“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.” Charles Lamb Old Year’s Day, New Years Eve, Saint Sylvester’s Day: call it what you will but regardless of language or location,...Read More
Whether the origins of Christmas link back to Christianity or pagan festivities that celebrated Winter, the truth is that the essence of this holidays has been corrupted by the greedy religion of marketing. In some households, the love of sharing of Christmas Day lasts for just that, one day. If on the 24th children go...Read More
A whopping 65% of us will go online this Christmas day, according to a specially commissioned study by open cloud company Rackspace. So if your sitting at home reading this in between opening presents and eating your body weight in brussels feel safe in the knowledge that you are in fact part of the majority!...Read More
If you haven’t been to Bristol, you should go. And if you do decide to go, go at Christmas. I went to bristol for the first time last year, after my sister moved there for university and I feel in love with the place. For one the shopping is brilliant, from Cabot Circus for all your...Read More
For me Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without all my family, the massive tree adorned with red baubles and the best dinner of the year, all washed down with copious amounts of bubbly champagne. But it’s not just Christmas Day we make a big deal out of in our household, it is the whole festive season....Read More
Travelling long-haul for the very first time is an exciting but daunting prospect for me. Not only am I unsure whether I am physically able to sit for 12 hours without losing my mind (and that’s only part one of the journey), I have found the preparation part extremely tricky. How do I pack for...Read More
So there is now one week to go until the big day. It’s normally around this time, after traipsing round a million shops and nursing yet another Christmas party hangover, that we start to wonder why the hell we bother anyway! There are presents to wrap, trees to decorate and Christmas songs to be badly...Read More
Mulled wine, ice skating, roasting chestnuts, the Kardashian christmas card…Ok so probably not where you saw that list leading but believe it or not the K clans annual xmas offering is becoming as synonymous with the festive season as Santa Claus himself. And 2013’s eagerly anticipated card – shot by renowned commercial photographer David LaChapelle...Read More
Christmas parties are like weddings; alcohol will flow freely, cheesy pop songs are compulsory and no one will have any idea what to wear. Why is it that both weddings and Christmas have us reaching excitedly for items of clothing that we would never normally be seen dead in? Not again, not this year! Semple...Read More
As a woman, making tough decisions is part and parcel of our daily lives. Whether its making up your mind between two equally stunning pair of shoes when, alas, you can only warrant the one pair; or deciding between attending that evening spin class or catching up on the soaps with a share size bag...Read More
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