40th Birthday Gifts

After a 40th birthday gift for someone who insists ‘thirty-nine is so last year’? You're in the right place. Forty gets the full treatment here, from ‘the first 40 years of childhood are always the hardest’ to a mixtape label filed under ‘born in the olden days’.

Want the one that refuses to help? ‘Remember forty is the new... erm... nope, sorry, I got nothing.’ Something softer? There are sweet ones for a very special mum or daughter, and rude ones strictly for friends who give as good as they get.

The birthday itself or the do at the weekend. See which one sounds like their kind of forty.