{"id":101890,"date":"2020-12-10T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T08:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=101890"},"modified":"2020-12-10T08:27:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T08:27:23","slug":"the-countdown-commences-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/jackie-kabler\/the-countdown-commences-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The countdown commences!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi all,<\/p>\n

I\u2019m finally feeling festive! It\u2019s taken a while this year, but with only a couple of weeks to go now until Christmas it\u2019s finally grabbed me, yay! The tree is up at home, the presents are (mostly) bought and wrapped, and plans are underway for a quiet but nice festive few days.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve even been able to take a short break from writing (which I spend a lot of time doing when I\u2019m not at QVC!) for a few weeks as the deadline for my next book was the first of December, so that\u2019s now gone off to my editor. It\u2019s called The Happy Family, it\u2019s another psychological thriller, and it will be out next summer.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

That\u2019s freed up more running time (my other great love, as lots of you will know) so I managed to squeeze in another half marathon at the weekend, this time at a real event! It was so nice to run with other people again, albeit at a social distance, and the organisers did an amazing job of making it Covid-safe. It\u2019s a very different experience running a race where you have your temperature taken at the start line, and everyone starts in tiny, spaced out groups at intervals several minutes apart, but just being able to run at an event again was so wonderful.<\/p>\n

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QVC Presenter Jackie tries out the Dyson Corrale<\/a><\/h4>\n

QVC Presenter Jackie Kabler road-tests the brilliant Dyson Corrale hair straightener.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n