Category: ADVENT CALENDAR ’24
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Day 15 – Friends For Dinner
Host dinner for your friends, throw something together and gather your besties round, for a good old natter, share your war stories from Christmas past, make plans for an epic new year, drink wine, drink champagne and toast to the essence of friendship, because they have gotten us through the year. Friendships are the pearls…
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Day 14 – The Christmas Windows- Selfridges
If speed was a christmas window, it would be this window. And that analogy, aptly captures the windows of Selfridges this Christmas. You know Selfridges really tries it and it overshoots and overcommits, and it comes out with something because if you are looking for a window that is high on everything and some of…
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Day 13 | London Lights
Oh London my London, you absolute Christmas delight. I talk a lot about London because I don’t believe there is a better place on earth, a more diverse city, a more enchanting city, a more harried city with a more harried people, a more delightful city, a more rambunctious city… it is a city with…
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Day 12 | Read A Short Story
Tap! Tap! is this thing on? My new short story is out in the wild and it is quite the charming read and perfect for the holidays: drama, secrets, scandal and rich people problems unfolding over the holiday season. What more can you ask for really? The Politician, His Wife & The Men They Love……
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Day 11 – Christmas Windows; Fortnum & Mason
It will always be Fortnum’s in one way or another for me, if it isn’t a first it is a close second because they take the magic of Christmas seriously. They have but a small window of opportunity to make passersby stop and gasp and by God do they make they best use of it.…
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Day 10 | A Weekend Away
Give yourself a break before the onslaught of the season is on you, take yourself away to Paris for the day or the weekend, there are good deals about at the moment therefore go forth and seek your Parisian moment. Or up to Scotland my second favourite place outside of London, it is a country…
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Day 9 | The Wine List
Now that we have fine tuned everything we are going to cook and serve and bake and buy, the fun begins with the wine list. First things first, champagne; for a dinner without pre dinner champagne is but a mere meet up so please serve your guests, champagne. Ruinart or Dom if we want to…
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For The Hostess
The consummate entertainer, the one whose homes we go to escape the hullaballoo and demands of our lives, the place we go to let our hair down and speak freely around the kitchen table. Calories do not count and plans do not matter. This is a curated space for us by us by those who…
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Day 8 | Harvey Nichols Christmas Windows
What in the Melania 2016/17 is going on here? Because I don’t understand? If this was meant to scare us off Christmas, it works… I don’t even know want to know the reasoning behind this window, all I know is this is not a nice window, it is not Christmassy or merry or bright. It…