Looking for a gift for someone who also like a glass of wine every now and then? This gorgeously made  bottle stopper should be a real winner.

Made from solid pewter, this stopper features a Scot in his kilt playing his bagpipes, and comes with a cork at the bottom, and a chain and ring to secure the stopper to the bottle once it’s popped in.

Available for £7.50.

2. Etched Scottish Character Tankards

Perfect for a Scottish wedding, these tankards have been designed with a Scottish character etched in the glass, with 9 characters in all including the Father of The Bride, Father of The Groom, Best Man, Usher, Groomsman, Brother of the Groom, Brother of The Bride, Videographer and even the Groom.

Available from £12.99 and despatched withith 3 to 5 working days.

3.  Edinburgh Castle Fast Track Entry Tickets

Has your Scottish gift recipient so far not visited to Edinburgh Castle having been put off by the huge queues? This gift is the perfect opportunity to find out more about their heritage and do nothing of the queuing that all the tourists have to, and will allow them to not only see the Castle and it’s Royal Apartments but also the Prisons of War exhibition, National War Museum and even the dog cemetry….

Available to buy from £6.50 for children and £13.00 for adults.

4. Scottish Rugby Cufflinks

If the person you’re buying a gift for loves their rugby as much as their country then they’re going to love these bone china Scottish Rugby Cufflinks featuring a rugby ball on one and a Scottish thistle on the other

Available for £16.95

5.  Andy Murray Scotland’s Best Sportsman T-Shirt

If the Scot in your life can’t stop going on about Andy Murray is theirs all theirs and us English can’t have him, this Andy Murray t-shirt with the word Britian’s Best Sportsman crossed out and replaced with Scotland’s Best Sportsman is sure to go down well.

Available for £14.95.

Well maybe it’s time to think outside the box, and think not about what they might need, but what is going to get them really excited and wanting to show all their friends just how amazing this weird and wonderful gift they’ve got is. And just in case you don’t know where to start, here are five unusual birthday present ideas that we’ve spotted online.

1. Hexbug

Falling into the category of really don’t need, but will completely and utterly impressed by is the Hexbug.  Packed full of high tech cleverness, including sound and object sensors, this cute little robot is designed to not only avoid obstacles but also run away from loud noises, meaning a bang on the table or clap of your hands as they approach you will have them sprinting off in another direction as quick as their little robot legs will let them.

2 . The Slanket

Designed to fill the gap that many of us didn’t know existed between jumper and blanket, the Slanket offers you the comfort of having something to snug under when it starts to get a bit chilly whilst also allowing your arms the freedom to drink drinks and read books whilst still being kept snuggly warm. Also great for making you look like a monk or chilling out Jedi knight, this is sure to be a talking point.

3.  Power Plant Growing Machine

If the person you’d buying a present for is a bit of a gardener then they’re going to love this NASA designed plant pot for it’s looks and be completely blown over by what it can achieve - which is growing plants without any soil at all, all thanks to a technique called aeroponics.

What is aeroponics? Well it’s a bit like a rainforest on a mini scale where the plants are kept alive by a nify microjet system that constantly sprays the roots with super oxygenated nutrient rich water, and all the recipient of this gift will need to do to get their plant growing is add water to the nutrient mix included, pour it over a spongy strip in the brim of the pot, add their seeds and then just wait to be pretty darn impressed by the results.

4. Zpen

If the person you’re buying a gift for is also scribbling things down then losing them, this Zpen is for them as it will make sure they never misplace them again.

How? Because this gizmo turns any piece of paper into an electronic notepad that will store everything they jot down ready to be stored on their computer, and setting it up is easy - just clip the receiver onto the top of the piece of paper they’re working on, make their notes and then plug it in and transfer it via USB on their computer.

5.  Nothing

If they really want nothing for their birthday then why not get them just that. Available from Getting Personal , this gift comes beautifully packaged with in a moulded ball shaped dome and instructions and when opened up will reveal they got exactly what they asked for. Nothing at all.

What better way could there be to celebrate turning 18 then your first legal drink being a glass of Champagne? Well that would have to be having a glass of Champagne straight from a bottle personalised with your very own name and message, which is exactly what you can order them for just £39.95 from Getting Personal, and you don’t even have to do it ages in advance - order before midday and it”ll be delivered by the next working day!

Available to buy online from Getting Personal.

2.  Supercar Thrill Gift Voucher

If your soon to be 18 year old is completely and totally car mad then they’re going to love this Supercar Thrill gift experience. Allowing them to choose from a whole host of different cars including Ferraris, Lamborghinis or Porsches, this is going one of those cool presents they’re going to be talking about for a long time to come!

