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

[keris.livejournal.com]

I don't have one in my hands yet, but I believe it was the thing they didn't deliver on Tuesday, which is hopefully on its way to work right now... :) :) :)

[triskellian]

(bateleur should have received his calendar by email at about 8.00 this morning.)

Mine, from him, is a rather lovely snowy house-thingie with windows, and today's window reveals a reindeer which looked suspiciously moose-like ;-)

A question: should the two of us with e-calendars share the URLs? I'm happy to share mine, and to have the one I made shared, if bateleur's up for it too. Of course, this may be me projecting my nosiness onto other people - I want to see everyone else's, so I assume everyone else wants to see the others too ;-)

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

Not exactly an advent calendar but almost, and inspired by you, is my countdown of my fave CDs and Books of 2005 day by day from today on my LJ at pigeonhed.

Ian and Viv's Advent Box

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

A few days ago, a box arrived. Judging by the sender sticker, it appears to have come from venta herself. It contains 24 envelopes of varying sizes, a collection of sweet-smelling substances and a vast number of small gold stars, which are getting everywhere.
The first envelope contained a very attractive recipe for buttered rum.
On looking inside the box for the first time, my immediate thought was

"My God! It's full of stars!"

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I'm happy for URLs to be shared.

(And yes, as you know by now I have received yours.)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

My window this morning was...

...well, you can go and see for yourself:

http://www.triskellian.com/advent/

Hurrah !

Re: Ian and Viv's Advent Box

[ebee.livejournal.com]

Ohhh..you must have been who sent mine..Hello!

[triskellian]

In that case, mine is at: http://heffalumps.org/advent2005/

[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...

Re: Ian and Viv's Advent Box

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

Pleased to meet you. And thank you for the kind words you put in your LJ the other day. A few surprises for you along the way, I shouldn't wonder. I hope you got it untangled OK.

Re: Ian and Viv's Advent Box

[venta.livejournal.com]

which are getting everywhere

Sorry about that!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice idea. I'll check that out :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I want to see everyone's calendar. I was very tempted to hand out my own address to everyone, and go into hiding with my horde of calenders.

[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.

[(Anonymous)]

For you, Betjeman was inevitable. I suppose.

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

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

[keris.livejournal.com]

*bounces*
Yay! I get a different gastronomique delight to try every day!! *bounces more*

[killalla]

Oh, just to say my calendar arrived today, safe and sound! It's a shiny blue, gold and silver assortment of tiny wrapped packages, attached to a large hanging card. Today was a balloon with the note "for a party!" I am pleased and delighted - it's lovely, and really wonderful.

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

Hooray - you got it! I did have a sudden burst of delivery anxiety when I'd finished it and realised just how big it was! Hope you like it!

ps it was from me!

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

Oh, and mine from killala turned up fine on the 1st. see my lj for info!

[keris.livejournal.com]

*bounces*
Yes, it's great!! :)
It was huge though! I'm glad I took my car to pick it up...
:) :) :)

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!