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Countdown to Christmas: Advent Calendars
Countdown to Christmas
Countdown to Christmas is style with these advent calendars that are full of wonderful treats for a daily mini-pamper.
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CHANEL N°5 THE CALENDAR HOLIDAY - £610
Shaped like an enormous bottle of N°5, this holiday calendar was designed as a work of art and is available in limited quantities. It contains some of the CHANEL House’s most iconic products. Among its many surprises are a limited-edition ROUGE ALLURE lipstick inspired by N°5, LE VERNIS in a new shade of red, and a bottle of N°5 Eau de Parfum, as well as a bracelet bearing the number 5, a one-of-a-kind snow globe, and a host of other accessories dedicated to the fragrance and designed just for the occasion. www.chanel.com
Featuring a curated selection of L’OCCITANE favourites, our Luxury Advent Calendar is for the gifter, or self-gifter, to indulge in a little pampering in the lead up to the holidays. You will uncover a delighta-day, including a full-sized product every week, best-sellers such as our world-renowned Shea Butter Hand Cream, Almond Shower Oil and Divine Cream as well as new scents, hair care products, skincare and makeup. Oh, and another thing about our Premium Calendar... we encourage you to continue using it after the 25th December. With its delicate design and gold foil stamping, it transforms into the perfect place to stash your jewellery. uk.loccitane.com
Clarins invites you to discover a world of Festive Wonders with our collection of Christmas treats. Our Women’s 12 Day Beauty Advent Calendar is back and bursting with Clarins classics. 12 days of joy including a full size Supra Volume Mascara and Intense Natural Lip Perfector and 10 travel-size treats, from skincare to make-up must-haves. www.clarins.co.uk
L’OCCITANE CLASSIC ADVENT CALENDAR - £55
Our timeless Classic Advent Calendar holds an array of our most-loved products, made with ingredients cared for by our cherished producers. You will find our iconic Verbena and Almond shower products, youthboosting Immortelle skincare, and our best-selling product… Shea Butter Hand Cream! uk.loccitane.com
Clarins Men’s 12 Day Self-Care Advent Calendar includes products and 10 travel-size treats, from skin to body care all must haves for him. Try the best-selling products from our men’s range and find your firm favourites. You’ll be left feeling refreshed and ready for the new year. www.clarins.co.uk
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How to teach your children about...Sustainability
As a parent it’s important to lead by example and educate your children about sustainability from the offset. But what is the best way to teach your little ones about sustainability?
1. Share clothes When your children outgrow their clothes don’t just throw away or push to the back of the wardrobe but explain to your children that someone else is going to love their clothes and pass it on to their siblings or friends. Recycling outgrown and unwanted clothes will help to avoid buying more items.
2. Make recipes with leftover food There’s nothing that’s more shameful that throwing food away, all because we’ve cooked or bought too much. As a nation we throw away more than 4.5 million tonnes of food each year1 and so its important that we all do our bit to reuse leftovers. From making soups and pies there are plenty of recipes out there and get your children involved in cooking a fun meal together with the leftover ingredients.
3. Walk to places where possible Teach your children that its important to walk to places instead of jumping in the passenger seat. From walking to school and to the local shop, public health research shows that children who do some form of exercise, especially a walk, before school do better in class2. Not to mention the positive effects such as lowering emissions.
4. Get crafty From the bottles, jars and boxes that quicky fill up the recycling bin can offer hours of fun for kid’s craft projects. Milk carton bird feeder to homemade musical instruments are some of the many things you can make with the recycling and the best part of getting crafty is that it offers a fun lesson in sustainability.
5. Have fun in the garden Another great way for teaching your children about sustainability is to spend time in the garden. By having the fulfilment of growing your own fruit and vegetables and using your food waste to make compost. Gardening will teach your children to love recycling since they will be able to see and enjoy the benefits.
BusinessWaste.co.uk campaigns for tighter laws to discourage littering, wasteful behaviour, and to encourage greater recycling. We’re the waste company that hates waste. n
CHRISTMAS
Santa at the Schoolroom
New Christmas experience this December
Think of one of the most magical buildings in Stratford-upon-Avon, add a sprinkle of fairy dust and the result is Santa at the Schoolroom. This enchanting family experience, created by Tell Tale Presents, will be taking place for the first time at Shakespeare’s Schoolroom & Guildhall.
