| Father's Day originated more than 100 years ago, in | | | | personalise everything from a football shirt from your |
| the early twentieth century, to complement the already | | | | old man's favourite team to a poster for a sporting |
| well-established tradition of Mothering Sunday, and to | | | | event. How about a beautifully engraved piece of |
| celebrate fatherhood. While some may feel it's | | | | jewellery, or some champagne or other favourite tipple, |
| become an overly commercialised occasion, the fact | | | | with his name on the label? |
| remains that it's one of the few times of the year | | | | The web, of course, also allows you to track down |
| when you can really show your Dad how much you | | | | box sets of DVDs for everything from the Blues |
| appreciate him. | | | | Brothers to Monty Python quickly and easily, and often |
| If you're on the hunt for Father's Day gifts, it makes it | | | | more cheaply than in the high street. |
| trickier if time is short, or if the day falls soon after his | | | | If your Dad isn't into physical presents, how about |
| birthday or if your father doesn't have any particular | | | | buying him an experience to remember? That could be |
| hobbies or interests. It can be all too easy to go for the | | | | a membership to a sporting club, a season ticket for |
| easy option of an aftershave or a tie, which can be | | | | the football team he supports, a special meal out or a |
| forgotten in no time, and don't really show you've put | | | | weekend away. Once again, you'll find all the details of |
| any particular thought into your purchase. | | | | how to do this online. |
| This year, don't put yourself through the stress of | | | | Equally, your father may love the chance to drive a |
| rushing out to the corner shop or garage on the day in | | | | Ferrari or a Lamborghini around a race track, a tour of |
| a desperate search for something suitable. Plan ahead, | | | | a football stadium, or a day out on a steam railway. If |
| and use the Internet to save time and often money as | | | | he's the adventurous sort, what about sky-diving, |
| well. Thanks to the web, you can access a much | | | | parachuting or drifting up, up and away in a hot air |
| wider selection of original, interesting and personalised | | | | balloon? There are plenty of sites where you can find |
| Father's Day presents than you could find yourself by | | | | these kinds of unusual Father's Day gifts -and they |
| traipsing round the shops. | | | | could well cost far less than you expect. |
| There are plenty of sites which allow you to | | | | |