Category: ADVENT CALENDAR ’23
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THE CHRISTMAS CHECK LIST
We like to do things last minute around here because therein lies fun and madness that collide into worlds of joy and magic. It is seven days to Christmas and now is the time to whip out the trusty check list of what needs doing and what needs delegating in the run down. One Create…
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Advent Story #17 | Truth Hurts
‘Mrs Walden there is someone is here to see you.’ Celeste, the maid, informs Josephine who has been in her library avoiding the world outside of it and reminiscing on old times. Emerson stands in the doorway and Josephine’s face dawns with knowing. ‘Aunty Josephine, we need to talk.’ Aunty Josephine not aunty Jojo like…
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Advent Story #16 | Rogue Children
‘I still cannot reach any of them.’ Tristan buries his head in his hands. Three days and not a word from his children. They’d left a note for him saying they had some errands to run and wouldn’t be back for some time, but that they would be in touch soon. He’d called Rellie, Zainab,…
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Advent Story #15 | Villagers with Secrets
‘My favourite taste tester. Buongiorno.’ Marinella calls from the small kitchen behind the counter where she is setting up for the day. ‘Buongiorno. Come Va?’ ‘Bene.’ ‘What lovely flavours do you have for me today?’ ‘I am going to convert you to Mint chocolate.’ ‘Ew.’ Ife made a face because Marinella knows how much she…
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LAZY GIRL’S GIFT GUIDE | PECULIAR PENNY
We love a peculiar Pete or Penny in our lives because they simply make gift shopping that bit more exciting. Now, we can simply make our lives easy b getting them a voucher or we can really lean into the problem of it all and go scouring. Tea Ceremony There is nothing quite as indulgent…
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Advent Story #14 | Where’s Mrs Walden
THE CASE FOR IFE WALDEN – Blythe Gunta Twelve days ago, I broke the story about infidelity in the Waldens Marriage, and we have not seen or heard from the woman in the eye of the storm since the story broke. I would go so far as to say Ife Walden is one of those…
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Advent Story #13 | St Margaret’s Hope
Zachary is nursing a glass of beer, sat by the window of this small town on the edge of the world it seems, it is cold, colder than a witch’s tit as the saying goes, there is snow on the ground, and he has never been more bundled up in his life before. Puffer jacket,…
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LAZY GIRL’S GIFT GUIDE | STATIONERY
I love stationery. In a former life I was a stationery, a finely woken notebook with the most luxurious paper, finely line, with a date tab and margin, cream paper that feels like linen to touch but does not let the ink bleed through, that makes you stand back and admire your hand writing and…
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Advent Story #12 | Market Day
‘What are you making cara?’ Ife looked frazzled, she’d been standing at the stall for ten minutes trying to decide, getting distracted by all the food on display, half of them she did not know what they were meant to do in food. How she wished she’d paid attention when her mother tried to teach…