Can you believe ’tis the season again? Literally, where did the year go! With Christmas around the corner, it’s time to get cosy in over-sized jumpers, grab hold of a mulled wine and go to Christmas light switch-ons, which, in London, are pretty darn special might we add! You may have...
They say that sarcasm’s the lowest form of wit. They’re wrong, it’s got to be the pun. And yet, here at The Handbook, we’ve spent 2018 elevating it to, if not art, then at least half decent graffiti. We’ve deployed more punny headlines in 2018 than in the last ten...
Along with plagues of frogs, locusts and the slaying of first-borns, sits the curse of working between Christmas and New Year. If you’re down for the graveyard shift this year then you’ll be doubly kicking yourself under your desk while everyone else knocks back egg nog and pigs in...
I like my restaurants like I like my carparks. No, not made of poured concrete and smelling like somebody died in the stairwell: but multi-storey. There seem to be a number opening right now that it has to be something of a trend, venues with several restaurants within themselves (normally a cheap...
Before the resolutions kick in, it’s time to have one last bender, a send off for 2018. And we live in THE city for the ultimate New Year’s Eve party. Here are just 40.
Christmas time, mistletoe and wine… yes, it’s that time of year when dodging Kevin from accounts every time you pass the office mistletoe becomes an office necessity, and you drink literally gallons and gallons of wine, mostly of the mulled variety. And the best place to pour all this...
Carol concerts? Christmas trees laden with baubles? The sodding Coke advert? No, it turns out that nothing says Christmas quite like a burger. Which is why any place that’s any place are falling over themselves to produce Christmas burgers, with some of the tastiest creations hitting...
The space between Christmas and New Year is a bit of a limbo – you’ve opened your pressies, you’re awkwardly unsure of whether to check your e-mails or if it’s still Christmas break, but you’d be distracted by the festive chocolates and TV shows anyway. Boxing Day has...
We’ve waited all year for this Ladies and Gents. ‘Tis the season where we can finally lift that glass of mulled wine up to our lips with #noregrets, and it’s also the time to try all of the festive venues London are offering up. So, if you want to impress Santa this year with...
Boy can Edinburgh throw a New Year’s Eve party, that’s one thing we know for sure! And it’s a real given that the last hours of every year should be spent full of food, surrounded by fireworks, and a little (if not very) drunk. Hogmanay is believed to reach back to the...
