Category: ADVENT CALENDAR
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WINDOWS- FORTNUM & MASON
Nowhere does tradition like Fortnum’s and no one ever will. From the advent calendar façade that lights up the store during the holidays to the chiming of the clock at the top of the hour, that brings out Messrs Fortnum and Mason to perform for the adoring crowd below. Everything about this feels like a…
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THE WINDOWS- HARRODS
I typically don’t post my favourite windows first, but what the hell I am too giddy about this window and quite surprised by my absolute adoration for it because it is a single brand, layered yet single story windows, encased in gingerbread format absolute high fashion and I LOVE it. Harrods entire façade has been…
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EDINBURGH, THE ENDEARING
You know how everyone has a happy place? Well Edinburgh is that place, that happy place for me. Besides the book festival which is the best time to be there because the city is buzzing, but never crowded, the city makes you feel like a part of it; like you are among kindred. Winter is…
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BEFORE I LET GO- KENNEDY RYAN
Do you want an author take you apart and put you back together again? Soothe you and make you curl up in a ball in the corner… Kennedy Ryan is that author and Before I Let Go is such a book. This book, this book. Josiah, Si and Yasmen, Yas, are a divorced couple who…
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THE LAST MINUTE GIFT GUIDE
First things first, it’s hard this time of year to know what to gift someone, to afford what you want to gift them, there are so many crisis raging around the world, not least, cost of living crisis which I have talked about in moments in this newsletter; its real, its out there, its in…
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THE CHRISTMAS MOVIE
There is one thing we require of a Christmas movie: the happy ending, in whatever form, from whatever arc, it ends happy. The guy always gets the girl, the girl always gets the girl, the boy always gets the boy; maybe even a Christmas wedding. The family feud always gets resolved, the long-lost sibling comes…
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12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
GET THE CROCKERY RIGHT: You have time, you have patience, get your crockery game on point. There is no need to do matchy-matchy but do something fun and quirky even but select and firm up your crockery. THE MENU: Finalise the menu now, traditional? a little to the left, a wild card. If its a…
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BOXING DAY MENU- THE BRUNCH
Well we all know what will happen on Christmas day, those are mum and dad’s office hours, mostly mum’s, but for the sake of the season we will imagine it to be dad’s too. They’ll be in the kitchen cooking up a storm and bottoming it up with a cheeky glass of sherry here and…
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THE HOLIDAY COCKTAILS
So what are you serving? Food sure but what about booze? Get your cocktails skates on, stick with three options, make life easy on yourself. Set out the ingredients in a cocktail station, to encourage guests to make their own cocktails. Woah Maddie A Charming Number ingredients: 10 black seedless grapes . 1/2 a pomegranate.…