Christmas is Coming...

[Lucky Star]

Good idea! Wonder if any visitors will notice that you're 61 years behind the rest of us!

[Tony Summerfield]

I have the 1947 calendar hanging in my kitchen! Great!

So long as you don't refer back to January and February - you will find they are all wrong as this year was a leap year and needless to say 1947 wasn't!

[Anita Bensoussane]

So long as you don't refer back to January and February - you will find they are all wrong as this year was a leap year and needless to say 1947 wasn't!

I was thinking that too! I think the 1942 calendar will be fine for next year though.

Anita

[Moonraker]

I have the 1947 calendar hanging in my kitchen! Great!

So long as you don't refer back to January and February - you will find they are all wrong as this year was a leap year and needless to say 1947 wasn't!

I never look back.

[pete9012S]

..and it's the time for calendars..

I enjoyed looking through the one mentioned by Anita here many moons ago..
https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/boo ... endar+1950" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

All the calendars Tony has in the cave are smashing too:
https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/sea ... h=calendar" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And, it's the time for decorations too:

Vintage Hallmark Keepsake Ornament Kringles Toy Shop 1987 Light And Motion

Vintage Hallmark Keepsake Forest Frolics 1989 First In Series Light & Motion

Vintage Hallmark Keepsake Ornament

Magic Light and Motion

1987 Kringle’s Toy Shop

Elves Saw and Hammer Christmas Gifts While Children Watch

Works by Plugging Into Christmas Light Strand

Isn't this just wonderful!
Does anyone have one or anything similar on their tree?

[Anita Bensoussane]

That "Light and Motion" decoration is brilliant, Pete!

[Boodi 2]

Absolutely amazing! I have never seen a decoration like that before...perhaps because our Christmas decorations are so old. We continue to use those originally belonging to my parents and parents-in-law, some of which date from the early 1950s and which I can remember as a child in the 1960s.

[Judith Crabb]

Does anyone share my fondness for Advent Calendars? Every year I get out Enid Blyton's illustrated by Fritz Wegner. The pictures are magical.
I'm off to The Cave of Books to see the Sunny Stories calendars.

[John Pickup]

The calendars in the Cave are really worth checking out.
I love the circus themed one for 1949.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Does anyone share my fondness for Advent Calendars? Every year I get out Enid Blyton's illustrated by Fritz Wegner. The pictures are magical.

I was lucky enough to be given a copy of the Advent Calendar earlier this year, by a lady who'd had it since she was a child. I'm currently reading the story about John and Elizabeth as I open the related windows day by day. The artwork is beautiful, though the pictures behind the windows are a little small so I have to peer at them closely to appreciate the detail.

[number 6]

Going slightly off topic...Here's a cheerful video courtesy of Swanage Railway. Hopefully, this should brighten up everyone's Xmas! Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/-vLSaHoWa1s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Here's another one showing Corfe Castle station in magical Xmas splendour! Cool

https://youtu.be/XG_XHNyzZ6Q" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[pete9012S]

Off topic on the EBS Forums - surely not!!!

Thanks number6 - enjoyed those.

[Judith Crabb]

My motto, Anita, is 'a magnifying glass in every room'.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Good advice, Judith! I particularly liked yesterday's picture of the family of rabbits eating their supper in an underground cave/burrow.