Advent people

'We are an Easter people, and our song is Hallelujah.'

At the minute, of course, strictly speaking, we are an Advent people, and our song is 'Why are we waiting, we are suffocating...'

Okay, maybe not.

But Advent is a time of preparation, of readying ourselves for Christmas and the coming of the Christ Child.

In our house, it seems mostly to coincide with The Coming Of The Blackbird Through the Hole In The Roof And Then To Our Bedroom Via The Hole In The Plaster. Not catchy, admittedly, but nobody should be confronted with a crazy bird at ten o'clock on a Sunday morning.

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Insert your own joke here.

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Anyways. It's cold. You may have noticed. It's pretty cold in the West Midlands, even though we seem to be escaping the worst of it, but yeesh. Do the heaters turn up any higher?

Hmm...actually, it seems they do. Excuse me a second.

So it's NCIS marathons (season 3, since you ask) and the duvet on the spare bed has been conscripted to provide extra warmth. Seeing as our proper duvet is two duvets joined by poppers, technically we're using three.

Whatever though, it's warm.

Advent is a time of preparation, which can seem kind of tricky when it's just endless winter and cold and snow and ice and your hands feel like they'll drop off with cold and... but it's worth it, in the end. Christmas, and remembering the original, is worth it.

We'll just have to bundle up till March.