{"id":100124,"date":"2020-10-07T11:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=100124"},"modified":"2020-10-07T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:21:56","slug":"festive-food-shows-and-gift-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/dale-franklin\/festive-food-shows-and-gift-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive food shows and gift ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I hope all’s well…<\/p>\n

As autumn starts to unfurl its magnificent russet and golden spectacular for us, it always coincides with a very busy time at The Q… as we launch into full Christmas preparation mode.<\/p>\n

At home, Toby celebrated his 12th birthday with a special “dog safe” birthday cake that my daughter Ali bought him. His foot is well on the mend and he now goes for walks without his protective boot \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

This Friday Andi Peters and I have two shows! The ‘Andi Peters’ Food Fest’ is on at 1pm and again at 6pm for two hours. The day is devoted to festive food and we’ll be featuring a Today’s Special Value (TSV) from German luxury confectionery brand Lambertz, who have been making speciality gingerbread and Printen since 1688.<\/p>\n

The TSV takes the form of two beautiful hinged Stag Tins<\/strong> each filled with a three layer selection of their spectacular German gingerbreads including Aachen Printen and Dominosteine, with a\u00a0total of 108 pieces and 1.5kg in weight!<\/p>\n\"\"\n

As a boy growing up I always loved the taste of “gingerbread men” but in the UK our gingerbread is usually a brittle biscuit whereas in Germany, it’s more like a cake consistency with a glorious ginger and cinnamon flavour all draped in a beautiful chocolate coating.<\/p>\n

For me it’s very much one of the tastes of the many German-style Christmas markets that have been so popular around the UK in past years. Although unfortunately this year may well be different, we can still enjoy the essence of the market at home courtesy of Lambertz and perhaps a little mulled wine \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

We’ll have many of the usual brands in the shows as well as Gail Samways with Lambertz, brilliantly standing in for our popular German guest, Hubert, who hopefully will join us by video link from Germany. We have offerings from H Forman & Son<\/a>, Hotel Chocolat,<\/a> Joe & Seph’s<\/a>, Flower & White<\/a> and many more luxury food brands.<\/p>\n

Friday’s ‘A Taste of Christmas’ event is just the start of a whole weekend of festive preparations with some exciting offers, designed to help us fill those Christmas gift lists and provide ideas and solutions to hopefully make this Christmas one to remember for all the right reasons.<\/p>\n

I’ll be bringing some sparkling ideas at 3pm Saturday with a ‘Diamonique Gifts<\/a>‘ show and some great ‘Top Tech<\/a>‘ ideas at 5pm. The show will include an item that will be on many wish lists this Christmas, a Rush Charge<\/strong> Trident 4000mAh Portable Charger<\/strong> for Apple and Android devices – basically with today’s “power hungry” smartphones and tablets, you’ll always be able to have the ability to re-charge wherever you are. It’s our TSV on the day and is bound to be popular, it even charged my iPad.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

It has an ingenious design having built-in Apple lightening, USB type-C and micro USB connectors. Plus, it has a USB connector to re-charge it, so you don\u2019t need to carry around three or four different leads with it! I\u2019m sure guest James Murden will have an even bigger smile on his face than usual when he finds out the price too \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

On Sunday I’ll be showcasing some stylish fashion from MarlaWynne<\/a> at midday and back again at 2pm for two hours of ‘Inspirational Christmas’.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> “Yes Dale but what if what I order is unsuitable on the “big day” I’m well out of my return period aren’t I?”<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> Au contraire mon amis (no idea why I went into French there?), as we have extended our already generous 60 day money back guarantee<\/a> until the 31st of January 2021!<\/p>\n

So, as always you can order from The Q with confidence.<\/p>\n

I hope you can join Andi and I on Friday at 1pm and again at 6pm and perhaps myself across the weekend at some point… as always, it’ll be great for me to have your company.<\/p>\n

Until next time… stay well, well fed and well sparkly \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Dale x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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