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Welcome to episode two of our Christmas mini-series with me Sarah Raven and Arthur Parkinson

and in episode two we're going to concentrate on the Christmas tables

and all the things that we have done over the years, table runners,

candlesticks, making your own candlesticks,

what flowers to put on the table that last with candles,

you know, etc.

So what are you going to do for your Christmas table this year?

Well, for one of them, for a small table we've got by the door,

I'm going to do my favourite thing,

which is using dried honesty pods, which I will shell the outer shells off to reveal the tracing paper.

And then what I do is I go to the pet shop and I buy a bag of birdcage sand.

And I fill my lovely glass near of ours with the sand and Ingo the dried stems of

the honesty because the thing to remember about dried stems, if you put them in a vase of

water they go mushy but you need something to weigh that vase down with. So I quite like

bird sand. It's quite posh sand. So in the honesty goes and I always position it so the winter sun comes through and hits it because it just makes the whole room just look so amazing.

And I love doing things that you just know you can't go to liberty and buy.

I think that's the whole point of trying to do things.

But I take inspiration from films. I watched Pirates of the Caribbean a few

nights ago. And I thought, gosh, I love the idea of having pineapples, just three

pineapples down the table, surrounded with all those chocolate coins you get to make it

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