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Mudcat Advent Calendar
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Subject: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 01 Dec 00 - 07:14 AM No naked folkies here! You've just opened the first door on the Advent Calendar and... Look! There's a snowman playing the banjo! Cute. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Dec 00 - 07:20 AM Better if he used it for a shovel. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Bagpuss Date: 01 Dec 00 - 07:21 AM But is it a chocolate snowman playing the banjo - thats what really matters Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Naemanson Date: 01 Dec 00 - 08:11 AM No! It's a regular snowman playing the banjo in the CHOCOLATE Church! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: MMario Date: 01 Dec 00 - 08:31 AM confuse the issue: it's a white chocolate snowman playing the banjo |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: A Wandering Minstrel Date: 01 Dec 00 - 08:49 AM *chewing thoughtfully* mmm! delicious |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 01 Dec 00 - 09:20 AM *LOL* Spaw! I was hoping to start with a banjo and work up to the Grand 24th-of-December Finale: A Heavenly Host on accordians and bodhrans in a moving Christmas rendition of Barbara Allen. Touching, poetic and full of joy... Aaah, commercialism. I remember the days when advent calendars were simply a joy to open... now it's chocolate they all want! Nostalgia: forget about it, eh? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Liz the Squeak Date: 01 Dec 00 - 09:23 AM I have to find the candle I bought last year, and then found the candle I'd bought the previous year.... ho ho hum,.... Madam Bratling will be getting her advent calender later, I have to fish it down out of the loft.... grrrr LTS |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Naemanson Date: 01 Dec 00 - 10:48 AM I get very nostalgic over chocolate. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Long Firm Freddie (at work) Date: 01 Dec 00 - 10:56 AM Nostalgia... it's not what it used to be... LFF |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: sophocleese Date: 01 Dec 00 - 11:04 AM A snowman playing a banjo, great idea! What will tomorrow bring? Wait and see dear, wait and see. Advent Calendar! Thanks for reminding me. Ours is a felt tree with different gifts and decorations coming out each day. I loved the one I grew up with that had delicate inch high figures that populated the stable. I keep looking for a similar one but everything I see is too coarse. I'm going to have to make it myself this year. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: MMario Date: 01 Dec 00 - 11:06 AM we used, and re-used, and re-used Advent Calendars...though got a new one for the family each year as well. 'course with 9 kids, there still were never enough in usuable shape so that everyone got to open a door each day. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Morticia Date: 01 Dec 00 - 12:23 PM ooooooh, you just reminded me, my daughter bought me a chocolate filled advent calendar...( well, to be honest I'm known to throw tantrums if someone doesn't).....back in a minute *BG* |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Bill D Date: 01 Dec 00 - 12:30 PM *sigh*...how I long for the days before all this nostalgia.... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Naemanson Date: 01 Dec 00 - 12:40 PM I once found a lovely advent calendar that was a long green fabric garland with small numbered stockings sewed along its length. I guess I need to add this site to my trace list so I can keep an eye on the offerings. Thanks for the Advent Calendar, FM. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 01 Dec 00 - 12:47 PM My sister sends the kids a new one each year. Even tho' one is a teenager and the other is a teen-in-training, they love it. We also have a lovely 15-yr old one from the Metropolitan Museum in NY with little wooden ornaments. That one's coming out of the attic tonight! None has ever had a snowman playing the banjo, however! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Mrrzy Date: 01 Dec 00 - 12:49 PM OK, ignoramus alert - what is an advent calendar and is it religious by definition? I seem to recall Advent being a Christian something or other... sorry! All I know is that I really like chocolate... have been thinking of editing the COROLLA on the back of my new car to read cHo.Col.aTE... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 01 Dec 00 - 12:49 PM Snowman playing a banjo? Does this ring a bell to anyone? I've got two words for you. Burl Ives. Rudolf. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: MMario Date: 01 Dec 00 - 01:04 PM Mrzzy - well - yes and no It is a calender to mark the days from the beginning of Advent until Christmas. since Advent is a religious season of the Christian Church - guess that would make it inherently religious. *grin* Usually takes the form of a scene with little numbered windows that you can open in order by day. Behind each one is a picture. Some have proverbs. Some have little presents, or chocolates!!!!! Some form a second scene when all the doors are open; if so, it is frequently a Nativity Scene |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 01 Dec 00 - 01:08 PM Mrrzy - yes, the four Sundays before Christmas are known as Advent in the Christian Calendar. The Advent Calendar is a much more recent phenomenon (19th Century, I think?). It's a picture with lots of little doors on it, and you open one every day to reveal a Christmas scene, up until the 24th December. The biggest door on the 24th December usually has some bunch of people in a stable behind it (I'm teasing... I'm teasing). Anyway, some people are only in it for the chocolate ;-) as most of the calendars nowadays have sweets behind every door. I don't know where that bit of the tradition came from. Anyway, when you're young there's great anticipation about the picture behind the door, and siblings usually fight to get to open door number 24, to such an extent that there's still a note on the inside of the cupboard door at my parents' house saying "so-and-so opened door number 24 in 1983". It's a nice custom, because when you reach door 24 you've counted down to Christmas! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 01 Dec 00 - 01:11 PM hmmm, I type too slow...!
