You simply can’t beat some delicious ‘posh chocs’ at Christmas as a filler gift, an emergency stand by or a simply perfect gift for the person-who-wants-nothing, can you? And you don’t get nicer than Charbonnel & Walker. Honestly. Their selection boxes make me happy the minute I lift the box, the gold gilt packaging itself always feels like the chocolate...
This is such a perfect Christmas story picture book. First published in 1963, the 50th anniversary edition is a beautiful white and gold hardback – and just as charming, simple and endearing as the first time round. It tells the traditional nativity tale, illustrated with classic Dick Bruna imagery. What I love almost as much as the captivating illustrations is the fact that...
My husband is a difficult man to buy presents for. He wants nothing and wants for nothing, lucky man. Yet, year after year come Father’s Day, his birthday and Christmas I embark on the painful ritual of finding him something that he will love, something that he didn’t realise he wanted, something that will put that expression of oh-yes-that’s-truly-fantastic! on his face as the gift is unwrapped. As pleased as he is at...