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ADVENT-URE

Tomorrow, we will launch our advent calendar. It is already up on the hallway wall; ready to go.

It's a bit worn. We have used it for many years.

There is an empty tree and, below it, 24 boxes. In each box is a small wooden ornament.

You hang the ornament on the tree a day at a time; almost a month of small pleasures.

We do it together. A family thing. One does odd and the other does even days.

There is an empty box. One ornament was lost long ago.

One day, one of us will open the top of the little box and find 'nothing'. Always a bit of a letdown. Talk about the glass being half empty. Try an advent calendar box!

I will also be doing a sort of advent calendar on the blog using the famed

Weebl Advent Calendar.

You can hog it all now and try out the boxes or just wait and see each day's 'box' on the blog.

I know. A lot of people hate the Weebl stuff. Too fucking bad. You get them for the holidays anyway.

They are better than a lump of coal in your stocking.