That festive time of year filled with family, friends, food and fun is just around the corner - and we have so much to do…
Many of us are pulling those dog eared, hand scrawled and butter stained recipes out from behind the stack of new and fabulously photographed cookbooks that have now taken pole position on our kitchen shelves. These recent and modish culinary tomes with their retro bound, matt finished gorgeousness have been impolitely obscuring the familiar ragged brown folder with teenage doodles earnestly framing the words ' My Recipes '. The folder where Aunty Yvonne’s Christmas cake recipe and Mum’s almond icing recipe sit waiting patiently year after year for their annual outing. This year the forlorn folder has slipped unnoticed down the back of the shelves and takes some persistence to locate. The Christmas cake tin is proving as elusive as the recipe folder and the lid from the steamed pudding dish is nowhere to be found. It is a long time between Christmases.
Miraculously each year the frenzy does subside. As the time left before Christmas grows shorter so does the long list of to dos that has been furtively rummaging around in the bottom of my bag filling me with a sense of horror every time I glance at it - there is no longer time for procrastination.
Come Christmas morning the crush of urgency is forgotten and we find ourselves, champagne flute in hand, happy to be with those we love and enjoying a day of celebration; whether we crossed everything off that list or not and maybe even if the steamed pudding is a little soggy.

If interior decoration crises are fueling your Christmas panic we have a delightful array of festive furniture at Haunt. There is a wonderful selection of rustic workbenches in stock at the moment - the perfect Christmas sideboard. They are all waiting to display bottles of Christmas cheer and abundant platters of food and don’t forget mirrors to reflect your Christmas sparkle …