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DelDecember 25, 2013
This was an easy one as the local cake shop is doing advent cakes and #22 was in the window - I expect, if I'd been paying attention, I would have seen #21 in the window yesterday. Saw the brilliant…
DelDecember 22, 2013
Today is the shortest day and if I ruled the world, Christmas would not be allowed to start until today. However, as I don't, Christmas can start whenever it likes and I seem to recollect that I recorded its 2013…
DelDecember 21, 2013
I'm getting a bit bored with this Advent malarkey! But, I've started so I'll finish and there are only five more to go. Being side-tracked by far more interesting things today, I nearly forgot an advent shot and remembered just…
DelDecember 20, 2013
Some of the things we have seen and done today have been absolutely stunning, and finding unspoilt pockets of old Prague has been great fun. But, the city does seem to be turning itself into a 24/7 night club, which…
DelDecember 19, 2013
3G isn't happening and hotel wi-fi is intermittent at best. Will save my observations about th Czech Reublic and its identity crisis for another time. Suffice it to say, P seems to revolve around Russian dolls, Venetian glass, gambling, cheap…
DelDecember 18, 2013
Not many to choose from today because of a near catastrophe. I can't begin to count how many times I've removed the bottom plate of my camera to change either the card or the battery, and I thought it was…
DelDecember 17, 2013
And a rather dapper looking Frosty at that. So any illusions I had, that being in a foreign clime would lead to a better class of advent subject, have been firmly dismissed today. My favourite find was the underpants with…
DelDecember 16, 2013
Not a very inspiring shot, but then Heathrow airport is far from inspiring. We arrived rather early, so I trotted into W H Smith to buy a camera comic - a traditional treat at the start of a holiday. On…
DelDecember 15, 2013
Christmas card writing in our household does not take long. We have managed to get the list down to 5 this year - preferring something electronic in poor taste (which will be winging its way out this week), but as…
DelDecember 14, 2013
But not for me, for I have found Jesus! Actually, that's not quite true - Wilcey found Jesus for me. We were just looking in the charity shop window (I've become rather obsessed with charity shops since someone told me…
DelDecember 13, 2013
It's not often that words fail me, but this Christmas scene left me speechless. Meanwhile, far more tasteful are the photographs displayed at the Cafe Art 2014 Calendar exhibition in the Charing Cross Underground Shopping Centre. The exhibition is running…
DelDecember 11, 2013
In my quest for pix for the Advent Calendar, I am becoming something of an expert on the meaning of Christmas. Way out in the lead is Santa, the reindeer are in second place with indeterminate fluffy creatures taking third…
DelDecember 10, 2013
The flat is almost empty and ready for the decorators. Well done to the Abacus boys for moving all that stuff down six flights of stairs - big hugs and thanks! There are advantages to living on the top floor…
DelDecember 9, 2013
Tough choice today as I took loads of sparkly shots, such as these amazing shoes by Christian Louboutin, but it can't really be my daily pic on two counts: 1) I do question whether something is Adventesque simply because it…
DelDecember 8, 2013
… mean big presents:-) Didn't have much time for photography or present shopping today. We're having the flat decorated over the next few weeks, but we have to empty it first. The removal men are coming on Monday to put…
DelDecember 7, 2013
'Biatchitude - displaying behaviour and attitude typical of a biatch' - this is definitely my word of the year ... or is it? I've just discovered biatchitudestein, which is 'the constant state of having a full blown biatchitude'; hmmmm, tough…
DelDecember 6, 2013
… in the morning, shepherd's warning. And the shepherds were not wrong. As I write this, the rain is battering on the windows, the wind is howling around and it is the original dark and stormy night so loved by…
DelDecember 5, 2013