Hints and tips:
...Why As well as being part of Canada’s second-largest ski area, Sun Peaks has Christmas events including an artisan market, skating, carol singing and a Santa Ski Day on December 20....
...And who couldn’t enjoy The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)? Although it’s not a Christmas film, Groundhog Day (1993) seems the perfect end to this lost year in which one day has melted into the next....
...Chocolate has long been as essential to Christmas as carols and candlelight. Over the past couple of decades, as with other festive foods, the standard has risen beyond recognition....
...They have always been so, from the glory days of the “women’s picture” in the 1940s, when Joan Crawford starred in Mildred Pierce, and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday....
...Carry the One, by Carol Anshaw, Fig Tree, RRP£7.99, 272 pages When Nick Kenney is seven or eight years old, his father suddenly cuffs him on the side of the head....
...The first was Viktor & Rolf, where designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren looked to “the Golden Age of Hollywood” (cue Jean Harlow and Joan Crawford) for a series of floor-sweeping asymmetric plissé...
...Carol Morley’s spellbinding documentary is largely about death. It was once a famous newspaper story....
...Bowler, principal private secretary, No. 10 Downing Street Andrew Hudson, director-general, Public Services, HM Treasury Catriona Laing, international director, Justice Policy Group, Ministry of Justice Carol...
...Before they hit the big time, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo “had serious work done on their teeth”, while the latter arrived in the US in 1920 showing “a fairly unprepossessing face”....
...Yours sincerely, Charles Crawford...
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