Christmas Gift Guide Day One
Ah, December. You’re finally here. A month which can present many delights, but also confront us with the twin challenges of spending an evening in a Winter Wonderland themed marquee with our work ‘chums’, and hours spent traipsing round the shops looking for gifts, dodging people that are wheeling trollies erratically and shouting “Brian! Do we need Stollen this year"”. I can’t help with the first challenge, but if you’re in the market for any beauty gifts this year, let me spend the next 24 days guiding you past groaning buffet tables of beauty delights, pointing out the highlights as we go. Think of it as a virtual daily tot of mulled wine and mountain top segment of Toblerone (old style, before they finally ruined 2016 for good). Before we start buying for others, however, let me suggest you spend today doing a little self gifting (you deserve it, after all, what with having to spend a night in a marquee where they fire glitter cannons at midnight and play Hi Ho, Silver Lining). If you’re anything like me you get up on 1st December and are seized with an instant urge to pile blankets on the sofa, string the dog with fairy lights and make the place smell like a giant pomander. Also, if you’re anything like me, you get up on New Year’s Day and stare with undisguised loathing at the Christmas tree, declare a sudden hatred of anything smelling of pine or cinnamon and waste a ...