December favourites.

I've never actually done one of these 'favourites' posts before but we're trying all sorts of new posts this Blogmas so today I thought I'd share a few of the things I've been digging this December!

My first favourite is this gingerbread green tea from Twinings. Gingerbread lattes are probably my favourite seasonal treat (in fact I drink them all through the year) but I've been trying to cut down on my coffee intake recently and this makes an excellent and delicious substitute! I like green tea anyway but I'm not usually so keen on flavoured tea, but the balance in this gingerbread tea is just perfect.

I finally listened to the Hamilton cast recording near the end of November, after months of watching people online talk about it all the time (has it been months or did it just feel like months?), and I have listened to little else since. It's completely amazing. I've had this and my Christmas mix on rotation for this entire month and I am loving every second of it.

Lush's winter products are a favourite every year but this year I bought Magic Wand for the first time and now I'm obsessed. Usually I can get two or three baths out of a Lush bubble bar but I think I got about six or seven baths out of my first Magic Wand (and yes I have already bought a second) and every one has had a great amount of bubbles and smelled delicious.

My next favourite is the youtube webseries Lovely Little Losers. Lovely Little Losers is a sequel to the webseries Nothing Much To Do, which I blogged about last year, this time based on Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Lovely Little Losers recently finished (I think...) and it has definitely been a favourite since it started but these last few weeks have just been the absolute best (thanks in part to my new fictional husband Costa.)

My last December favourite is really just festive fashion in general, but in particular I have been really enjoying my Christmas tree hat and bag. I've worn these basically every time I've left the house this month and I am already sad that I'll have to put them away in a couple of weeks. I'll be counting down the days until next December when I can wear them again!

What have been some of your favourites this month?

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Nothing Much To Do.

Nothing Much To Do.

I made cheesecake brownies yesterday but I don't think they turned out quite right. The brownie part is more melted chocolate than brownie, which you might think would be okay but there's just something not quite right about it...

Anyway, while I was making said cheesecake brownies I also watched the entire of the webseries linked above, Nothing Much To Do, and it turned out to be infinitely better than the brownies so let's talk about that instead.

Nothing Much To Do is a modern vlog style adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing set in New Zealand with an all teenaged character sheet. I did study Much Ado About Nothing in my first year of uni but I'm certain that even if you've never read or seen or even heard of Much Ado About Nothing you'll still enjoy Nothing Much To Do.

In the screenshots at the top of this post you can see our main players, Hero and Beatrice and Benedick and Claudio, who are all wonderfully cast. We also have, among others, 'all round great guy' Pedro and his musical friend Balthazar (who records lovely covers of Mumford and Sons songs and quietly smiles his way through most of the videos he features in) and the young wannabe Sherlocks, Dogberry and Verges (whose videos track them looking for a lost cat and accidentally discovering everyone else's secrets instead.)

The whole series is comprised of 76 videos on three different channels, all clocking in together at around 4 hours, which may sound like a lot to those of you less familiar with the practice of binge watching than myself but trust me when I say it will fly by. Before you know it you'll find yourself looking back over the past four hours of your life and wishing you had made it last a little while longer. Then you'll be pleased to know that the creators of this series are working on a sequel! Lovely Little Losers is to feature a few characters from Nothing Much To Do, along with some newcomers, and it's loosely based on Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, which is one I know nothing about so excuse me while I get reading...

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