I think candy canes are more of an American thing but here they are in my for Do any Brits hang them from their trees?

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16th Day of Advent. The Mouse is making Smoking Bishop for the Old Fox. She roasts Seville oranges until black-burnt & simmers them with a whole bottle of Port & starry cloves & pawfuls of brown sugar. Served in silver cups from a Mitre-shaped punch bowl. How fine! says the Fox.

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Jo hi. Hier ein Weihnachtsdado ^^ Hoffe ihr hattet alle einen schönen dritten Advent.
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🕯️🕯️🕯️ Wir wünschen euch einen Frohen dritten
Ab 20Uhr startet unsere vorletzte Sendung für dieses Jahr. Für zwei Stunden wieder die volle Dröhnung Musik, Infos und eine kleine



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Na, erkennt ihr ihn? hat seine kurze gegen eine lange Hose getauscht, und Schuhe müssen nun natürlich auch sein. Wir wünschen einen schönen 3. Advent.

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15th Day of Advent. Dawn & a storm's been raging all night. Waves thrashing against Smeaton's Pier, but it's her birthday, so she walks to the end. Suddenly, in the troubled light, strange singing, high & holy, from down in the salt-green depths. Seals blessing one of their own.

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14th Day of Advent. Heavy snow & Hare missed her mother desperately, so she brought out her old button tin & laid the button-jewels in patterns across the kitchen table. Pearl, ceramic, gilt, glass & plastic, enamelled, shanked, roped & fisheye, in every colour, shape & size.

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13th Day of Advent. The Fox was called out to a cottage in the hamlet. One of the mother mice there was inconsolable. Frightened for her children. He tucked her into bed, made the little mice chocolate & told them all a story about courage, how it hardens & blazes under duress.

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This flu is driving me crackers now (see what I did there?). Here are a couple for today’s Have a great day illustrators 😊.

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11th Day of Advent. Edging the forest of Fontainebleau, Rosa Bonheur's tower bedroom is flooded with winter light. Gilt bird cages, easels, paints, typewriter, dark velvet bed, animals below, electric lights illuminating the darkness. O I have made the forest my temple, she says

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10th Day of Advent. Exhausted by falsehoods, the Fox & the Girl walk deep into the birch woods for twigs to gild. How can they lie so much, she asks. Because they've lost their souls, he says. Where? Sold 'em. For money, for vanity, for power, for hurt. Oh, she says. Oh.

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7th Day of Advent. A Snow Goose is flying over the Fens, under a sky fretted with winter stars. She traces the water lines & frost ways & hedge tracks, plotting by steeple & manor & field, until she reaches the cottage & the Girl, half-orphaned & in need of a wise friend.

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7th Day of Advent. She is shopping for Christmas presents on Finsbury Square, at Messrs. Lackington, Allen & Co.'s Temple of the Muses, finest bookshop in London. Helped by an anxious young man, she buys volumes by Maria Edgeworth, Catherine Selden, Hannah More & Madame de Genlis

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December 7th of Well this wouldn’t be much use today as there is still no sign of snow. I can’t remember the last time it snowed at Christmas. Maybe this year 🙏🏻.

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Day 5 of Who doesn’t love a mince pie? Me, for years. I mean all those years I missed out just because I didn’t like the look of them. Then I tasted one and I was gone. 😋

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Don't forget to mail your letters to Santa! Here's an illo from last year's illo advent. I'll see if I can squeeze some new ones this year.

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Fourth Day of Advent. An unloved girl put on her cloak & went to the river. She waded into the icy water, but was tugged back by a wolf, who told her to live. He found her strong medicine, rooms with a kind family, hearty food & the deep constancy of love from a dying old wolf.

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December 2nd and day 2 of Don’t forget to feed our feathered friends. It’s Christmas time for them too you know. (Top tip - sell the best bird feed around 😉).

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