Available for £99 from Buyagift.

3.  Personal Shopping Experience

If the one thing the soon to be 18 year old loves more in life than anything is shopping then this personal shopping experience is for them. Designed to make them feel like a celebrity, this will see them taken shopping by a stylish who will pick out shops and clothes fothem that will make them look like they’ve just come off the catwalk and are heading off onto the red carpet.

Available for £146.81 at Buyagift.

4.  Flip HD Digital Camera

If the birthday boy or girl always has their phone out filming their friends and taking photos of them on nights out then they’re going to love this Flip HD Digital Camera.

Loved by Oprah and just about every other celebrity with a gadgety bone in their body, this digital camera fits easily into your pocket and will produce video in stunning HD that will make all those drunken moments they capture of their friends even funnier than the blurred footage they’re capturing at the moment!

Available from £159.95 at Firebox.

5.  18th Birthday Classic Years CD and Greeting Card

Got a big present sorted out but want something small to remind them of just how old they are? This 1991 Birthday Classic Years Card is perfect, because it not only features everything that was very cool back then (and so uncool now) it also comes with a 20 track CD of all the biggest music from the year they were born which is sure to get them cringeing!

Available to buy for £6.95 at Getting Personal.

1.  For Dad Engraved Photo Keyring

Looking for a gift for your Dad that he can take with him wherever he goes, and will know with just one look how much he means to you? This Engraved Photo Keyring is perfect. Opening up to reveal a mirror on one side and a photo on the other, this keyring can also be engraved with 30 characters that will let him know just how much you love him…

Available to buy for £19.95 at Getting Personal.

2. BBQ Branding Iron

If your Dad is something of a control freak when it comes to doing barbeques in the Summer then he’s going to love this BBQ Branding Iron because it’ll allow him to brand each bit of meat with his very own name or message, thanks to the 52 changeable letters that comes with this branding iron. Designed to be  slotted into the two lines of the iron then locked in place, this needs nothing more than a bit of time heating up in the coals to allow him to print a very personal message on every steak or chop he burns barbeques.

Available for £14.95 at Firebox.

3. Beerdolier

Is your Dad at his most happy when he’s chilling in the garden with a beer in his hand? Well thanks to this Beerdolier he’s always going to have one to hand or at least over his shoulder because this gunslinger type belt will hold 6 cans of his favourite beer, just ready to be popped one after the other..

Available in either red or black for £14.95 from Firebox.

4. Dad The Weed Slayer Kneepad

If your Dad loves nothing more than getting out in the garden and making sure it looks as good as any show garden at Chelsea then he’s going to love this kneepad from Getting Personal. Designed to save his knees from getting dirty and more importantly aching, this foam pad comes complete with the words “Dad The Weed Slayer” which is sure to make him smile and think of you every time he uses it.

Available for £4.95 from Getting Personal.

5.  Pen Fishing Rod

If your Dad is a big fishing fan then he’s going to love this Pen Fishing Rod as it means he’ll always be ready to cast off.  Designed to be about the size of a marker pen when in pen format, this rod opens up to become a 4ft long fishing rod and comes complete with a left and right handed reel, a 5lb breaking strain line and even a triple hook spinner. He’s guaranteed to love it and you can be sure he’s going to delight in showing it to all his fishing pals too!

Available to buy online for £29.45 at I Want One Of Those.

I’ve seen quite a few personalised football gifts in my time as a present seeker but this has to be one of my very favourites because it allows the football fantasy of the recipient to come true, well at least in the form of a professional commentary that can be recorded to include all the details you want.

Not convinced? Visit the Getting Personal site and listen to their examples - they’re going to blow your socks off.

The Personalised Football Commentary gift is available for £29.95 at Getting Personal.

2. Personalised Football Calendar

If you’re looking for a personalised football gift for someone who loves to have their own name across their football shirt, then this personalised football calendar is going to be right up their street. Available to begin for any month you like, this 12 month calendar features a different image for every month but has one thing in common - that their name is featured on every page, whether it’s on the back of t team shirt, in fireworks above the stadium, or in the mud by their boots.

It’s look great, and with prices starting from only £9.95 it’s brilliant value for money too.

Available to buy online at Getting Personal.

3. Personalised Football Shirt

If your football fan is yet to own a team football shirt with their very own nme across the back, then there really can be no better option than getting them exactly that, and with 1000s of shirts available at Subside Sports it likely if their team plays at top level anywhere around the world they’re going to have their shirt all ready to be personalised.

Available online at Subside Sports.

