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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 12th door of our Meery Christmas Advent Calendar grants us the gift of song, in the shape of Christmas Carols. Christmas Carols are often sung in Churches, but small choirs will also perform in city centres, whilst historically people would also go door-to-door to sing for people. Famous Carols include Silent Night, Joy to […]
What do you find behind door 11 of your Meery Christmas Advent Calendar, you find… an advent calendar! Talk about meta… The advent calendar is a great means for kids to start the countdown to Christmas Day, and each morning usually provides a slightly different scene (perhaps also some chocolate, depending on the calendar!) to […]
The 10th door of our Meery Christmas Advent Calendar yields an adult indulgence during the festive season: Christmas booze! Now, I am easily pleased, so beer tends to be all I require, but in the rundown to the big day, various shops will start to sell Christmas-themed alcoholic beverages, some of which intrigue, whilst others […]
The Meery Christmas Calendar’s ninth day is going to make you hungry! The Christmas Dinner is one of Christmas Day’s great traditions, and a lot of planning goes into executing a wonderful occasion. Everyone’s idea of this is a little different, but there some elements that filter across virtually every Christmas-celebrating UK household, and I […]
The eighth day of the Meery Christmas Calendar reveals an activity that is unavoidable, but one which has also transformed in recent years: Christmas shopping! It was once the subject of many a joke that whilst women were comfortably prepared (having bought presents well in advance), men would often wait until 4.55pm on Christmas Eve […]
It’s day seven, it’s morning, and we’re rushing to open up door number seven on the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar! Will it be something we love? Uh oh. It is time to perform a duty that is completely required, but also rather despised, at least by me. It is time to wrap the gifts! I […]
Let’s sneak a peek behind door number six of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar. What awaits us? It’s Christmas Cards! Now, this meerkat is not especially given to writing out Christmas cards, though I do tend to. It is, like one or two other elements of Christmas, quite laborious to me, though I do understand […]
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Ever since I was a cub, I have generally speaking been fond of swimming. I don’t do it often, but when I do, I enjoy it. I consider myself a reasonably confident swimmer, and I have few qualms about going out into the sea when at the beach (well, when I’m somewhere warm, with clear […]
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