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Well, I almost didn’t get this ready in time but a bit of last minute tinkering has managed to bring you the (drum roll please)…
Today is the first day of advent and if you were like me as a kid, then the month of December was made even more exciting by having the chance to open a little door on a piece of cardboard to reveal a picture of a star or some holly. Sounds lame, but it was one of the things I remember enjoying a lot as a child, so I bring you a new fangled modern approach, with a twist.
This advent calendar is different because you won’t find a candle or some mistletoe behind it’s doors, and you don’t even have to fiddle around opening the doors either. Each day a new image will be revealed of something Eighties related, which if you click on it will take you to the relevant page of this very site discussing whatever that picture might be.
Go on, give it a try, and relive your memories of opening your Advent calendar as a child.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 6:48 am
I still have some of my old Advent calendars. When the ones with chocolates came in, we had one of those too. One year one of my cousins was peckish and decided to snack on the chocs in my brother’s Advent calendar. He thought he would be well away before the theft was discovered but unlikely for him, my aunt and uncle decided to stay on an extra day. Cue a huge row!
December 2nd, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Cute! Relly cute!
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:05 am
Nice story Miss Moppet. Serves your cousin right!
Glad you like the advent calendar too Jane!
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Day 1: Aye Up It’s Little Old Lady ! Superb
December 4th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Any idea why the comments aren’t showing up under the actual advent calleneder ?
December 4th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Yeah, the advent calendar page is created in a slightly different way to normal posts, something I’m still learning about in fact.
I’ll see what I can do about getting comments up on there, as it would be nice to let people comment directly on the calendar page itself.
December 4th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
I’ve also got an issue with one of my browsers (firefox) on one of my machines (Liz’s laptop) not displaying the numbers and images in the right place.
Fine on other machine using FF, fine on this machine using IE