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Preparing to celebrate Welcome to our bumper get-ready-for-Christmas special issue. I hope you’ll find everything you need inside to create a fabulous festive celebration for you and your family. And if I wasn’t excited enough before, I have to say

A dazzling new production of Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands opens in Plymouth on 25 November before a London season and UK-wide tour. Based on Tim Burton’s 1990 film, it tells the story of a gentle boy, created by an eccentric inventor who died

Tell us about your look I wear white jeans all year round – these are from Gap. I usually team them with pale grey pieces in winter. Today, I fancied a splash of colour and threw on this red coat, bought a few years ago in Primark. My oversized sweat

My lovely 11-year-old granddaughter Lily wrote a poem entitled A Silent Christmas – and it’s very atmospheric. Here’s the first section. Hope you like it as much as I do. On a silent Christmas I saw Trees looming over me The path concealed in a winte

Graham Norton is feeling lucky. In April, he blew out the candles on his 60th birthday cake and today he is in a philosophical mood, reflecting on just how blessed he is. ‘Turning 60 was much better than I anticipated,’ muses Graham. ‘The nice thing

17 November – 21 December 2023 Attracting nearly half a million visitors every year, this huge market features more than 100 traditional wooden chalets, all hand-picked for their unique and exclusive products. Join the bustling atmosphere and stunnin

Vanessa Buck, 51, is a vision board mentor and founder of visionboardsforall.co.uk. She lives in West Sussex with her husband Chris, 52, and has two children, Harriet, 25, and Toby, 22. Each year, I look forward to picking out a new decoration to add

A well-cut evening trouser is a super alternative to a dress. Look for wide-leg styles, especially in luxurious fabrics like velvet and dressy sequins for a burst of sparkle. A special shirt can be worn over dark jeans, black trousers or tucked into

Give your panstick and powder a break over Christmas and let your skin take on a radiant, expensive-looking champagne finish befitting of the season. It’s a great look for dry skin. Use products that are going to enhance, not mask, your natural glow.

As Jess readies her daughter Yasmin for this year’s visit to Father Christmas, it’s hard to tell which of them is more excited. Because both cannot wait to show the man in the red suit just how far this brave five-year-old – once stricken by cancer a

It’s World Kindness Day on 13 November – a day that’s held every year to celebrate and promote kindness. And you would be surprised at how much good you can do, so let’s all help to make the world a better place. You don’t have to give away all your

1 ASK FOR HELP Cold weather and present-wrapping can play havoc with joint pain in your hands, says consultant rheumatologist Dr Rod Hughes. If you’re having difficulty, enlist friends and family to help – the perfect excuse for a get-together. 2 SUS

Two recent trials suggest daily multivitamin supplements are beneficial for cognition. Firstly, among 3,500 older adults randomly assigned to vitamin supplements or placebo, episodic memory (tested by ability to learn and recall lists of unrelated wo

Q My husband died a year ago. We’d been married for 40 years. He didn’t leave a will and he’d recently inherited some valuable items from his parents and some money, as had all his siblings. They are now demanding that I give these things back – and

I’m sorry, Carol. I love spoiling you, but I think we should forget about buying each other Christmas presents this year.’ Sean rehearsed his speech throughout the 20-minute drive home, but whichever way he said the words, they still sounded wrong. H

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Fancy adding a bit of festive fun to your next holiday? You needn’t look any further than a lovely British country house hotel, as so many of them celebrate the season with elaborate decorations, special overnight packages and delicious seasonal menu

There are some parts of the planet that can only be seen by ship: among them, the lush Marquesas of French Polynesia. These verdant islands are nearly two days’ sailing from Tahiti, itself unfathomably far from the world’s major land masses. With the

In the mellow days of autumn, it can be hard to picture the harshness of winter in your garden. Yet it’s worth looking ahead and doing a few small jobs now that will help it cope with freezing temperatures, lashing rain and high winds. Then, when the

by Rob Biddulph (£12.99, HB, HarperCollins) He may be the smallest whale in the ocean, but Gigantic is fine with that. He just keeps himself busy, flipping and somersaulting with his friends. His big brother, Titan, isn’t so confident in his little b

New opportunities are waiting to come into your world. Widen your horizons and take some risks. You’ll be very glad you did. Creatively, this is a wonderful time for you. Follow your passion, take daily action, and you will be amazed with the results

Clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack. Sigh. That is the sound of my friend Wendy pacing up and down the wooden floor of our charity shop in her new clogs. Wendy is not what you’d call a short person, unlike me, and clogs give her an extra two inc