it’s only twenty quid!

I know, I couldn’t believe how inex­pen­sive it is either!

Now, here’s the thing, even though the cost is cheap, the qual­ity of the con­struc­tion is first class. It has a nice heavy, sturdy feel in your hands and it could def­i­nitely take a knock or two as well. It’s well designed and really sharp look­ing too.

But the real ques­tion is, how does it smoke?

Smooth, baby, really smooth. When filled with water, the two fil­tra­tion cham­bers do a really good job of cool­ing the smoke. I’ve been hit­ting on this bad boy all after­noon and I am really dig­ging it!

I’ve been look­ing for a pipe like this for a while; one that is ideal for chill­ing out on the sofa, while watch­ing TV. It’s just the right size and weight, with a decent sized bowl. I couldn’t have designed a bet­ter pipe myself, even if I tried!

Check out the whole line of Bush­mas­ter bub­blers, because they come in more colours than just that blue one!

This hippy can heartily rec­om­mend you pur­chase one. I promise, if you get one of your own, you will love it too!

Hey, hey and ho, fuck­ing ho! The hippy is here to sort out all your gift-giving dilem­mas. That is, if you’re shop­ping for some­one who is supercool!

I’ve got a few rec­om­men­da­tions for you and there’s still time to order them all online and receive them in time for the big day!

I’ll start with a book that is well worth giv­ing to any­one who appre­ci­ates the vast com­plex­ity of human emotions.

- Post Secret – the book
I’ve cham­pi­oned this blog before and I’m still a big fan. The artist solicited people’s secrets, anony­mously via post­cards. They’re actu­ally quite mov­ing and I’ve been on the brink of tears more than once check­ing out his web­site. The book is a well-put together col­lec­tion of post­cards; some that have been on the site and oth­ers that are brand new. It would look great on anyone’s cof­fee table and I was very happy when it recently became avail­able to pur­chase in here Blighty.
– Post Secret – the web­site
– Post Secret – the book (via Ama­zon UK)

It’s a wor­thy project, which has gen­uinely touched peo­ple, so please buy a copy and sup­port the artist, Frank Warren.

Now for a musi­cal sug­ges­tion, two CD’s that I like very much:: Muse – Black Holes and Rev­e­la­tions and the Killers – Sam’s Town.

Muse has been a favourite of mine for quite a while now and their lat­est album does not dis­ap­point. This is big, anthemic music per­formed with pas­sion. If you like hard rock with an intel­li­gent edge, this is the CD for you!

The Killers sec­ond album is also a win­ner, but I was a big fan of their first, Hot Fuss, so no one should be sur­prised that I dig this one too. It’s got a very tra­di­tional rock and roll feel, but with elec­tronic tex­tures that keep it in the 21st cen­tury. Big in the UK, not so much in the US, which is weird because they’re from Las Vegas. Give it to some­one who just likes good music!
– Muse – Black Holes and Rev­e­la­tions (via Ama­zon UK)
– The Killers – Sam’s Town (via Ama­zon UK)

I’ve selected Ama­zon for the book and the CDs as they’re very reli­able and they can still ship out to the UK before xmas!

My friends at Everyonedoesit.com have a huge selec­tion of gifts for the hippy in all of you. Besides hav­ing one of the largest selec­tions of legal highs avail­able in the UK, they also are one of the best dis­trib­u­tors for all things RooR – this hippy’s favourite glassware.

They recently started stock­ing the clas­sic RooR glass water pipe and I’ve just ordered the three-piece model for myself. It’s com­ing tomor­row! And at only £65, it won’t break the bank either! RooR, quite sim­ply make the best glass­ware in the world, so if you need a gift for some­one who enjoys alter­na­tive smok­ing meth­ods and sub­stances, this is the pipe for them!

EDIT stock quite a big range of RooR good­ies, with some­thing to suit every bud­get, from the mini-steamroller right up to RooR’s col­lab­o­ra­tion pieces with Shiva glass, that do actu­ally cost an arm and a leg, but are gorgeous!

You can also check out EDIT’s exten­sive selec­tion of legal highs, with a flavour and effect to suit almost everyone’s tastes! At the moment, I’m still favour­ing Spice Gold, which costs a bit extra, but has quite a kick. It mixes espe­cially well with weed too!

And finally, EDIT also has a selec­tion of xmas gift boxes, again in sizes to suit everyone’s bud­get. They even do a line from RooR!

I’m a big fan of EDIT and have been for years now. I shop with them, a lot and they are fan­tas­tic. I should also men­tion I’m an affil­i­ate of their’s, which is why you see their adverts on this site. But I wouldn’t give them space on my web­site, if I wasn’t 100% behind what they do!

Ok, now onto the big gift, for that some­one spe­cial. Choose Apple!

I love my Apple toys, I’m typ­ing this on my iMac right now and my new Mac mini is sit­ting under my Sony Bravia. I just sold my iBook, to make room from my next lap­top, either a Mac­Book or a Mac­Book pro, I haven’t decided yet!

The easy choice from Apple is an iPod, though you do need to choose a model. I have to say, even though I don’t own one, I think the 2nd-gen, 8gb black nano is the best one in the line-up. A friend of mine has one and it is pure sex and plays music too! If you hold one in your hands, you’ll want one!
The new iPod shuf­fle is also a lit­tle devil of a music player; as small as a match­box, holds around 240 songs and only costs £55 quid. What’s not to love?

I’ve got a 60gb iPod with video, which has since been replaced by the 80gb ver­sion is also a fan­tas­tic piece of kit, though it’s the most expen­sive one they make. What can I say? I’ve got good taste.

By far, the best thing Apple is sell­ing at the moment is their Mac­Book. Every­one loves them and they’re expected to sell sev­eral hun­dred thou­sand of them in the run up to xmas. You can still order one online and prob­a­bly get it by xmas, or you could just walk into any Apple shop and walk out with one. You do need to pay for it first!

So there you have it, the hippy’s help­ful hol­i­day shop­ping guide! I hope it’s helped some­one out there decide what to get some­one special!

And if you’re shop­ping for this hippy, I’m really hop­ing for a green xmas…so just get me an ounce or two of skunky bud. I’ve been a very good boy all year, you know!