Letter to Mr Santa Claus, c/o The North Pole

Dear Santa,

Since I hear you’re making a list and checking it twice, I thought I’d drop you a line with a few suggestions for my Christmas stocking this year. Now I know you’ve got a thing about people being nice so I’ve been trying not to cry or pout and I’ve barely been naughty at all recently. Really. Well, Ok then, define naughty. I mean you’re not going to hold the chocolate and the champagne against me are you...? Are you?

I admit I haven’t always been sleeping when I should but honestly, it’s not my fault – there are just so many fantastic restaurants and bars to try, and well, I get a little excited, and then before you know it, it’s past my bedtime...

Anyway, well, if you do see the way clear to giving me a little something this year here are some ideas. You don’t even have to wrap them.


• More kitchen bench space - about 2m would do

• Red Kitchenaid StandMixer

• Stephanie Alexander’s Kitchen Garden Companion

• Toasted sandwich maker

• A shower with two showerheads

• New, less nosy and intrusive neighbours

• More privacy on my balcony to shield me from existing, nosy and intrusive neighbours

• Return ticket to Paris via Barcelona and London

• Bottle of Pedro Ximinez sherry

• An espresso machine

• A hitherto undiscovered Great, Great Aunt with a large fortune, a dodgy ticker and no other relatives


Thanks Santa, you rock!

Love,
Ylla x

(PS: has anyone ever told you that red is really your colour?)