You want the gift you buy for your friend or family member to be something that they will treasure for a lifetime and you can not just find that at any store. This is particularly important when we are buying gifts for men we want it to be thought of original and not something bought at your department store.

I know I can think of many gifts I have received over the years that were ggreat to receive but quickly were forgotten about and ignored afterwards. That’s why I love to use the internet to find unique gifts for all my friends. It gives me the opportunity to find gift ideas that would never appear in any local store.

It was my brothers birthday last week and I was getting desperate to find him something unique. You know what it is like when you rack your brains for days and nothing comes of it! Well then I found what I thought was the perfect unique gift for men and especially someone like him. I bought my brother his very own Scottish Estate to Lord it over. And I mean “Lord it over” because owning this estate meant he was automatically known as the local Laird. (Laird is the Scottish name for Lord)

I admit it is not a huge Scottish land estate but it does legally belong to him and we all enjoyed the party when he was presented with the Lordship. We really went to town that whole day! My sister started to call him my Lord that morning and then a workmate did the same thing and he was totally puzzled by it all. He had no clue what was going to be happening at his birthday party that evening.

Brian did live and work in Glasgow, Scotland at one time and he has always said he would love to go back there one day. Now he has the unique gift of being a honorary Scot and being a Scottish Laird or Lord Although my brother is not a heavy drinker he does like the very occasional tipple of Scotch Whisky so we included a bottle of Isle of Jura malt whisky into the gift and make it even more unique. This whisky is distilled only about a mile of so from his new Estate so he can tour the distillery (its free of course) whenever he visits his Scottish estate on the Isle of Jura.

To be honest you don’t need to have any connection with Scotland to become a Scottish Lord. You just need to be able to enjoy being a special person who actually owns a piece of Scotland and incidentally will be able to pass it on your heirs. Look for a 50 page Laird of Jura Handbook to tell you more about the Scottish Culture and the history of your land and if possible visit the place for yourself. No need to wear the tartan kilt!

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