The best gifts for women in their 60s

The best-known smart feeder and the more polished experience — the app is the one people prefer. The catch is pricing: a Pro subscription at roughly $4.99 to $9.99 a month reaches several hundred over five years on top of the feeder. Buy the PRO Solar model, which includes AI identification without a subscription, and the objection largely disappears.

The most consistently recommended garden kneeler in published testing, and the reason is the arms. Getting up from ground level is what quietly ends people’s gardening, and a frame with something to push against postpones that for years. Sturdy metal frame rated to around 225lb, a tool pocket, and it folds flat. It photographs terribly.

A 7-inch screen holds a paragraph together at 200 per cent font size in a way the 6-inch Kobo cannot, and stated battery life runs to around twelve weeks. Buy it if the recipient already has an Amazon library, because that transfers and nothing else on this page outweighs it. Pay the extra to remove the lock-screen advertisements — handing someone a present with adverts on it is a false economy.

Designed, woven and finished in Scottish mills, and it feels like it. This is the reference point for the category — the thing cheaper wraps are trying to approximate. What you are paying for over a direct-to-consumer blend is provenance, weave quality and a finish that holds its shape. Cashmere still pills at friction points by month five, at any price, and no maker will tell you that.

The standard recommendation for anyone starting or returning to watercolour, and deservedly so. Cotman is Winsor & Newton’s student range — genuine pigment rather than dye, which is the difference between colours that mix cleanly and colours that turn grey. Muddy colour is what convinces beginners they have no talent, so this specification matters more here than anywhere else.