THEGAYUK WINTER 13 /14 Issue 1
CHRISTMAS
HERE TO ‘ELF YOU...
TheGayUK has come up with the
ultimate Christmas Gift
Guide, which you can find in the
next few pages of this magazine,
packed with over 50 gift ideas for
your loved ones, and with only a
few shopping days left, we’ve
come up with these helpful tips.
everyone on the list needs to be
there!
stores and order online - and
then put your feet up.
Set a budget for each category
of your list. Especially good if
you’re on a budget yourself perhaps £50 for very close
family, £35 for friends and £10
for work colleagues.
Organise a Secret Santa,
you’ll be surprised how much this
can save you - both in time and
money.
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!
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Make a list and check it
twice. Write down who you’re
going to buy for, once you see the
list you can see whether you’ve
missed anyone off, or whether
Stay away from the highstreet! Browse the many gift
guides from the various big name
!
!
Gift yourself… Buy yourself
something nice, go on spoil
yourself!
!
Wow. That’s the most sensible
thinking we’ve been all year. ∎
HAPPY CRIMEMAS
This festive season the clock will be
turned back more than two hundred
years at The London Dungeon as a
chilling live action ghost story
unfolds on the frozen River
Thames. The Ghost of
Christmas runs from Monday,
December 2 to Sunday, January 5
and promises a wintery
whodunnit full of scares and
surprises as guests find
themselves prime suspects at the
heart of a frosty murder
investigation.
suspicion. Guests will need to get their
stories straight as they step into the icy
crime scene where the over-zealous
investigator in charge of the case is
questioning suspects – and that
means anyone who crosses his path! But
will he catch the culprit or be
hoodwinked by the tall tales of a dubious
character who seems intent on putting
him off the scent? ∎
!
From 2nd December 2013 - 5th January
2014
Prices from £22 (adult), £16.50 (children);
The Christmas Ghost show is included in
main entry price
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It's 1789. The River Thames is frozen
solid and Londoners have been enjoying
the festivities of the Christmas frost fair.
But as a body is discovered trapped
beneath the ice a murder mystery
unravels and everyone is under
‘APPY CHRISTMAS
If you’re anything like us,
you’ll need an app to keep
track of Christmas. Maybe
not. But we needed to fill
this corner of the page, so
we’re doing a Christmas
app review. Three of our
faves are the:
Countdown to
Christmas app, the
Where’s Santa app
and of course Elf
Yourself. Space
filled. Job done. ∎
Available from
iTunes (From
Free)
!
Oh
and you
must, absolutely must
check out Matt Fishel’s version of
Mariah’s Oh Santa. It’s terrifyingly
excellent. That.Is All. ∎
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Oh Santa! is released worldwide
on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play
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