Advent

First day of December, traditionally the beginning of Advent and somewhere along the line Advent Calendars; a nice idea which seems to have disintegrated into an excuse for chocolate - and who needs an excuse?

The Guardian web page have started a musical advent calendar that i will have a look at, i enjoyed Jostein Gaarder's "A Christmas Mystery" which was laid out like one and we used to have a German dolls-house version with drawers that was inspirational. Other than that i think the medium is underexploited, though it might just be that i didn't see as much as i should have.

Doors/what's behind/surprise/build up.

Today i heard that Marcs Square in Venice is seriously under water.