Period Living

Sugar, spice and all things nice

From September onwards I smell of Christmas; I have a faint air of cinnamon and ginger about me all of the time,’ Alix Fauvel quips as she prepares yet another baking tray of gingerbread stars, trees and reindeer for the oven, among the many hundreds she will make in the run up to Christmas.

Her work kitchen is housed in a shiplap cladded garden outbuilding, a converted piggery nestled behind her elegant Victorian home on the edge of the tranquil village of Cranborne. With its views out

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