I have to confess to failure. I write a blog about great gifts for guys. I'm supposed to be finding great mens gifts, and this time I don't have one to suggest to you.

I've just spent the whole afternoon looking for Halloween gifts for men. Not women, not kids, but for men. And I have to confess that after some hours spent I don't have a whole lot to suggest.

Of course the net is filled with gifts, for men, women, kids, babies, in fact anyone at all. Yet I can't find great Halloween gifts for men.

Now that's not because there aren't any Halloween gifts out there, there's lots. There's the costumes, the masks, the party supplies, the Halloween gift baskets. All the usual ho hum gifts that you see every year.

But that's the problem. You see them every year. I like to pride myself in finding ideas for gifts for men, Halloween or otherwise, that are a little out of the ordinary.

My criteria is pretty simple. I spend hours looking at gifts. If I see one and I immediately think - I want one of those - then I'll have a second look.

If I'm scrolling down a page of ideas and one catches my eye enough to make me stop, move my cursor to "scroll up" and go up and have a look at it, then I've found something that is at least worth investigating a little more.

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Here's a gift that won't appeal to many men - or will it. I quietly suspect that although it certainly won't appeal to the majority of men, it will appeal to a lot.

Why, because I want one. I'm a man.

I love to cook. I do the cooking for my family and have cooked for myself and others for many years. It's something I learned from my parents when I was young and I've just always enjoyed it.

It's a stereotype that women cook the food and men eat it, and that men don't get involved in the cooking. Of course like all stereotypes there's a lot of truth in it, but it's also completely wrong for many men. After all, aren't most of the worlds best chefs men?

I have all sorts of frustrations over herbs. I love fresh herbs in my food. Problem is, the recipe calls for a spoon full of herbs, and I need to buy a bucket full, most of which go off in the fridge.

I've tried growing my own. With some success. And some failures. Frost, snails, slugs, birds, lack of water, my chickens and lots more have all contributed to the demise of most of my herbs over time. And they go to seed, or the kids pull them up, or ……

Whatever it is they don't seem to survive the disaster zone that is my garden.

So a wonderful indoor herb garden that supplies it's own herbs at hand, when he wants them, would be to die for. Out of reach of drought, beaks, mouths and kids. And perfect for when you live somewhere without any garden!

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