4. Personalised Football Diary

If the person you’re looking to buy a present for is a fan of one of the top 50 teams, then this personalised football diary is perfect for them, because not only can it start at any month of the year (and carry on for 12 months), it also comes with a monthly summary page (complete with full page newspaper story) of their top games over the last 100 years, as wekk as the recipients name and the year embossed on the front!

Available for £16.95 at Getting Personal.

5. Personalised Football Book

If the person you’re buying a personalised football gift for is as interested in the history of their club, as their current playing form then this personalised Football book is going to be perfect.

Filled with newspaper stories, written at the time, about their players, games and Championships from over 100 years ago to now, this is sure to bring back memories as well as they let them see just how much has changed in the team and the game!

It’s available for the top 50 teams in the country and comes with a fully personalised front page and optional gold embossing on the cover.

Available for £44.99 at Gone Digging.

1. Wonderful Teacher Personalised Mug

Guaranteed to make all the other teachers in the staff room jealous, this personalised teacher mug features a simple, yet elegant flower and butterfly design and can be personalised with a message to them as well as your name.

Despatched within 3 working days, this personalised mug is available for £12.95 at Getting Personal.

2. Personalised Green Apples Card

Not sure you want to go to the expense of buying a gift but would like to send a really nice card with a personal message inside? This personalised Green Apples card is going to be perfect because not only does it feature a chalkboard and apples on the front, it can also be personalised with the name of your teacher - and unlike some cards that can look rather tacky this one looks amazingly professional!

And all for just £2.95 with same day dispatch before 1pm at Getting Personal.

3. Luxury Personalised Star Teacher Champagne

Feel your teacher has gone beyond the call of duty this year and want to do something extra special as a thank you? Well how about buying them a bottle of Personalised Star Teacher champagne to celebrate the end of the school term with a bang! Made up of a blend of Pinot Noir, Meunier and Chardonnay, this is a bubbly delight that is really going to mean a lot, especially when they open the Champagne gift box ans find their very own name on the bottle!

Available with next day delivery, this champagne is just £39.95 at Getting Personal.

4. Best Teacher Mousemat

With everything being all about computers these days, it’s likely your teacher spends a lot of time at home plodding away at the PC making up lesson plan after lesson plan. Why not make them smile when they are by buying them a Best Teacher mousemat that features the words Best Teacher, a big red apple, their name and the subject / class they teach.

Available within 1 - 3 days at Getting Personal.

5. Personalised Engraved Star Teacher Paperweight

If there’s one thing that teachers have a lot of it’s bits of paper, so what could make a better gift than an Engraved Star paperweight that comes complete with a 50 character message of your choice!

Available within three working days, this engraved star costs just £24.95 at Getting Personal.

Well the good news is there’s a huge range of Harry Potter inspired gifts around to get them overexcited with all over again, and here are our top five picks….

1. FunFlyStick

Okay I’ll admit it, this isn’t as good as Harry’s flying broomstick, but it’s still hard not to be impressed by how this stick can not only make the metallic shapes that come with it levitate but also follow it as though under it’s control…

How’s it do it? It’s all down to  a tiny battery-powered Van de Graaff generator (remember those big ones at school that would make your hair stand on end) which, at the press of  button, generates an electrostatic charge that charges the metallic shapes that are then repelled by the stick to create the levitating effect..

The FunFlyStick is available for £24.95 at Firebox.

2. Harry Potter Slytherin House Necktie

Always felt you’d be a great addition to Harry’s Gryffindor House team? Well now thanks to CineReplicas you can, because they’re now selling a replica for the Harry Potter Tie that both he and the rest of his Gryffindor house wear!

Both this Harry Potter Gryffindor tie and Slytherin House tie are available to buy online from £16.95 at Amazon.

3.  Harry Potter 1 - 5 DVD Box Set

No true Harry Potter fan is going to want to be without a copy of all the Harry Potter films that have come so far, and thank to this Harry Potter DVD Gift collection from Amazon they won’t have to be, because it contains all over the five films up to the current Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince which has just hit the cinema screens.

This Harry Potter DVD Box Set is currently available for the hugely reduced price of £14.98 (usually £40.99) at Amazon.

4. Harry Potter Scene It DVD Game

Think you know every character and every twist and turn of every Harry Potter movie inside out? Now thanks to the Harry Potter Scene It DVD Game you can prove it, as this DVD  game comes complete with with image quizzes, puzzles and questions that only the most dedicated of Harry Potter fans is going to know the answer to.

The games comes with a Flextime game board you get to choose how long to play for - great if  you’ve got only half an hour or alternatively a whole night of playing time spare - as  patented Optreve DVD that prevents you getting the same questions again and again, 4 high-quality Harry Potter themed metal pieces, 2 oversized dice, a massive 160 trivia cards and 30 Harry Potter themed House points card.

