22nd December 2024

Last Sunday in Advent, last candle on the Advent Ring, and churches will have their nativity scenes set up, ready to be filled by children dressed as shepherds, princesses, and Groot, bringing up antique china figurines of the wise men.

At home, you might have a small nativity, possibly Lego or Playmobil, or maybe like this woman, made by your child 40 years earlier and still produced every Christmas:

Alternatively you might live in a completely different sort of house where you collect things that are green and scaly, and put together this sort of nativity:

Or you might be the minimalist type:

Or you just love knitting:

Or you have an exceedingly well-balanced mobile nativity:

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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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