When the kids were little, I used to read to them at night and in December I used to try and find a different Christmas story, or a chapter about Christmas from a bigger book to read each night. It was a challenge trying to find something different to read every night so we did…
I love a bit of Christmas cake. Mum makes me one every year (thanks mum!) and because the kids don’t eat it, I get to share it with just D. All of it! Unless we have visitors, then I share with them too. This year my cake arrived at the beginning of December and I…
Our Christmas tree this year is tiny but effective and my thanks to Bookworm for going to the effort in the middle of all of our unpacking chaos. The new house is possibly not big enough for our old Christmas tree and anyway, it’s still buried in the garage with everything else that ends up…
We’re sometime Top Gear fans in our house too – so the combination of Izzard and the show was too good to pass up.
Someone shared this on Facebook this week and I love it – so I wanted to put it somewhere I might be able to find it again someday.
More Star Wars – and what can be better than combining Star Wars with Lego. And a Christmas theme? I’m in awe of these little Lego movies, there’s some clever people out there.
I like Christmas lights. I mostly like going and looking at other people’s Christmas lights and we’ve had many lovely family evenings over the years driving around looking – even better is to park the car and walk around if there’s a few houses together. It’s nice community time, other folk out for an evening…
We are Star Wars fans in our household – the Eddy Izzard Star Wars Canteen skit is one of our favourite all time comedy pieces. I liked this though:
Minecraft is huge. If you aren’t sure what it is, check out this or this or just google it. If the young people in your household are already Minecraft fans, you might like to consider this:
A few years ago when I did this virtual Advent Calendar for the first time, we discovered Eddie Izzard and in particular, the Star Wars Canteen sketch. It remains one of our favourite comedy sketches and most of us in the family can quote whole bits of it at any given moment. I do like…
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