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    Entertain ATHOME (AND STAY JOLLY)

    Oct 22, 2020 5 minutes
    WORDS LINDA CLAYTON

    Second Covid spike notwithstanding, this festive season is set to be ALL about entertaining at home. Possibly in fewer numbers than past years, but even if you could afford to go out out, the potential risk of picking up a killer virus on the dancefloor (will there even be dancefloors?) is a major buzzkill. The fact we’ve barely seen friends and rellies this year should take the pressure off hosting at home, too. Your guests will be so pleased to see you, and escape their own four walls, they’ll not notice/care if the champers glasses don’t match. Yippee!

    Instead, the focus will be on finding space for guests to let their hair down without feeling claustrophobic. Easy if you live in the Playboy Mansion – but in a ‘normal’ home, the secret is to spread out and identify multiple opportunities in which to celebrate the end

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