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Last Orders
We deliver your Christmas present anywhere in the world - just enter the mailing address in our checkout. However, please order early for Christmas - order should arrive in time now, but we can't guarantee. Please email to request us not to put an invoice/order in the package is its a gift.

All orders after Monday 14th December will be delayed until new year. However, UK orders from eBay will be mailed 1st class from Luton right up to Christmas Eve - to see click MrBead eBay.

We have many new rings and ready-made jewellery as in the pictures on eBay that make excellent Christmas presents. However, we only have about 100 items in this shop, as apposed to around 5,000 in the main store.

Click the logo to see our UK eBay listings: All mailed fast from Luton!

Hong Kong Christmas

Do you long to escape the cold at Christmas? Do you wonder what Christmas is like in Hong Kong?

Well, it aint as you think! The festive season is best cold – at least frosty outside.  Everyone loves snow, but icy can be beautiful too.  One does not miss something until it’s lost.

Hong Kong is not warm this time of year, 12 to 14 degrees, can be more – but with little heating, it feels freezing inside.  MiMi and I use an electric blanket.  Outside is better, wrapped up and usually dry and sunny.  Noels and carols are everywhere – but it feels hollow.  Merry, not magical - I love a cosy, quaint atmosphere.

Christmas somewhere hot, like the Philippines is no better. It’s nice to get out of the cold, but if you live in the Far East, most of the year is scorching.  Mainly were basking in air-con. You see, we can boil in the sun anytime – Christmas should be different, special.

However, here in Hong Kong we enjoy British festive TV, wine, turkey and mince pies.  That’s if you’re a gwelio, a foreign devil. I guess its nostalgia - my friends down under prefer throwing king prawns on a pool-side barbe.

Chinese New Year is more fun - especially as it brightens the new year lull. In 2016 it’s on 8th February - Year of the Monkey. Sure to rock! For more on the Year of the Monkey click the link.

Free Shipping
For free shipping on our bead store enter XMAS in the box at checkout and click "Redeem Coupon".   Use NOW - as expires IN THREE DAYS Monday 14th December 2015.  No minimum order, but can only for used at MrBead.com  or MrBead.co.uk and cannot be used with any other discount or eBay.

All orders over £100 or US$150 will be mailed EMS SpeedPost - takes just 4-days!

NigelHayMckay.com

Read about the man behind MrBead and watch him make a fool of himself on YouTube at NigelHayMckay.com. Nigel will be in Norwich and Luton this Christmas - wishing for snow!

Read about Nigel's resent trips and problems on his personal blog at NigelHayMckay.com/blog. Join in and comment!

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