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to your collection as time, finances and inclination allow. • There is a wealth of decorating materials costing from pence to pounds in the shops just now. Decorations range from tiny /springs of . plastic holly for the Christmas cake to enormous fake Christmas trees that look so real you could be forgiven for trying to plant them out for next year! . In, fact, the simplest things probably make for the most spec-


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•' Decorate to a theme for best results. Take a colour or shape and build your decorating theme


round it.- , • Fans, for example, can look stunning standing upright along


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:'ibonsbrJbrighttinsel;garlands.; Baskets'can be'another theme.:


pings make very suitable materi­ als for this purpose. ,, < Candles have a seasohal quality about them, especially the bright­ ly Coloured red and green ones. Make your own candle displays on a saucer with the candle and other decorations set m an oasis. Deco­ rations can include sprigs of holly or pine, artificial or dried flowers and the odd ribbon. Assembled round the base of thexandle so both oasis and Saiicer are con-


- cealed, they look professional and '■


' Tiny wicker creations, filled with • seasonally coloured flowers or


. fruit and hung in groups from cor- . ners, light fittings or in front of a


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lookat what your local depart--,- ment store is doing this year. Gen-;t erally, these professionally-invent- ed displays look very expensive. Look closer, however, and you will probably find they have been made from basically inexpensive materials .p u t ; together with colour, flair and sticky-backed


plastic. Decorate the fruit bowls. Cover


some of the fruit with foil or coloured tissueT I f you do not have sufficient bowls, cover an old flower pot, bulb bowl or box with wrapping and fill with fruit in the usual way. If you wish to display flowers, make your vases seasonal


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with care, ’Natural trees are love-? ly, of course, but unless you are;, very careful, even if the roots have. not been disturbed, the needles will start to drop as soon as th e ; warm air of the home touches., them. Artificial trees last for ever and retain their built-in good; looks, year after festive year. P art of dressing the house., includes dressing the festive, table..


Be wise, unless it is just you and your partner, go for paper table- cloth and napkins. Make a colour­ ful centrepiece either with candles,1?; fruit or a combination of both'and ’


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A' . ‘ ■ Cracking facts about crackers. . . ■ Christmas crackers were invented 150 t I f


years ago by Londoner Tom Smith, who, noticed during a trip to P an s how attractive sweets were when wrapped in


colourful paper.


■ On returning to London, he, devel­ oped his own version of sweets wrapped in paper and added a message or joke.


• ■ The snap was added later. The inspi- . ration came when Tom, was spending


' Christmaspay sitting in front of a log, - fire and'Saw his children cheering every


■ time the logs in the fire cracked. ; , ■ By the end of the 19th Century,


crackers were well established as a ■ Christmas tradition m Bntain.


■ Christmas crackers are now a sophis­ ticated multi-million pound business (withannual sales of around £70 mil- lion) and an estimated 130 million indi­ vidual crackers are expected to be pulled this Christmas.


1 ■ In 1927, a young man sent an engage- ment ring (and a 10 shilling note to cover costs).to Tom Smith Co., asking


-- for a special cracker to be used m a pro- posal to his beloved. Unfortunately, the hapless romantic forgot to send his name and address. The ring and the


note remain with the company to this day. ,


■ The bang is caused when a cracker is pulled by friction being caused on a nar­ row strip of paper which is chemically impregnated with an explosive sub-,


stance. . , ' ■ Special crackers are produced each


year for the Royal household, although designs and contents are a closely- guarded secret. •


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■ Cracker snaps attached to string were used by soldiers in training during the Second World War to mimic gunfire.


■ Love verses were featured origmally on mottos, being replaced by puzzles


, and cartoons and, finally, by comy jokes and riddles. ■


■ Automation has speeded up the man­ ufacture of crackers, but all snaps are still placed by hand.


■ A water fountain in Finsbury Square,


London, where crackers were fust made, commemorates the life of the inventor of the cracker, Tom Smith.


■ Tom Smith Group Ltd. continues to thrive. The company is now based in Norwich. > ‘


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DAS. Rhian recommends the following who gets on well with everyone r • A-i*1 , \


• five steps to help keep the peace in poten- 4. Be tolerant of each others different. 5 tially testing situations this Christmas., habits or lifestyles and try.to tumabhnd-, 1. Share around difficult family ^mem- eye to minor things with which you hap­


pens or guests so that no single person has pen to disagree. Moderate your own ' to bear the brunt for too long


■ - 2. Draw up a seating plan to. separate. avoid contentious topics those who do not get on ,


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• Being in public usually puts people on . % Remember, too, that.if ^hings do get •


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• Christmas. Should anyonetcomplain. about the presence of another^ suggest they spare a thought for. those who do n o t . have anyone with whom to share the hoi-, iday period. - 1


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YOU should not let retailers I get away with giving you al mean deal during the run-up I to Christmas, says John! Bridgeman, Director General|


of Fair Trading. • I t is easy to.be fobbed off withl


excuses when shops are really l busy and people are rushing to l stock up for Christmas. For al quiet life, many people just put upl with second-rate goods and ser-T vices rather than stand up for] their rights and complain. Bad service and faulty goods will


contmue as long as we are prepared to put up with them, says Mij Bridgeman. One of the biggest areas of com-J


plaint to trading standards officer all around the country concerns thd buying and hiring of televisions! radios, video equipment and othei| electrical goods. Around 70,000 complaints a yea


from this sector may be the tip ol the iceberg because it is not knowif how many people cannot be both-| ered to complain, or do not knov where to get redress. In recent years, Mr Bndgeman’|


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