With the autumn weather still lingering, it’s hard to feel festive. The thought of Christmas shopping, minced pies and (endlessly) hearing Do They Know It’s Christmas just feels, well, wrong. It’s mid-November, however, which means that in just over a month we’ll all be overindulging in Christmas dinner, Quality Streets and arguing over which films […]

In just 3 days time – on November 1 – it will be Dia De Los Muertos, Day Of The Dead – that colourful and joyful Mexican holiday in which family and friends who have died are remembered and celebrated. Homemade altars with food, drink, candles and flowers – these are items that the spirits will […]