Advent is here!

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When I was a child I never had an Advent calendar. I think that was something to do with belonging to the local Methodist chapel. Or maybe people just couldn’t afford to buy Advent calendars, I don’t remember any other children ever mentioning such a thing. When Big One was little Advent became more of a ‘thing’, possibly because our local school is a Church of England school. To start with she had a card Advent calendar with little doors that opened to reveal pictures from the Bible story. But somewhere along the way chocolate calendars got introduced - nothing at all to do with the Christmas story any more, but just 24 little over-packaged chocolates with a few pictures of Father Christmas and reindeer and such. So after a few years of this we got fed-up with the amount of packaging we were buying and throwing away. OK so these days much of our waste is allegedly recycled and our non-recyclable waste gets incinerated to produce energy, but it still irked us. So I decided to get the girls ‘everlasting’ Advent calendars. These fabric ones have pockets for you to pop in whatever you want, and they will be re-used every year. You can buy them ready-made, but I bought them the ‘make-your-own’ version, which basically comes on one printed panel like a large tea-towel so you cut out the pockets and sew them on yourself. This is the one Little One has made. I hope it will last for many years. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2021.