And marbled clouds go scudding by the many-steepled London sky.

[venta]

Morning, all. It's the first of December today, and so it's time to start opening Advent calendars.

Those who played the Great Advent Game should now be in possession of calendars. As of last night, I was aware that the postal service had let both cuthbertcross and killalla down - calendars are in transit, but not received - is everyone else OK ?
[Update: bateleur reports that an e-calendar has not yet manifested in their Inbox.]

A few days ago the post brought me an A4 envelope, copiously bedecked with "Do Not Bend" warnings. Looking at the postmark, I surmised that it was my calendar arriving from thurisaz_art and didn't open it. Ripping into envelopes this morning has revealed a 24-door calendar featuring a sexy elf:



Which is lovely, and today's door has a rather chirpy dove flying skywards. Many thanks to thurisaz_art, who has obviously brought genuine artistic talent to bear (something I strenuously refrained from doing).

As I commented when posting addresses round, I'm reluctant to link people's real-names with LJ tags when I don't have their express consent, so to the best of my knowledge most people won't really know the person they've received their calendar from. If people want to describe their received calendar and see if anyone's willing to admit sending it, feel free to do so here. Anyone willing to post descriptions/pictures of their calendars for all to see is very much encouraged to do so - I'm all curiosity.

In the end, two e-calendars and eight snail-calendars were constructed. Thanks to everyone who joined in.

Comments

[ebee.livejournal.com]

My calendar when I opened the black envelope at 2am- Couldn't sleep and needed cheering up-The contents was a wee card with a fable about lark...and bizzarely usefully, on the theme of sorting things out and depending on yourself. I think this might be a learning experience (possibly christian?) over the next 23 days!

I'm guessing mine must not have reached its far climes yet...

[venta.livejournal.com]

The dweller in the climes doesn't come online terribly regularly, I don't think, so might not check in for a couple of days.

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

If opening it at 2am was helpful and cheering, then it was all worth it.

Thank you!

[marjory.livejournal.com]

It has indeed and thank you very much for it! It arrived today which meant that I got to read 2 installments of the story and I don't know if I can be mature enough to wait for the rest!

The globe squeezy ball is coming in very handy too!

Re: Thank you!

[marjory.livejournal.com]

That was a thankx to Ebee btw. spooky that another comment went out at the same time!