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: MMario Date: 01 Dec 00 - 01:43 PM Thighbone Shovel! You got some kinda meat-person prejudice against people of dihydrogen-oxide descent? Besides, as Matt_R points out correctly - banjo playing snowmen are a matter of public record in at least one television special. We KNOW that the TV (especially the news) would never tell us anything that wasn't true, right? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: MMario Date: 01 Dec 00 - 03:35 PM an advent calender for those who don't know what they are like click
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Tig Date: 01 Dec 00 - 05:47 PM Firecat reminded me a couple of nights ago she would like her 'Advent Teddies', a string of teddybears on stockings which hold a small gift which we had bought her about 10 years ago. I tried telling her she was too old but was shot down in flames. Guess who was to be found in the shops over the last couple of days looking for tiny things to go in them.... It's nice to retain a little innocence when you get to sixteen and threequarters! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: GUEST,Sarah Date: 01 Dec 00 - 06:13 PM Mmario, what a nifty virtual Advent Calendar! Ooh,ooh: I wish it were Sunday! I wish it were Sunday! Sarah |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Tinker Date: 01 Dec 00 - 06:14 PM Thanks for the reminder. With four sets of hands to open windows, I started wrapping ornaments to be opened and set out each day. We gradually decorate our way up to Christmas and everyone has one to open each day. Now If I can just find the felt board with numbers and pockets to hold the trinkets... And set up before bed time... Now if I can just find a snowman with a banjo... Tinker |
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Subject: 2nd December From: Fibula Mattock Date: 02 Dec 00 - 02:17 PM Day Two reveals a picture of some beautifully wrapped presents, merely because I attempted Christmas shopping for the first time today and it was torturous. I think I could have tolerated the crowded shops, but the panpipe band in the centre of town playing "La Bamba" pushed me over the edge. Mmario - I've never seen a banjo-playing snowman - I thought I was being so original. I feel so deprived! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Diva Date: 02 Dec 00 - 03:22 PM Banjo playing snowmen,pah,here in the Scottish Borders,where men are men and sheep are scared, WE have Snowmen playing pipes(bagpipes). Town Christmas parade on Thursday 7 Dec,it has to be seen....... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Naemanson Date: 02 Dec 00 - 03:29 PM FM, are you sure you don't mean you feel so depraved? This from someone who hasn't attempted shopping yet but has started to create the list. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Fibula Mattock Date: 03 Dec 00 - 07:49 AM Depraved! Yes! Never was very good at speling. 3rd December has a bunch of holly behind the door, with lovely shiny red berries. Don't worry - the mistletoe will be along soon. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Naemanson Date: 03 Dec 00 - 10:38 AM Missletoe is useles without someone to share it with. Here's hoping someone comes along at the right moment! Guess I'll run over to the Christmas pudding thread and give it a stir! |
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Subject: 4th December From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 04 Dec 00 - 11:26 AM After a quick search the fourth door is found, and when opened reveals a little trumpet with a tartan ribbon around it. Because I've had that bleedin' "Stop the Cavalry" song in my head all day and am going mad from it. ("Think I've had enough... of Christmas... Think I want to be drunk right now, at the bar of the pub I love.. de de dah dah dah, de de dah dah dah...ad nauseum.) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Matt_R Date: 04 Dec 00 - 11:30 AM Maybe there should be a birthday cake behind the door. Today is Jeri's birthday, my birthday, and Sorcha's daughter Kate's birthday. Wooo woo happy b-day! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 04 Dec 00 - 11:33 AM OOooooo! Many Happy Returns!! A trumpet and a birthday cake with enough candles for everyone then! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Naemanson Date: 04 Dec 00 - 11:53 AM Happy Birthday to today's birthday babies, Matt, Jeri, and Kate. