Cards on the table

Sharan Sammi, 44, lives with her family in Wolverhampton. When a Christmas card plops through my letterbox, I think ‘Oh no! Where am I going to put this?’ From a decluttering point of view, Christmas

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LET me state at the outset that I am not a nosy-parker, not a busybody and definitely not in the habit of opening other people’s post. But one December, it started. I found it on the hall mat with my

Christmas stamps, as featured on this year’s COUNTRY LIFE Advent calendar cover, are a cherished annual event– but how did they become one? Emma Hughes investigates

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