{"id":123607,"date":"2021-12-03T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/no-time-like-the-present-why-im-going-big-whatever-happens-this-christmas\/"},"modified":"2021-12-03T18:03:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T11:03:54","slug":"no-time-like-the-present-why-im-going-big-whatever-happens-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/no-time-like-the-present-why-im-going-big-whatever-happens-this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"No time like the present \u2013 why I\u2019m going big whatever happens this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAfter 2020\u2019s wash out \u2013 and Omicron notwithstanding\u2013 there\u2019s a lot to catch up on this year, with even more baubles and bubbly than usualIn the last week of August, I called my favourite country pub to book a big table for a Boxing Day lunch. Because, yes, I am that person \u2013 the fruitcake outlier on every WhatsApp group, wanting to make Christmas plans four months in advance. Hiya! As I write, we\u2019re still in bonfire season, yet I am already consulting daily with my packed shelf of Christmas cookbooks (I\u2019m planning to start practising a gingerbread martini) and signing off messages with the new female Santa emoji, my digital daemon from now until the new year.So I am accustomed to the polite bafflement with which my early-doors Christmas enthusiasm is usually greeted. What I\u2019m not used to is being told, as I was that day in August, that the pub was fully booked for Boxing Day already. This year I am no longer the fruitcake outlier. After last year, when Christmas was semi-cancelled by a last-minute lockdown, the world has gone crazy for Christmas.If you are planning on an audience with Father Christmas this year, you\u2019d better be top of the nice list. From Holkham Hall in Norfolk to the Tong Garden Centre in West Yorkshire, Santa\u2019s grottos have sold out in record time. In London, the Liberty department store\u2019s Christmas shop has been selling 38 baubles an hour since it opened, and is on track to sell 110,000 over the season \u2013 its highest figure ever. The Liberty beauty hall is set to sell enough fragrance to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool. By mid-October, \u201cAdvent calendar\u201d was regularly among the top search terms on the Selfridges website. (These days, you can count down the December days with cheese or nail polish if chocolate isn\u2019t your thing.) The mood this year is \u201cChristmas \u2013 amplified,\u201d says Meave Wall, store director at Selfridges. \u201cBig, sparkly, all-round joyful.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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After 2020\u2019s wash out \u2013 and Omicron notwithstanding\u2013 there\u2019s a lot to catch up on...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-w9F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":74840,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/another-reason-not-to-send-christmas-cards-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":123607,"position":0},"title":"Another reason not to send Christmas cards | Letters","date":"December 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Some people take the opportunity to donate the money they would have spent on Christmas cards and stamps to their preferred charities, writes Sue SpillmanThere were a couple of references in the Guardian on Saturday to the demise of Christmas cards (John Crace\u2019s digested week and an editorial, Seasonal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":72917,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/christmas-cacti-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving\/","url_meta":{"origin":123607,"position":1},"title":"Christmas cacti, the gift that keeps on giving","date":"November 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r They are old-school and often overlooked, but these lovely Brazilian plants will do really well in your living-roomAs we slide into December, garden centres and supermarkets everywhere are cramming their shelves with Christmas houseplants. 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