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Noreen Date: 04 Dec 00 - 12:36 PM Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, Kate, Matt and Jeri, Happy birthday to you. Love & Hugs from Noreen |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: MMario Date: 04 Dec 00 - 12:40 PM triple-layer cake, of course. yppaH yadhtriB ot ouy llA! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: sophocleese Date: 04 Dec 00 - 04:20 PM Happy, happy, happy birthday to you all. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: CamiSu Date: 04 Dec 00 - 06:21 PM Happy Birthday guys, and Naemanson, here is a kiss for you! We have a calendar with boxes to put stuff in, and it's in the kneewall space... We would try to have a small birthday gift for Jessica (Wavestar) on the 24th since she decided to be born a week closer to Christmas than her Mum--despite my best intentions! Oh well. CamiSu |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Naemanson Date: 04 Dec 00 - 07:03 PM Oh! A kiss! {blush} |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Cobble Date: 04 Dec 00 - 07:19 PM HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MATT R, JERI and KATE from another who has a birthday today !!!! Mrs. C. |
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Subject: 5th December From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 05 Dec 00 - 11:59 AM December 5th - Today reveals some sweet carol singers, all wrapped up in scarves with a lantern on a stick... and isn't one of them holding... AN ACCORDIAN!? Oh melodius joy! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Naemanson Date: 06 Dec 00 - 09:18 AM Is an accordian playing softly and slowly considered a box of sweets? Or is that considered an impossibility?
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 06 Dec 00 - 10:05 AM *LOL* Definite impossibility! The carol singers are singing twice as loud to drown out the sound. As for today's little 6th-of_December scene.... a twinkling snowflake. Because snow would be nice. A lot nicer than the incessant rain. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: sophocleese Date: 06 Dec 00 - 10:37 AM Well we're getting the snow Fib. Snow and wind yesterday with cars sliding all over the roads and pedestrians with their chins tucked into their coats fighting the gusts. Today its just falling softly and thickly down. I've set my living room chair up by the window so I can do some mending and watch the snow falling. My daughter's home sick this morning and she's being kept cheerful by playing quietly beside me as we listen to Spike Jones Christmas music, no accordians in it though. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: P05139 Date: 06 Dec 00 - 10:40 AM Having just read Mum's posting, I would like to remind her that I am NOT 16 and three quarters, but I AM 16 years, 11 months and 1 day old. It's my birthday in 3 weeks 6 days and counting!!!! Firecat. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: P05139 Date: 06 Dec 00 - 10:45 AM Try again! Mum, I'm only 3 weeks 6 days from being 17 and I'd like driving lessons please! :-))))) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Naemanson Date: 06 Dec 00 - 11:31 AM Well, Firecat, MY daughter is 16 years, 9 months, 14 days old and she has had her driving lessons. And let me tell you, there is nothing as unnerving as sitting passively in the passenger seat while your daughter guides the car uncertainly around the streets and parking lots.
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: Burke Date: 06 Dec 00 - 11:46 AM Snowing lightly in central New York as well. I don't know what it's like closer to the lake, we've just had a couple of inches. I can see it out the window when I look up over the top of my computer. There's a parking lot out there, but all I can see is the tops of the spruce trees all the way around the parking lot. They are beautiful, just like all the ones you see on Christmas cards. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Advent Calendar From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 06 Dec 00 - 12:35 PM Hey, today is the feast day of St. Nicholas. BTW wanna know something REALLY scary, FC? I didn't get my learner's permit & driving lessons from my Dad till I was 19. And I didn't get my permanent license until a year & a half later. I've only been driving by myself since last year...but already I am a hardened veteran, and IMPERVIOUS to road rage. I'm a laid-back driver....wait, what does this have to do with Advent! Aaaaaaaahhhh must be all that rubber cement I've been inhaling for the last 2 hours. HO HO HO!! --M |
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