Tag: advent calendar
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#24 | ALWAYS & FOREVER…
‘What are you two doing here?’ Rocks’ grandmother’s home is bride central; the three friends secured a wedding dress by Dior and Nonna’s seamstress drove in from Florence to help with minor alterations. A team of hotel staff are setting up the village church and another work the ball room. The three friends made their…
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#20- MONTE MADRE
When the car turns into the narrow road leading to the doors of Monte Madre, JJ felt the tension begin to ebb. On instinct Rocco reaches for her hand, giving it a squeeze, their first contact since boarding the private jet to Florence. Monte Madre. Arriving in this little hamlet is a thrill unlike no…
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WINDOWS – LIBERTY
This was giving I knocked together scraps from the floor of the tailor’s shop to make something in hopes that it turns out fine. It did not. I am not sure what it is, but these windows are not giving festive. The colours are flat, the range is poor and there is no coherent story…
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WINDOWS- SELFRIDGES
This was a window, like last years’, had to settle with me before I fully appreciated the scope of the story it is telling. It is one we can relate to because it deals with Christmas day and the aftermath; who is going to do the washing up? The brusselsprout or not argument, a fridge…
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WINDOWS- HARVEY NICHOLS
I didn’t like this window, it felt more New Year’s Eve than Christmas; too much sparkle and razzle dazzle to be even remotely christmassy. Maybe this is for the many holiday parties we could have attended if the train strikes did not derail things but it is missing something. Harvey Nics is one of those…
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HOME SCENTS- CANDLES
Diptyque- Feu De Bois: I am not one for woodsy scents but I was in Gleneagles and there was a particular scent all over the hotel, it was so particular, wood without being murky, smooth and ever so wintery… I think I found it, Feu de Bois will make your home smell like woods and…
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#5 Mother Dearest
‘Have you spoken to your sister?’ Gyll asks Fen her oldest and least obstinate daughter; they are at Sotheby’s to pick up the art work she bought at auction. ‘Yes mother, I have and she is doing well and looking forward to Christmas.’ ‘She’s not taking any of my calls.’ ‘That’s nothing new.’ Fen shrugs.…
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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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#3 – ANGELS
‘Whose turn is it for the angel this year?’ Rocco asks both girls. They have just finished putting up the last of the Christmas trees and as usual he’d gone overboard, all three trees stand at 10 feet one feet up from last year. One in the foyer, one in the living room, and the…