Christmas Stories from Ruritania: Recent Episodes
Tobias Sturt
The Apartment Store is in business: it must be - there are customers on the stairs.
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
Lydia finds herself in the last place she expected as Artie’s publicity campaign continues
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
Artie takes Lydia out on a new campaign to spread ‘word of mouth’
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
Lydia discovers a disaster in the Olympic Mini-supermarket’s new Christmas department
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
The first meeting of the staff & inhabitants of the all new Apartment Store
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
Lydia and Artie discover the secret of Mr Krebs’ basement
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
Artie begins to recruit other occupants of the building to Lydia’s idea: an Apartment Store
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
The Family M entertain Artie & Lydia in their special Christmas room, and Lydia has an idea
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
Lydia takes Artie to the Olympic Mini-Supermarket to meet Mr M, her father’s employer
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes everything for everyone in it.
The Apartment Store is a book length Christmas story of twelve chapters, split into twenty four episodes for Advent.
Lydia starts introducing her friends to their new neighbour: Otto Krampus, the disgraced former owner of the Krampus department store
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
Chapter 2 - The Neighbour (Part 2) Lydia and her father treat their new neighbour to breakfast and discover that he’s quite a lot more interesting than they imagined
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
Chapter 2 - The Neighbour (Part 1) Lydia’s Christmas appears to be utterly ruined when she and her father discover that they have a new neighbour
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
Chapter 1 - Lydia (Part 2) Lydia helps Mr M and her father create a new ‘Christmas display’ for the Olympic Mini-supermarket, that might not be quite festive enough
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
Chapter 1 - Lydia (Part 1) All Lydia wants for Christmas is a new father - hers is just too irritating, old fashioned and dull - but then, she’s never got what she wanted for Christmas before
The Apartment Store is the story of Lydia, a little girl who lives in a ramshackle attic apartment, in a ramshackle apartment building, down the ramshackle end of town. All Lydia wants is a proper Christmas, but it doesn't seem likely until a new tenant arrives in their building and changes Christmas for everyone in it.
In which Mr Timothy Hope discovers an awful lot of things, about the expedition, about his friends, but most importantly about himself, and prepares to have a very Happy Christmas and an even happier life.
In which Mr Timothy Hope has his finest hour as he finally puts into action his plan to protect the mysterious Nicholas from the ghastly Baronet Oxshott, with many alarums, incursions, emergencies and revelations.
In which Mr Timothy Hope sleeps badly, but does not let that distract him from his cunning, if desperate, plan to defend Joulutontti.
In which Mr Timothy Hope fails to find out more about the strange place in which the expedition has ended up and Baronet Oxshott turns out not to be gone at all.
In which Mr Timothy Hope tries to get to bottom of things and ends up building a steam-driven toy train instead, but does at least meet their mysterious, but very jolly, host.
In which Timothy Hope arrives at a strange house hidden away at the top of the world, but is this the true goal of the expedition?
In which Timothy Hope goes for a balloon ride across the top of the world, but Baronet Oxshott punctures everyone's fun
In which Mr Timothy Hope faces a seemingly insurmountable obstacle and proceeds to surmount it by the unlikely tactic of taking to the air in a boat.
In which Timothy Hope finds himself stranded and invents a whole new form of transportation, with the help of some portable stoves, some luggage straps and Harry's unlikely stockings.
In which Timothy Hope finds himself on expedition rations, but its not just the expedition that's going hungry.
In which Timothy Hope takes a journey by dog sled, which takes him into some very precarious places indeed.
In which Timothy Hope first encounters the true glories of the Arctic in a reindeer sleigh ride and the splendour of the northern lights
In which Timothy Hope struggles to free the train from an avalanche and goes ice skating with wolves.
In which Timothy Hope attempts to preserve a shark and ends up getting somewhat wind-dried himself but, at least, manages to cross into the Arctic Circle
In which Timothy Hope arrives in Norway and attends a dinner with speeches, where Oxshott takes exception to dinner, chairs are thrown and an hasty exit must be beaten.
In which Timothy Hope finds that all that stands between him and dry land are bad weather and a shark, but there's nothing that can be overcome with the application of ingenuity and Baronet Oxshott's fists.
In which Timothy Hope joins Lord Daunt's expedition but begins to wonder whether Professor Cumulus is precisely the kind of person they should be following.
In which Timothy Hope stows away and subsequently discovers that he does not like lifeboats, rough seas, bread and cheese and, most of all, stowing away.
In which Timothy Hope makes the acquaintance of a seagull called Walter, and Walter makes the acquaintance of a hat, a wig and a beard, with almost disastrous results.
In which Timothy Hope devises some unique en route entertainment for Baronet Oxshott, who proves to be a troublesome travelling companion