Andrea’s It List: The Ultimate Winter Survival Kit

While the weather has been unusually mild this week, the first trickle of invites to seasonal drinks has arrived in my inbox signalling the inevitable countdown to holiday season.

There’s a certain romance that comes with this time of year – snuggling up in your favourite cashmere and hotels framed by frosted windows – but beyond the curated elegance of the season lies a more practical truth: when temperatures drop and the evenings draw in, we’re more likely to feel sluggish and get ill. It’s around this time of year I start building my personal winter survival kit – key essentials that will keep me warm, motivated, healthy and active, even on those dark mornings when all I want to do is stay in bed.