| | Make your own wreath,
London-style, baby | | A Christmas home without a wreath is like a plate of chips with no ketchup or Leonard Cohen minus his trilby. Sadly incomplete. A wreath is that one detail any self-respecting Festive Frankie cannot do without, so it is with great pleasure we introduce this rather wonderful list of London’s best DIY kits. Go on, get wreathing. |
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Fingers on buzzers
Which Bakerloo Line station shares its name with a 2008 song by Duffy? |
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| Three films I’ll be streaming immediately | | |
| The uplifting one | | ‘Bullitt’ director Peter Yates could do two wheels as well as four. Unlike that tyre-burning Steve McQueen thriller, ‘Breaking Away’ is a story of working-class high school pals trying to win a cycling race that aims for the heart rather than the adrenal gland. Amazon Prime |
| | The spooky one | | I love revisiting ‘The Endless’, partly to marvel at its low-budget atmospherics and partly to try to figure out WT actual F is going on at its dusty cult homestead. As a one-time X-phile, Americans being weird in remote locations appeals to me. Netflix |
| | The family one | | Despite my name literally meaning ‘lover of horses’, I’m not a massive fan. But I do enjoy ‘The Black Stallion’, a magical kids’ own tale of a horse and a boy shipwrecked on a desert island. Full of shimmery visuals. Amazon Prime |
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| See some stunning Christmas trees | | | | Your tree is nice and all, but sometimes you want to gawp at something a bit more colossal. Lucky for you, you live in London and the capital is home to a great many very spectacular Christmas trees. True, many are not strictly ‘trees’, but let's not allow details like that ruin our fun, hey? Big, triangular, festive and magical. Tick, tick, tick and tick. |
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| London news that you can use | | | | Fried gold | | Fish ’n’ chips is officially London’s most iconic dish | | |
| | | Sky high | Work on the City’s tallest building is
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| | | | Baubles and beer | | Why the capital’s most festive boozer matters this year more than ever | | |
| | | West Ender | | Comedian Dane Baptiste on the street that changed his whole damn life | | |
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