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recommendations for your christmas list

Ok, well, I took down my last post because some oversensitive New Yorkers got really mad at me and threatened legal action and I only wrote it as a favour anyway. RIP my brief socialite career.

It’s the first Sunday of Advent today. It’s coming up to a full year since I became a Catholic—on Friday, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception—so I’ll write something about that over the next few days. It’s strange being in London for it. When I was here two years ago, working for the Church of England, there was such a sad desperation about traipsing around Catholic churches, sneaking into Maiden Lane in my lunch break, praying for the courage to swim the Tiber. Now I can go to confession at St James’s Spanish Place and I can go up to the altar rail and take communion at the Oratory, which feels extraordinary.

It looks like I’ll be in London through December. I have to decide whether to take some time out of my DPhil and I’m not doing brilliantly so please message me if there are any particularly good carol services, etc.

Below are a handful of recommendations for Christmas presents which might appeal to people who read this Substack.

Love,

Rose

x

P.S. pls subscribe so I can afford to buy the perfume listed below.