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Last-minute Christmas gift guide

13/12/2020

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BEAUTY AND PAMPERING
 
Treat someone to eco-friendly beauty essentials – MÁDARA Ocean Love Clean Essentials gift set
This gorgeous gift set contains 100 ml purifying foam and a 60 ml daily defense balm nestled in a cute box in a fun and vibrant print, making it perfect for tucking under the tree this Christmas. Suitable for all skin types, this gentle, non-irritating purifying foam is a highly effective face cleanser that removes makeup and impurities and leaves your skin feeling fresh and clean – without drying out your skin.
 
The multi-purpose daily defense balm nurtures skin, while protecting against dryness and roughness in harsh weather conditions, making it perfect for the cold winter months. Suitable for hands body and face.
 
Best of all, the products are vegan, cruelty free and made with 100% biodegradeable formulas and ocean-friendly ingredients. What more could you ask for?
 
Available from MÁDARA for £15.95.
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Give the gift of glowing skin with Holy Grail Naturally Radiant AHA Skin Tonic
 
For the beauty maven who loves a good skincare routine, you can’t go wrong with a gorgeous skin tonic. We love this hydrating acid toner that helps to exfoliate the surface of your skin for an everyday glow. Infused with botanical extracts, this gentle 5% glycolic acid solution lightens dark spots, refines pores and improves the overall appearance of the skin to reveal finer, softer, healthier-looking skin.
 
The combination of AHA, Rosemary Leaf extract and a natural form of salicylic acid derived from willow bark extract hasthe power to loosen dead skin cells, unclog pores and minimize the appearance of blemishes. Gentle enough for daily use. 
 
Available from holygrail-beauty.com for £21.00 for 150ml.
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Encourage calm with The Mindful Box from Holistic

This lovely gift box contains everything you need to feel grounded and relaxed including: A neroli + chamomile candle, lavender tea, lavender pillow mist, lavender and chamomile bath salts, lavender pillow mist, a velvet sleep mask and an inspiring journal all packed up in a gorgeous keepsake box. Bliss. Available from Holistic for £44.00.
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Give an indulgent spa break
For anyone on your list that deserves a bit of me time and the perfect relaxing treat, a gift voucher from Spabreaks.com is just the ticket. They are currently offering 10% off online bookings and 15% off gift vouchers. Use the code XMASTREAT at checkout.
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FOR TRAVEL LOVERS
 
Keep it clean while travelling with the Aesop Departures travel kit
We love Aesop and a good travel kit, so when you the combine the two, you’re on to a winner. Contains everything you need to feel fresh upon arrival: Rinse-Free Hand Wash (50ml), Resurrection Hand Balm (15ml), Blue Chamomile Facial Masque (15ml), Immediate Moisture Facial Hydrosol (50ml), Rosehip Lip Cream (6ml), Mouthwash (50ml), Toothpaste (10ml).
 
Available from Cult Beauty for £45.00.

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​Get cosy with The White Company Cosy Eye Mask and Throw Set
I don’t know about you, but I never trust the cleanliness of the blankets handed out during flights, so I always travel with my own. This gorgeous set includes a 100% cotton thrown and a cute eye mask to ensure you’ll have everything you need to nod off in comfort during your next flight.
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FOOD AND DRINK
 
Give a Luxury Christmas Hamper from Marlo Wine
 
Everyone loves a hamper, but there are hampers and then there are FABULOUS hampers. This gorgeous luxury hamper from Marlo Wine is definitely of the latter.  Boasting three bottles of beautiful wine and a selection of delicious gourmet snacks, it’s the perfect gift for even the fussiest foodies.  Available from Marlo Wine for £195.00.
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Treat foodies to some gourmet cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil
 
Cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil from the Greek island paradise of Zakynthos has delighted foodies for over 2,000 years, but cold pressing and fusion with black garlic is a new and unique innovation.
 
Made from single-origin olives, each and every organically-certified olive is pressed within 24 hours of picking to ensure the best flavour. We can't wait to use it for dipping crusty bread and jazzing up pasta.

Available from Symposium Olive Oil at Etsy for £10.00 (100ml bottle).
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Give a bit of spice with the ‘Eaten Alive’ hot sauce Discovery Pack: The perfect Christmas gift for spice lovers!
‘Eaten Alive’, the award-winning fermented foods producer created by two former Michelin starred chefs, has launched its first ‘Discovery Pack’ featuring four of its best-selling fermented hot sauces – all bursting with flavour and the beneficial bacteria that helped create them.
 
An explosively delicious gift for fermented food fans and spice lovers, the pack of seven delicious raw sauces includes the Smoked Sriracha, Chocolate BBQ, Scotch Bonnet, Preserved Lemon, and Raw Kimchi sauces. Available from eatenalive.co.uk for £29.99.
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BOOKS
 
London In Bloom by Georgianna Lane
 
For anyone that loves London and flowers, this book is a must have. Bursting with beautiful pictures of London in all its blooming glory, it’s a feast for the eyes. From majestic parks to quaint gardens, sweet neighbourhoods and charming floral markets, you get all the joys of travelling through London without leaving the comfort of your home. At the end of the book, there are recommendations for the best places to take in blossoms and blooms as well as how to make your own floral arrangements. Although it’s the middle of December, this book has given me some serious spring fever!
 
