Advent and the Spirit of Christmas

The boys are away this weekend so it won't be until this evening that they get to open their advent calendars. I got them down from the loft, dusted them off and started filling them with chocolates, and annual event which for me marks the start of a period I enjoy hugely for the way it brings friends and families together, focuses on the best in human nature, and I'm rather partial to a fairy light or two as well….