Writing Prompts: Christmas Scents

A pleasant aroma drifts from the Meery Christmas Calendar. You open door number 22, and behind it, is a scented candle. Today is all about how Christmas smells. There is a certain wonderful scent in the air with Christmas. I cannot put my finger on it. There’s a… warmth to it. Think of the mulled […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Trees

On the 21st day of December, our Meery Christmas Advent Calendar speaks to us of the beautiful Christmas Tree! The Christmas Tree is arguably the centrepiece of the decorations. It takes pride of place within the living room, and gets adorned with some amazing baubles and other festive trinkets. In my home, we have a […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Clothes

I peel back the door of the 20th day, and the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar reveals to me… Christmas clothing! It is virtually a tradition of many a UK workplace to have a ‘Christmas Jumper Day’, irrespective of the line of work. Be it office work, be it retail, virtually everywhere has such a thing. […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Crackers

The 19th door of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar gives us a fun little element of a Christmas celebration: the humble Christmas cracker! Christmas crackers provide a little theatre to proceedings. They are interactive, because they require two people to pull on either end, and they grant the victor little prizes, which are admittedly pretty […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas at School

Behind the 18th door of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar is something that can chill me to the bone, even more than 20 years after the fact: school memories! To be fair, these are not actually that bad, and to be equally fair, my memory of Christmas at school is quite hazy. Much of what […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Dinner (Polish Edition)

Underneath the 17th door of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar lies a fish, and this symbolises one of the traditional Christmas dishes of Poland. You may be wondering why I’m writing about Polish Christmas food. Well, some of my neighbours are Polish, and they have spoken of Polish Christmas foods, so I thought I would […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Snowmen

A chilly breeze blasts out of the 16th door of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar! It’s time to talk about snowmen! Snowmen, whilst not automatically a Christmas thing, have certainly become synonymous with the season. Snowmen, often decorated with Christmas-themed items, appear on Christmas cards and in Christmas stories. One such story, simply called The […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Down Under

For the 15th entry of our Meery Christmas Advent Calendar, let’s flip everything upside-down, and journey to Australia! Australian Christmases aren’t something I have directly experienced, though my brother has. Australia has the strange situation of having inherited a lot of traditional British Christmas notions, half of which are horribly inappropriate for the climate. After […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Movies

Ahem! Day 14 of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar brings Christmas Movies, and with the movies comes the eternal question of whether the 80s classic Die Hard is a Christmas Movie. My wife would say, unequivocally, yes. I would have to agree. After all, the film is about a man trying to get home for […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Stockings

What do we see when we reveal what’s behind door 13 of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar? Stockings! The Christmas Stocking is usually an over-sized red sock, dangled over a fireplace so that Santa can fill it (give me strength), and be on his merry way. Growing up, we didn’t have a fireplace, so my […]

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