The Harry Potter Scene It Dvd Game is available in it’s second edition for the currently reduced price of £11.99 (usually £40.69) at Amazon.

5. Harry Potter Glasses And Wand

If you’re going to be a truly good wizard then there’s going to be two things you need - a wand to conjure those spells up with, and a good old pair of round spectacles to be able to see that the result of your spell is right, and thanks to  Just For Fun you can have both for under a tenner at Amazon.

The Harry Potter Glasses and Wand Accessory Kit is available for £8.99 at Amazon.

All prices were correct as of the 13th July 2009 but are subject to change at any time..

You’re looking for a gift for someone who’s so protective of their barbecue that you really would be taking your own life into your hands if you were to try to offer some advice on cooking the sausages, because they knew the exact method to get them just perfect…

There really is then only one gift for them.

The Grillslinger.

Developed by two of New Zealand’s top chefs, the Grillslinger is the barbecue equivalent of a Handyman’s toolbelt but a hundred times cooler because instead of their being hammer and nails in it, this has  a set of very high quality BBQ tools.

Made up of tongs, spatula and knife, these all sit in ‘quick-draw’ lock and load inserts and even have room for those essential bottles of oil and a pair of salt and pepper shakers. Perfect for keeping everything to hand, this also means that no one else can get hold of their tools, which I think is something they’re rather going to like - don’t you?

And the best thing is after they’ve made a huge mess of it you can simply pop it in the washing machine ready for next time!

The Grillslinger BBQ belt is available for £49.99 at I Want One Of Those.

Those throwaway barbeque trays you can buy here, there and everywhere might be useful but they’re not exactly the most beautiful things to look at, and they definitely don’t give you chest thumping I’m doing a barbeque feel do they?

Well thanks to the new Asado Grill Portable Barbecue now they can, because this transforms the humble foil tray into a stunning modern looking barbecue and it’s not going to cost hundreds of pounds to buy - it’s going to cost just £9.95!

So How Does The Asado Grill Portable BBQ Stand Work?

Well it’s actually very simple. Made from chrome with legs formed by a half circle, the Asado disposable barbecue stand requires you to do nothing more than slide the instant barbeque into the top section, place it wherever you want it then light the barbeque and you’re away.

Where Can You Use The Asado Portable Barbecue Stand?

Anywhere as long as the ground is solid! Personally the one thing I hate about proper barbeques is I’m left standing around it whilst everyone else is chatting away round the table.

With this disposable barbecue stand, it doesn’t have to be like that anymore, just pop the stand onto the centre of the table, and you have an attractive feature and don’t miss out on anything (though there many be an issue with too many cooks spoiling the broth barbeque.)

The Asado Grill Portable Barbeque stand can be ordered online for £9.95 at Firebox.

Present Ideas have searched the internet high and low to find what we think are five gorgeous engraved Christening gifts that no one is ever going to want to throw away.

1. Engraved Crystal Christening Book

Styled in the shape of a book out of Crystal, this gorgeous Christening geatures the words ‘On Your Christening Day’ to the top of the book with an engraved cross below, and the name of the child and the christening date below.

This Engraved Crystal Christening Book is available for £19.95 at Getting Personal.

2. Engraved Childrens Cutlery

A gorgeous gift that is sure to be used time and time again now, this engraved childrens cutlery is also likely to become a keepsake that they’re not going to want to get rid of when they’re all grown up, and features a teddy bear to the bottom of the cutlery, with their name engraved up the base.

This Engraved Childrens Cutlery Set is available for £19.95 at Getting Personal.

3. Square Trinket Box

If you’re worried that something too childlike is going to get abandoned as they grow then this engraved silver plated trinket box could be just the thing. Allowing up to 4 lines of 15 characters this will allow you to say something they will cherish forever.

This Engraved Square Silver Plated Trinket Box is available for £16.95 at Getting Personal.

4. Personalised Leather Christening Bible

If you’re attending a Catholic, Anglican or Orthodox Christian christening then this white leather Christening bible from The Gift Experience will make a very special gift as not only will it be a bible all of their own, it will also come with their name, date and the occasion written in Gold Block across the front cover.

Presented in a Presentation Slip In Box, this is something that will be really special to the parents on the day, and a gift that will undoubtedly become a true keepsake for the child as they grow.

This Leather Christening Bible is available for £39.50 at The Gift Experience.

5. Personalised Christening Candle

Struggling to find the perfect Christening present within your budget? This Personalised Christening Candle is ideal solution.

Personalised with the name, date and venue of the child’s Christening this is definitely something they’re not going to want to throw away.

The Personalised Christening Candle is available for £9.99 at The Gift Experience.