Christmas cards and Christmas presents

Last minute small presents are often a challenge when you visit friends and family over the festive season. So why not have a look at what The Friends have for sale. There are two designs of cotton tea towel; one showing paintings of some of the flowers that grow wild in Holland Park and the other with paintings of autumn fruits in the park. The greetings cards ‘Holland House through the trees’ make an excellent gift, as does the handy jute shopper decorated with a tree motif.

This year’s Christmas card is a view of the ‘new’ Stable Yard in Holland Park, as it looks today, the old stables having been pulled down in 1812. The card is painted by Terry McKivragan, who painted many of the earlier Holland Park cards. You can also see a Christmas card depicting the Holland Park Café with the splendid view of Jacobean Holland House beyond.

The standard greeting on all Christmas cards is “With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year”, but you can choose to ask for them blank.

We hold a supply of these cards, with greetings, in three options:
• Standard, 152 mm x 197 mm format at £7.00 for five. 
• Smaller, 118 mm x 168 mm at £12.00 for ten.  
• Mixed packs of ten designs of Holland Park from past years, at £6.50. These will be mostly the larger size and in three or four different designs.  

In addition, there is a range of other Holland Park cards, which you can find on Mountbatten’s website, mountbattencards.com .

Both cards are available to buy from the Park Reception Office in the Stable Yard and from our website. Click HERE to buy cards online and HERE for merchandise. 

The local retailers in our Friends & Neighbours discount scheme offer lots of ideas for presents: stylish gifts from The Design Museum shop, presents for the home from Lipp, plants and flowers from Rassell’s, and picture framing from Gallery 19.  The Kensington Health Club and Spa offers beauty treatments as does Threads. Or enjoy some holiday cheer at one of the restaurants and cafés in our scheme. The Holland Park Café has mulled wine and hot soup to warm you on your visit to the park, all offered with a 15% discount for members of The Friends. 

The participants in our programme support us with a special price for our members, and we should support them. A full list of our participating Neighbours, and discounts they offer, is on the Friends’ website.

Rhoddy Wood

[November 2024]