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1st December 2024

Happy Advent! It's not often the 1st December is also the 1st Sunday in Advent, so we get to open our advent calendar AND light the first candle on the Advent Ring.


Alt-text for the young people: a picture of an old-looking man (who frighteningly is only 31) about to set fire to a complicated construction of flammable tinsel and coat hangers.

Welcome to year X of our Advent Calendar (it's probably 22 or so) and as usual we will be sharing the best of Christmas preparations and traditions as they come to us. Place your bets now on how long it will be until Adam is more than 24 hours late posting on the blog.

Since we have a Blue Peter picture today, here in detail (from the "Blue Peter Make Cook And Look Book" 1978) is how to make your own Advent Ring, and for the girls, some Tinsel Birds.








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Anonymous said…
I never got to make one of these - I was only 3 in 1978!
1 December 2024 at 17:56
Anonymous said…
I’m a proud owner of a Blue Peter badge and once made one of those Christmas crowns out of metal coat hangers and tinsel. My great uncle was their zookeeper and often appeared with exotic animals, including Lulu the elephant. I miss those days with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd, and Shep the dog. Wishing you all a very happy and meaningful Christmas!
7 December 2024 at 22:30
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