by Anura Guruge
on December 21, 2023
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The train set is coming along nicely. Heavy too. Has HEFT.
The Christmas tree. This is fiddly. Needs MORE assembly!
Ornaments from the wooden & box calendars hung up on a LED tree.
Not sure WHERE the chocolate calendar is. I suspect it is ALL GONE.
Love the train set. Wow.
She has some work to do. But, she is busy with the lights, the trees & decorations.
I will keep you posted.
Merry Christmas!
by Anura Guruge
on December 1, 2023
Six, from what I remember, is probably the MOST we have done for ONE KID! Smile.
Well, I believe you can’t have ENOUGH, but 6 is all I could manage. Plus, SHE has to assemble the Lego ones and that takes time. Smile.
I will of course show you the progress as we go along.
The train one should be fun. I wanted IT, but was realistic. As she says, I can watch it take shape. What FUN.
Merry Christmas!
by Anura Guruge
on December 1, 2023
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Well, the title is very self-explanatory.
Quizzes — a total of 255 Christmas-related questions.
Yes, of course, this was a spin-off from the research I did for the 1st book. It was crazy not to utilize that.
Back cover from paperback.
Merry Christmas!
by Anura Guruge
on November 29, 2023
These two are the ones that I have to load (i.e., fill) with presents.
Got 3 Lego (& compatibles) to go with these two. But, I don’t have to mess with those. Ready to go, out of the box. I like that.
So, FIVE (5) parallel Advent calendars this year. Ooops! Sorry. SIX (6). I bought a cheap (i.e., $1.25) CHOCOLATE one too. That is a throw-away.
Yes, you will see more pictures.
Smile.
Merry Christmas!
by Anura Guruge
on October 29, 2023
Advent, of course, comes BEFORE Christmas. So, I have to make sure the Advent Calendars are well in hand by the 2nd week of November. This is a start.
I have TWO that I will have to get items to fill. So, need to get cracking on that too.
The Nutcracker figures were just TOO CUTE. I had to get one.
I have a few more kits on my radar.
Wow. Christmas is not that far away.
One that I have to get stuff to stuff.
by Anura Guruge
on December 16, 2022
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December 16th — 16 days into Advent. Only 8 days left!
As you can see much progress has been made on the 2 ‘Legos’ & a LOT of rocks & fidget toys have been uncovered.
She is enjoying it. Has liked all the rocks & fidget toys she has received so far. So I am happy. It was a fair amount of work pulling this off. But, I love it.
by Anura Guruge
on December 15, 2022
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I am guilty than most when it comes to gifting CHOCOLATE Advent Calendars. This year is the first, in well over two decades, when I did not buy ANY chocolate advent calendars. The chief recipient of my chocolate advent calendars, who would get a FEW (i.e., more than one), so that she would not be limited to just one chocolate per day, is now lactose-intolerant & as such didn’t want chocolates. Some of the other recipients also declined saying that they are watching what they eat. So, I didn’t get any this year. But, we still had 4 other Advent Calendars going in parallel.
Like with so many things to do with religious holidays, Christmas supposedly one, we have lost sight of many of the old beliefs, customs & tradition.
People were expected to fast — & even give up sex — during Advent!
Dairy & sugar products were particularly frowned upon. So, it is ironic that we now have chocolate advent calendars — the antithesis of fasting or restraint.
Funny how the cookie has crumbled so to speak.
If you are wondering the FIRST Chocolate Advent Calendar dates back to 1958.
by Anura Guruge
on December 1, 2022
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She got a shelving unit last year so that she can have them all out on display.
4 ACTIVE calendars for 2022 — ONE more than usual.
This year I added the 24 boxes. Needed more space for the ‘gifts’! The wooden calendar is v. nice but the drawers are very small. SMILE.
I was nervous about the ‘Lego Compatible’. But, she says the pieces are GOOD & there are more pieces per figure than with Lego. That is good since it was half the price of the Lego.
by Anura Guruge
on November 28, 2022
Alas, not from our yard or from within the house. I took these pictures, this afternoon, at our local ‘Hannafords‘ supermarket. I like to take pictures of flowers — as some of you may have worked out. We have already had a few hard frosts & there are no outdoor flowers around here — or for a few hundred miles from here. So, I will have to make do with indoor ones & ones on display. But, I will always try to be as COLORFUL as I can.
by Anura Guruge
on November 26, 2022
This, a wooden calendar I got a few years ago is the cornerstone. It gets pride of place. All the Lego Advent calendars get arrayed around it. This year I think we will have 15 Advent Calendars going in parallel! I keep on adding at least 2 per year. This year I have three. SMILE. She will have 2 Legos — or one Lego & one compatible — to build each day, & two with presents. Not sure what she will do with the others. She make do some of the others each day too. Depends if she has the time & energy. I know she is getting out the prior Lego Advents tomorrow.
In case you are interested I got this, i.e., a Lego compatible, too — this one from Amazon. For the price I could NOT resist.
