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• Hot holiday items: Multi-use cookers, toy monkeys, velvet

  24-12-2017 16:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Multi-use cookers, toy monkeys, and lots of velvet. Here's a look at what experts say were some of the most popular items this holiday season:TOYS: Fingerlings, the ......
  
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• Shoppers spending more may make a merry season for retailers

  24-12-2017 15:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Shoppers who are feeling good about the economy and spending more than expected on items like kitchen gadgets, toys and coats could make this the best holiday ...
  
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• Christmas with Elisabeth Luard: ‘Preparations rarely went to plan’ | Christmas memories

  24-12-2017 13:00
  From rabbit paella in Andalucia to partridge in Provence, food writer Elisabeth Luard has always taken a ‘when in Rome’ approach to Christmas. This year, her first without culinary responsibility, is no exceptionForget the turkey with all the trimmings and go with the flow at Christmas, wherever you may be. I learned my own lesson in childhood on the diplomatic circuit in Latin America. I was just seven years old when my stepfather was posted to the embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay, wh
  
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• Sequins sparkle again as party season turns the fashion clock back to disco

  24-12-2017 10:00
  Grace Jones and Abba are in vogue as hedonism and escapism dominate on the high street and dancefloorsAs the search for that New Year’s Eve outfit begins, the fashionable are looking back to the 1970s. This party season, disco is the reference – with glitter, sequins and shine dominating trends. According to global fashion search platform Lyst, the use of sequins as a keyword went up by 42% from June to November and the disco trend features prominently in January’s Vogue. With
  
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• The great big Observer Food Monthly Christmas leftovers sandwich

  24-12-2017 09:00
  What to do with the leftover bird and bits? Pile them high, the bigger the better. Add crunch and crisps. Perfect for Boxing Day (or any other day)I feel relaxed and comfortable as the madness of Christmas winds down, and I take great and patient pleasure in the careful construction of one of my food events of the year: the Boxing Day Sandwich. It is an embodiment of the very spirit of Christmas. All the stragglers, the leftovers and the overlooked, brought back together the day after Christmas,
  
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• Lost in rhyme: a walk in the poetic beauty of Ballynahinch, Galway

  24-12-2017 08:00
  Amid great walking trails, fantastic fishing, and literary heritage, Ballynahinch Castle hotel delivers the best of Connemara – and you don’t need to be a poet to appreciate it
  There are few things I’d rather do, on a cold December morning, with ice in the puddles and a crisp blue sky overhead, than go rambling for an hour or two in the woods around Ballynahinch Castle hotel in County Galway.There is a hot whiskey waiting for me when I get back from my walk, and a roaring fire
  
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• The night before | Eva Wiseman

  24-12-2017 07:00
  It’s all about the eve but 24 December is not the only day loaded with anticipationHappy Christmas Eve. Happy train-ride-of-pain. Happy sleeping-on-a-sofabed-with-no-idea-how-to-turn-the-epileptic-fairylights-off. Happy being-spoken-to-like-a-six-year-old-again. Happy getting-slightly-pissed-in-a-pub-with-people-you-grew-up-with-but-have-no-idea-what-their-wives-are-called. Happy quickly-buying-bathbombs-at-dusk. Happy nostalgia. Happy all of this. There should be more opportunities to cel
  
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• Playing with style: at home with Karen Poole

  24-12-2017 07:00
  The singer-songwriter from Alisha’s Attic knows all about dance music, but at home she likes a more retro feelKaren Poole grew up with music. Her dad sang with the Tremeloes through her childhood then, in the 90s, she and her sister Shelly were the duo Alisha’s Attic. Since then she’s written more than 35 UK top 10 hits, working with the likes of Kylie, Galantis and David Guetta. But in the kitchen of her north London home, you’re more likely to hear classical or ambient
  
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• Nigel Slater’s festive leftovers recipes

  24-12-2017 07:00
  Surfeit of parsnips? A few too many sprouts? The festive season is a time of good cheer – and plenty of rich pickings
  Tonight, the expectation. Will the goose be juicy? Will the pudding flame? Is Santa going to come? And tomorrow, let me assure you, will be just fine. (A first-time cook recently confided in me that she was terrified. I told her not to worry. We all are.) My thoughts, though, are already on the days that follow. To my mind, these are the days of real feasting.There will be,
  
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• My wealthy daughter-in-law always treats us very rudely

  24-12-2017 07:00
  A mother is fed up with the way she is treated whenever she visits her son and his family. Mariella Frostrup tells her that it’s in her interests to make the relationship workThe dilemma We visit our son a few times a year and each time come away feeling hurt by the attitude of our daughter-in-law. Since moving to London she treats us very rudely. To be quite honest she is up her own arse big time, keeping up with all her wealthy friends. We try to be friendly, taking our own towels, a mea
  
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