Visitors will embark on a journey through the 600 year old building, with lots of Christmas characters to meet along the way including Santa, who will be making himself at home by the fireplace in the Master’s Chamber.
A festive quiz gets things underway in the Guildhall, where fun-loving Puck will share riddles and Thursday the Elf will tell a Christmas story. The Georgian Schoolroom will be full of Christmas crafts and games. And the revelry will continue with a ‘What the Dickens?’ encounter in Shakespeare’s Schoolroom with Charles Dickens.
Tickets are £10 per person (under 2s free). The experience lasts between one hour and one hour and 20 minutes. Participants will receive a small gift from Santa.
Dates: Saturday 11 December; Sunday 12 December; Saturday 18 December; Sunday 19 December; Monday 20 December; Tuesday 21 December; Wednesday 22 December; Thursday 23 December.
Book tickets: ShakespearesSchoolroom.org display. n
A Magical Night time light display in time for Diwali
Sunday, November 7 at 4.30pm
A magical night-time light display is set to roll through the streets of Coventry in time for Diwali as part of a city-wide celebration of some of the city’s most significant historic landmarks.
Lullaby - a moving light and sound artwork created with help from Coventry citizens – will travel through residential areas on over 100 illuminated bicycles in November.
The flotilla of lights on two convoys of decorated bicycles will be accompanied by music and specially-commissioned bike bells, which will begin their journeys on Sunday, November 7 at 4.30pm. One route will pass by the Starley memorial in London Road Cemetery, a key historic landmark in Coventry’s heritage story. The other route will leave from Foxford School and ride through Longford before arriving at Foleshill Road.
Lullaby, created by Bristol-based artist Luke Jerram, will also feature as part of Abundance, a City of Culture event celebrating light, hope and freedom beginning and ending at the Indian Community Centre on Cross Road in Foleshill.
Qualified group leaders from British Cycling will guide two flotillas of bicycles playing the relaxing soundscape through the streets of Longford and Cheylesmore before converging in Foleshill at a cultural procession for Diwali.
The display will feature an ambient sound composition by Dan Jones and Guy Hughes as it travels through residential streets, arriving in the heart of Coventry’s South Asian community.
The bicycles will ride past memorials in London Road Cemetery in honour of James and John Kemp Starley, the godfathers of bicycle invention, ringing the specially-tuned bells designed by sound collective Friend or Foe. tricycle cab – decorated with lighting designed by local artist Avtar Kaur, while Sustrans, which is behind the National Cycle Network, will host creative workshops on the day of the ride. Students from Foxford Secondary School, Blue Coat Secondary School, Earlsdon Primary School and All Saints Primary School will help Avtar prepare the pedicabs while decorating their own bicycles.
The project is part of the activity programme supporting the National Lottery-funded restoration of London Road Cemetery – a partnership between Coventry City Council and Historic Coventry Trust.
Sarah Allen, at Historic Coventry Trust, which is presenting Lullaby, said: “Luke Jerram’s Lullaby is a great way to connect young people and families in the city with this year’s Diwali celebrations, and is set to be a real spectacle on a dark November evening.
“School pupils will be able to get involved by decorating their own bicycles before joining the convoy, while residents can enjoy the mesmerising sound and light display passing their front doors. “The event will be part of a major City of Culture event that will see exciting displays and performances bringing a real sense of community to the city in a very visible way, and we’d love to see people sharing their photos of Lullaby on Twitter via #LullabyCoventry.”
The first Lullaby took place in Bristol in 2013 and has since featured in Tilburg, Holland; Portland in Dorset; Derry, Northern Ireland; Perth, Australia and the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival in London.
The project is being brought to Coventry with the support of National Heritage Lottery Fund, National Lottery Community Fund and Coventry City of Culture Trust, presented by Historic Coventry Trust in partnership with Coventry City Council and Arup, which has provided the lights featured in the display. n
