1st December 2021

Welcome one and all to the Advent Calendar of Novelty Nonsense and Whimsical Fun. Your hosts are Sarah and Adam and we've been doing this for nearly 2 decades, using early internet tools such as Pagespinner and Fetch, right through to Blogger.

Let's start with an AMAZING Christmas anagram:

It's from the greatest crossword setter ever, The Guardian's Araucaria:

"While shepherds watched their flocks by night, all seated on the ground" = "O hark! The herald angels sing the boy’s descent which lifted up the world"

And here's a great picture to get us started for 2021. We hope your Advent Calendar is as good as this!

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Advent Calendar 2025

1st December 2025

Hello! We've sort of lost count, but think the first Advent Calendar was back in 2003, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine says it looked like this: Of course all the links are dead, but the thing it has in common with this year's is that it is still coded in HTML, probably the last thing I will ever rely on coding for. Now it looks like this: Happy Advent! We have gone for the Bonne Maman JAM Calendar again this year, after leaving it too late last year and it selling out at both Fenwick and Selfridges! We get a fresh pot of jam every day to enjoy with our tartines and Ovomaltines. We also have the Domino's "Merry Crustmas" leaflet, and a MUJI calendar we'll show you later in the month. Do let us know what you are opening every day! You can leave a message below, or email us your ideas and suggestions for future days at robotmaths@outlook.com Have a great day!

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