I rarely enjoy shopping it is most often a dreary and unsatisfying experience. The exception is shopping in independent shops with a purpose.
December is here and the spirit of Christmas is spreading across Somerset. To mark the arrival of the festive season, Father Christmas made a spectacular ...
Sarah Thorp runs the independent art shop Room 212 on Gloucester Road and is frank about what Christmas means to traders like her. "This is our busiest time of ...
Christmas dinner is the one remaining domestic feast. It's the one day of the year when we strap ourselves to the stove and cook a complex multistage meal, ...
We asked experts for their tips on creative Christmas mantle ideas for a stunning festive display for 2024. Keep reading for mantlepiece ideas.
Dave's mission was to buy all his Christmas presents in one place with only independent businesses. Mission gladly accepted.
Then, her beloved sausage dog Bertie died. "It was just going to me alone on my own," she says. "I would have stayed in bed all day and been really miserable.
It is a great place for grabbing a warm cup of mulled wine after a day of shopping.
Putting up our Christmas trees, frantically trying to get our gift shopping done on time, watching our children's nativity plays and finding the most sparkly ...
A popular family attraction has been transformed into a winter paradise this Christmas. Manor Farm Park and Woodlands, situated in East Leake, has created a ...
Members submitted photos including Christmas trees ready to be picked up, a robin and Christmas illuminations in Somerset. Every week, members of the group are ...
University of Winchester students gained some valuable hands-on experience at Eastleigh's festive lights switch-on.
Tracy McKeague is a BACP and IACP accredited mental health counsellor from Culdaff with a private and public counselling practice based in Serenity House M.
It's cut out of cardboard and has gobs of white glue securing foraged ferns, dried leaves and clipped twigs to it. This new creation replaces a pricey wreath I ...
And to really enjoy Christmas as an adult, a few ducks need to be in a row. A family should be functional, if not thriving, for the festivity to register below ...
Shopping was, for once, enjoyable in this architectural treasure where Tykes have shopped for 245 years.
Every other Sunday, Slutty Cheff โ cook, Vogue columnist, and author of the forthcoming Tart โ shares her thoughts on food, culture, sex and the points where ...
Scott Seare has extravagantly decorated his home for several years to raise money for charity.
Exes, friends we've drifted from and old acquaintances love to reappear at this time of year. Lydia Spencer-Elliott, who's been struggling with disturbances ...
CHRISTMAS spirit is non-existent in my house, though you wouldn't know it from my online antics. A former colleague once dubbed it theโฆ
The great, great, great, great granddaughter of Sire Henry Cole speaks to Secret Surrey.
From card-delivery walks and festive treats, to dog-friendly film suggestions and tree decor ideas, here are some of the Christmas activities I've got in store ...
The chef, author and TV presenter rates snowman cupcakes, sticky toffee cookies and turkey tortilla chips in our blind taste test.
Two weeks (ish) before Christmas. Blimey. We've still not put our decorations up, at my son's insistence. He wants to do them on his last day of school ...
Throughout the month of December, we'll be counting down to the big day, with a number of different interactive Villa-themed quizzes, games and challenges. And, ...
Great texture slices with a perfect ratio of marzipan and fruit makes for a tasty traditional stollen. The dusting is the ideal quantity and combines superbly ...
The families of pupils at Faithful Companions of Jesus Primary School donated the items, which the children then organised and wrapped for the Grace Trust. They ...