25 Days of Festive Health & Wellbeing - Treats for Yourself & Others
Visit Secret Cellar in Forest Row for your Christmas tasting, then come home, light your Advent Candle & watch the glow in the fading light.
Make your Yuletide wreath with locally foraged leaves & berries. Book at One The Square 10am-1pm. You can also buy great pressies from Gill Neilson. I love her Alpaca socks for girls & boys plus hand painted cards
Order your Ralph Lauren leopard PJ’s for Christmas morning from Intimates Lingerie . Mention Wealden Times offer. Be party ready with a black polo or cami & velvet pumps!
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. I’ve just picked some of the drying ferns, which also look good sprayed or au naturel with coral amaryllis if you must…
Relax & have a local Christmas coffee/lunch /tea at your favourite place. We love Pots & Pithoi in Turners Hill plus they have great Christmas gifts.
If you must go Christmas shopping go locally….avoid Bluewater & Brent Cross at all costs!!
A lovely day to watch box sets or catch up with series 3 of The Crown on Netflix. As David says it has great historic reference & is so HUMAN! Olivia Colman is quite imperious.
Do nothing!
Sort out your festive music & carols. We love listening to all our old CD’s on Christmas Eve & Day, including Frank & Tony, even Bing.
Book in for your special £5 off seasonal brush & scrub up plus detox oil followed by one of my special Moroccan teas at our new place – The Retreatery @ 2a High Street, East Grinstead. Your skin will sparkle! You may be able to book in for your nails with Tina if you are quick. Plus we have vouchers.
Make your vote count, then have a drink & an early mince pie! Cyrnel Bakery in Forest Row also make vegan ones.
Buy your prince a shirt for Christmas day from www.irvineshirts.com . Mention my name
Make some mixed Olive & Thyme Biscotti for your nibble & cheeses. Find the recipe here .
Create an outdoor glam Christmas table with candles, jug of holly, bird bath, a few rusted bits, some sprouting bulbs with moss, winter herbs plus a bough strung with fairy lights …may be going a bit far! The DT had a great article last weekend.
Another rest day from lists for taking stock, at work or at home.
Go carol singing . We go round our local roads this night with pre-printed sheets …the old ones are best. And we always get some Quality Street!
Buy your gift vouchers at The Retreatery …we have lots printed for your princes to buy!
Check you are on the right burn down on your advent candle. It’s the Winter Solstice….dark nights will become shorter now!
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Wear your Christmas socks for a lovely Boxing Day walk plus visit our newly opened Hush Heath Estate Swan Inn, Forest Row…they do the best sparkling Balfour Rose.