When it comes to Christmas time, that often means family coming to your house to visit. After last year, many people in England haven’t had family around for the holidays for two years! This means that you might be looking to get your house ready for the holidays, to ensure you have it presentable to impress your family. We have been spending the week decorating, updating, and getting our house ready – there is always so much to do. Hopefully, this post will help you get organised and ensure your home is Christmas ready!
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A Day Out at Lumagica – Light festival with impressive illuminations
Dann and I have been pretty into light festivals over the last few years. We have gone to Lightopia, Chihuly: Reflections and Ashford Illuminates – which have all had a different feel to them. When in Norway, we figured we’d check out Lumagica, which seems to be a worldwide light festival, but is not one either of us had heard of or attended before. Lumagica was a unique experience, but most closely seemed to be a mix of Chihuly and Lightopia, in the way it was set up and ran.
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Christmas Dinner for Two with QBag
[Ad- gifted product] When it comes to Christmas time, there are normally huge, elaborate dinners that could feed a family of ten. It doesn’t make much sense to cook a bunch of different sides when there is only two of you. My family live in an entire different continent, which means that I am probably not having a huge Christmas dinner most years. And, sometimes, you just want a large Christmas-themed dinner mid December, to get yourself into the spirit. QBag is a perfect solution for this, as you can cook an entire Christmas dinner in one bag, with very little clean up. This recipe is one that you can shift and change depending on what you want in your Christmas Dinner.
A Day Out at Larkins Farm for Christmas Trees
[Ad- gifted experience] Earlier, before all of the trees were ready, we got a chance to check out Larkins Farm and explore their Christmas Trees! Larkins Farm is a local Christmas tree farm, that has a variety of different Christmas trees waiting to be brought home for Christmas. These trees are grown naturally, with weeds all around them and free of pesticides, but have been cut down and placed into an empty field, so that people can explore them and pick out the ones they want. Larkins Farm is known for having natural and real trees – and as it is a family tradition to go out and pick out our Christmas tree, we were excited to select one!
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Four things to know about building a team
Ever since my first job in retail, at the age of 16, I’ve been running or developing teams in some way, shape or form. While. in those earlier years, I wasn’t in charge of recruitment or training, those are key parts of making a team that actually works together, and a team that works well. It took me far too long to learn that your team is an extension of your skills, and that delegating, building specialists and getting people in who work differently than you, can make a team greater than the sum of its parts. This article is about the four things that I think are essential to building and developing a great team, things that have taken me years to learn and that I wish I knew earlier.
It’s hard being in charge of a team, but it’s also hard to be part of a team that doesn’t function. There’s as much as an obligation from the people who form, train and run the team to do so well as there is on the team members to work. That degree of give and take, alongside things like clear communications and knowing your teammates’ strengths and weaknesses are what make a great team. When you think of great teams in sports, film, TV or real life, that awareness of each other’s strengths is always what allows the team overall (and as such the team members) to thrive.
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