London In Bloom by Georgianna Lane is published by Chronicle Books. Available from Blackwell’s for £10.99.
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Hot Cheese by Polina Chesnakova
Who doesn’t love a bit of hot cheese, especially when the temperatures drop? There really is nothing that screams comfort food more than a bit of hot cheese. This recipe book contains 50 cheesy recipes from finger foods to meals, there’s something for all cheese lovers to drool over.  Some our favourite recipes included pigs in a blanket, Cheese Steak with Kimchi, and the Shepherd’s Pie Tater Tot Hot Dish, a real Midwest American dish that takes me back to my Minnesotan roots.
 
Hot Cheese by Polina Chesnakova is published by Chronicle Books. Available from Waterstones.com for £14.99
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 My Wellness Journal by Monika Schneider
After a trying year unlike any other, never has taking care of one’s self been more important. This daily wellness journal is designed to help you have a positive mindset, while reflecting on your goals, habits, sleep and your diet to help encourage self-care. Available from Papier.com for £24.99.
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Christmas gift guide - Books for food and travel lovers

15/11/2020

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Destination Delicious Christmas gift guide - books for foodies and travel lovers
Mystical Places by Sarah Baxter and Illustrated by Amy Grimes
This beautiful book by travel journalist Sarah Baxter is a love story to magical, wonder-filled  places. Instead of using photographs to bring the places to life, there are colourful, ethereal illustrations to depict each place, which adds to the sense of almost supernatural mystery.
 
As you read the book, Sarah’s passion for the mythology of places is as evident as she provides both historical facts about the origins of each place alongside the folklores and theories that make it beguiling.
 
Places I’ve now been inspired to add to my ever-expanding travel bucket list include: Lake Bled, Slovenia; Mount Shasta, California; Spiti Valley, India; and Cadair Idris in Snowdonia National Park, Wales.
 
Mystical Places by Sarah Baxter and Illustrated by Amy Grimes is published by Quarto Publishing. Available from Wordery.com for £1.91 (hardcover).



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​Stuff Every Cheese Lover Should Know by Alexandra Jones
If you’re a cheese lover who wants to know everything there is to know about cheese, from how it’s made to why some cheeses melt differently, then this is the book for you. 
 
Author Alexandra is a woman after my own heart when she prefaces the book by expressing that she’s not here to judge – if you’re first experience with cheese was ‘Velveeta enveloping macaroni’, ‘Cheeto powder licked from your thumb and forefinger, or an American cheese single melted between two slices of bread’, then that’s fine.  Being an American girl, whose first love of cheese was all of these things, and later discovering ‘finer’ cheeses after I moved to England and was exposed to a wealth of amazing English cheddars and fabulous French cheeses (which were very expensive and hard to come by in the small town I grew up of in the middle of the Midwest), I felt as though the book was written just for me.
 
There are lots of great tips on how to pick amazing cheeses from your local cheese shop or grocer, as well as how to build a festive cheese board. For those who are feeling really adventurous, there is also advice on how to make cheese at home.
 
The book is small, so it’s perfectly portable, making it the ideal size for popping in your handbag, should you want to reference any cheeses when you pay a visit to the cheesemonger.
 
Stuff Every Cheese Lover Should Know by Alexandra Jones is published by Quirk Books. Available from Blackwells.co.uk for £6.6.8 (hardcover).


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​Cheese,
glorious cheese...

Wish You Were Here by Terry Stephens
If your favourite travel books feature the most visited destinations that epitomise the usual travel bucket list of ‘go tos’, then this isn’t the book for you. But, if you like to branch out to seek places that are a bit more unique and are guaranteed to provide a memorable experience that you’ll remember for years to come, then you’ll find this book highly enjoyable.
 
Terry Stephens is an international tourism expert who wrote the book to help people understand each place and why we should experience them. Having established his own successful tourism consultancy, Stevens & Associates, Terry has worked on destination development and management in 60 countries. So, if anyone knows what it takes to make a great destination, it’s Terry.
 
So, what makes a great destination? Quite simply, it needs to provide people with a great experience, which means that the destination must be well managed to ensure it delivers an amazing experience.  All of the cities that have been selected for inclusion in the book are relatively compact in size, have a clear vision, and invest in the tourism industry and the local community.
 
Destinations that we’ve now been inspired to visit include the Eugenian Hills in Veneto, Italy; Austin, Texas, USA; Baden-Baden, Germany; Baiersbronn, Germany; Bled, Slovenia; Flagstaff, Arizona, USA; Kitzbuhel, Austria; The Julian Alps, Slovenia; and Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Sadly, it’s going to be a while before we can jet off to any locations outside of the UK, but for now we dream.
 
Wish You Were Here by Terry Stephens is published by Graffeg Limited. Available from Waterstones.com for £20.00 (paperback).
 
Ashley Miln
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