Things to do: Winter Edition

• If you have a fire, use it to toast marshamallows or crumpets
• Scented candles make a home smell lush
• Go sledging if there's snow
• Buy a huge mug for hot chocolates and cosy up with a good book
• Recommended reading for Christmas: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, A Christmas Carol, The Night Before Christmas...
• Or watch a film; Edward Scissorhands, It's a Wonderful Life, Elf, A Muppet's Christmas Carol, anything that's a costume drama, the Christmas episode of My So-Called Life, anything Disney or magical, The Wizard of Oz, The Snowman, Father Christmas, Little Women, The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Recommended Christmas music: A Very She & Him Xmas, Phil Spector's A Christmas Gift for You, A Fairytale of New York, Edward Scissorhands Soundtrack, Emmy the Great & Tim Wheeler This is Christmas, Pink Martini Joy to the World
• Learn to knit
• Wrap your pjs over a hot water bottle 10 minutes before bed for toasty bed clothes
• Make hearty soups, broths and stews
• Go ice skating. In London the best places are Somerset House, The Natural History Museum or Canary Wharf
• Get back to nature and go for a walk in a park or in the country. Take a thermos of hot tea or soup with you
• Go and see The Nutcracker
• If you are in London, go to see the displays at Selfridges and Liberty
• Get Christmas themed cookie cutters and bake some yummy biscuits then ice in white, green and red
• Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland
• The Christmas Market at the Southbank
• Cosy up in festive jumpers