My  favourite way of displaying Christmas cards has to be tucked into books on bookshelves. In this way they can be all viewed together en masse in a wonderful higgledy piggledy jumble and yet, because they are confined to the bookshelves, the rest of the room can be kept card free and comparatively clear. No […]

  For me there are 3 unsurpassably wonderful Christmas biscuits, Gingerbread, Kipferl and Lebkuchen, all Germanic in origin. Over the last couple of years I’ve baked lots of these basing them on the recipes found in this lovely little book, Christmas Treats to make and give by Linda Collister (pub. Ryland Peters & Small, 2008) […]