This is our official out of office - the 🐸☕ team will be taking a much needed holiday break, ready to hit your inboxes in the New Year. We’ve loved bringing you our weekly roundup of the internet’s top tidbits and want to thank you from the bottom of our Baileys for supporting High Tea this year.
Since we plan on spending most of the break horizontal, here are some treats from the zeitgeist that we plan on diving into, along with eggnog or five. Drink up! 🥂
📖Okay, okay so these might not strike you as the ultimate feel-good reads for the festive season, but it’s going to be a toss up between my fifth (no 🧢) re-read of nyc addiction memoir, How To Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell (even better to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth on Audible, tbh) and 2019’s millennial must-have, My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. If you’re a voracious reader and have time to squeeze in one final book on that red-eye flight, it’s got to be Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith. - Alice
📺“What Child is This?” ICYMI, Baby Yoda of Disney+’s Mandalorian series officially takes the ‘virtual being of 2019’ biscuit. With the penultimate episode left on a heart-breaking cliffhanger 🥺. I’ll be tuning in on December 27th to watch the final instalment, sporting my black market Lil Bae ugly holiday sweater, ofc. - Faye
🍻Rumchata. That’s it, that’s the drink. Since being introduced to Rumchata circa Thanksgiving 2k18, nothing has been the same. I can’t even look at Bailey’s in the same way after graduating to the sweet nectar of the gods that the liquor stores of Brooklyn blessed me with. Girls can have a little Rumchata in their coffee, as a treat, right?! - Alice
📱Need some direction for 2020? Sneak away from the hubbub and download The Pattern, your own personal astrology reading based on your birth chart. Not only do Alice and I swear by it, but so does Channing Tatum 🔮 - Faye
📰 Morning Brew snatches the top spot for my favourite newsletter of 2019. Plus, an honourable mention goes to Judd Legum’s Popular Information on Substack, aka “news for people who give a damn”. Now there’s something to raise a glass to 🐸☕ - Alice
🚀 I have to mention Accelerated by the venture twins, Justine and Olivia Moore (praise be), plus another great read from Michael Dempsey’s On My Mind, covering memes, Machine Learning and Fortnite. - Faye
🎙️If podcasts are more your thing, don’t miss this incredible episode of Adam22’s No Jumper (coolest podcast in the world, you already know), with Casey Neistat - you can also watch it here 👀. Top spot for poddies this year has to go to Elizabeth Day’s How to Fail - don’t miss Jane Garvey’s episode, it’s an absolute corker. Notable mention goes to Jessie Ware’s Table Manners, although there’ll be strong competition for ‘best podcast duo’ when the The High Low returns in April 2020. 🤩- Alice & Faye
Okay, you made it. Now you can go back to your bubbles and Bublé.
ttyl,
x