CHRISTMAS GIFT

In his biscuit-coloured factory, hundreds of workers man the production lines: teenage boys with spiky orange-dyed hair and studded leather jackets, old aunties in woollen trousers and young women who diligently focus on snapping together the shell of...

"I used to be a florist," explains Jane, (whose clients are mostly based in London, including Chanel, Harrods, Mappin & Webb and Selfridges, whose staff she’s all trained). "But I spent some time in the Far East where they put a huge amount of effort...

When, after her death, I bought Elizabeth David’s kitchen table at auction for £1,000, my husband declared I could have bought a better one for half the price at Junk City. Indignant, I countered, “You don’t understand. This is a sacred table”. He said...

“A Christmas Tree onsie? How did you guess? That’s just wonderful, I’ll add it to my pile of other super Christmas gifts: the collector’s boxed set of 50 Shades, a singing tie and ‘sexy edible candy posing pouch’. Gosh, I am lucky this year…”, you say...