15th December 2025

That was a busy weekend! Hope you had a good time, we had 3 Carol Services, as well as a trip to Portsmouth, dropping off Christmas cards round the neighbourhood, and preparing for the last week of term (yay)!

During all of our Christmas food shopping we keep noticing things that are a little bit strange. Like this:

We have coped with Advent Calendars for cats in the past, and even Soup for cats, but I don't think dogs know what mince pies are, never mind recognise the pastry bone on top.

It's like these treats. I can believe a cat could take down a small garden bird. But a turkey? Or a lamb? I wouldn't want to see that battle. And how is a cat ever going to catch prawns?

Anyway, send us the weirdest "my pet is really my baby and needs to have the full Christmas experience" pet foods you have found. We'll leave you with 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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