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We had the most delicious tea in our Advent Calendar today- White Tea with Passion Flower (or Passion de Fleurs which just sounds better :-P). I'm not always big on very flowery teas but this was just what I needed to sooth my slightly fractured nerves (two visits to the dentist in one day might get it over quickly but doesn't lead to a relaxed Sarah!)
I'm definitely winning at Advent Calendars this year- yummy tea, a Traidcraft one with the Christmas story in it, a lovely one of a church with cartoonish figures inside it (it was a chorister today) and then I might also be enjoying the daily games on www.noradsanta.org ♥ AND the one I'm doing on our work facebook page is going down very well too (it's nice when an offhand idea really works!)
Plus our Advent readings have been wonderful poems so far (though we've taken to reading the longer explanations that go with them separately and just the poems and meditations as a family with the Advent wreath lit). Oh and speaking of readings...
#SeasonsReadings
8. It's a mystery! My first thought is that I don't really read many mysteries and then I realised I was talking rubbish and ANYWAY I have a perfectly obvious answer- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I absolutely love this book for its mystery but also for the world it describes and for all the more esoteric elements Umberto Eco includes. It's easily the most readable of his books too.
(Dad says I'm wrong and clearly the answer is Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time which is also a very good book)
I'm definitely winning at Advent Calendars this year- yummy tea, a Traidcraft one with the Christmas story in it, a lovely one of a church with cartoonish figures inside it (it was a chorister today) and then I might also be enjoying the daily games on www.noradsanta.org ♥ AND the one I'm doing on our work facebook page is going down very well too (it's nice when an offhand idea really works!)
Plus our Advent readings have been wonderful poems so far (though we've taken to reading the longer explanations that go with them separately and just the poems and meditations as a family with the Advent wreath lit). Oh and speaking of readings...
#SeasonsReadings
8. It's a mystery! My first thought is that I don't really read many mysteries and then I realised I was talking rubbish and ANYWAY I have a perfectly obvious answer- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I absolutely love this book for its mystery but also for the world it describes and for all the more esoteric elements Umberto Eco includes. It's easily the most readable of his books too.
(Dad says I'm wrong and clearly the answer is Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time which is also a very good book)