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25 Days of Festive Health & Wellbeing - Treats for Yourself & Others
Finish watching any box sets, or The Undoing with Nicole Kidman or The Life Ahead with Sophia Loren, 7500, or DNA, or Harlots or Billions…that’s it on the box for a week!
Visit Secret Cellar in Forest Row for your Christmas bottles, then come home & light your Advent Candle & watch the glow in the fading light
Make your Yuletide wreath with locally foraged leaves & berries
Seek out your Christmas pyjamas & jolly sparkly slippers. A snore-drobe!
Take a mindful walk, using all your senses, in the lanes & woods to suss out where there are some holly berries left. Or in your garden if you are short of time
Relax & have a local & independent cafe takeaway coffee with a mince pie. Maria’s in Forest Row is doing takeout brunch. You can walk along the Forest Way
Check your present list, I think it maybe too late for online?
If you must go Christmas shopping, go locally to your independent shops
Another lovely day to watch movies or catch up with series 4 of The Crown on Netflix. Get your hankies out….Gillian Anderson as Maggie is amazing….watch those handbags!
Just be!
Sort out your Festive music & carols. We love listening to all our old CD’s on Christmas Eve & Day, including Frank & Tony, even Bing
Grab a last appointment with local therapist for nails & toes
Start your Christmas food planning, even if smaller numbers….I think the major shops will be even more chaotic, so order locally, many are doing local deliveries. For us & London you have Ashdown Organics, then Seasons & Tablehurst Farm
Watch one of my fun Yoga & Treatment videos that I recorded during lockdown- There are 3 yoga ones, 1 mindfulness, a tea ceremony, how to make & do a detox scrub plus my fave 5 health & wellbeing products…email to request ann@ann-edwards.co.uk if not on Facebook
Have a rest, put your feet up. Make yourself a nourishing Buddha Bowl
Read a favourite book or glossy mag. I’ve just read the David Bailey book & looking forward to Barack Obama’s book for Christmas
We are having a bubbles weekend in London to see the lights, have a lovely meal at Tozis plus a cocktail & snacks on the winter roof terrace at the Ham Yard Hotel overlooking Soho
Sort out your outside & inside dining tables layout for your smaller family group….this year it’s traditional colours with lots of candles of different heights (be careful!). I love to use my old silver napkin rings & coloured glasses
Smoked salmon from Uig is arriving…..make sure you have got your blinis or rye bread from Cyrnel Bakery in Forest Row or your local bakery plus the Dill. Check your recipes & final shopping lists…don’t panic!…all will be well
Feet up! Or shut down your working from home…goodbye Zoom & Microsoft Teams til January!
Ring your festive bell at 6pm with the kids to help Santa fly his sleigh & connect again with your community