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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
After a whirlwind month of giveaways, Christmas stories and delicious recipe ideas, we’re just about ready for a break. The blog team will be taking a break until January 3rd 2014, but the website is open for business – you can see our opening hours and delivery times for over the Christmas period here.
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What’s Your Budget? Alternative Christmas Gift Ideas
We know how this Christmas story goes: Dad’s getting a novelty tie. Mum’s heading for some new perfume. There’s a Cliff Richard calendar for nan in there somewhere, and Christmas shopping is shaping up to be exactly the same as last year. A recent survey by the Office for National Statistics suggests that our Christmas spending habits haven’t changed since 2006, but what about the gifts we buy? If you’re stuck buying the same thing every year, here are some alternative Christmas gift ideas for exactly the same old price. So without further ado…
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Six Unusual Wedding Presents (and the stories behind them)
As you’ll no doubt have noticed, the wedding season is in full swing. So in celebration of the many big days happening all across the country at the moment, we asked some of our friends and colleagues to tell us some of the, lets just say… more unusual wedding presents they or their friends have received. Here are a few of our favourites: 1. Electronic Singing Fish
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Snow Globes
We discovered an amazing collection of snow globes in the office of RLD’s very own Head of HR. We had to find out the stories behind some of Anne’s most prized possessions, she has over 80 snow globes originating from rom Hong Kong to Las Vegas to Cambodia and beyond, so we chose a few of our favourites to focus on. Read on to find out about this snowy collection.