I’ve always loved Advent Calendars and buying them for the children in the middle of November was the trigger to the preparations for the festive season just around the corner.
As the years went on, the calendars got increasingly more expensive when they acquired a taste for chocolate better than Kinnerton or Cadburys, but the excitement of that pre-breakfast discovery still remained.
I was setting up the tree this evening – yes, I know it’s early but I just wanted the comfort – and yet it serves only to remind me that they are no longer with me.
Half-forgotten ornaments at the bottom of the box. Little sparkly trinkets which they made at school with their names etched onto the dull side of the fired clay.
Decades old but accompanied by a painful shard of memory and an echoing snatch of laughter from happier times.
For a moment I try to grasp the unravelled strands and weave them back together.
But those days are gone.
The lovely people at Lovehoney are treating us all to a luxury sex toy advent calendar with 24 chances to win.
From now until Xmas, one lucky winner will bag the fabulous sex toy that is behind the window on that day.
Prizes from Lelo, Fun Factory, Je Joue and We-Vibe and many more.
And every time you share the Lovehoney Advent Calendar on Facebook or tweet about it, you will be put into the special Christmas Day draw with the chance to win a £100 shopping spree at Lovehoney. You can enter multiple times each day if you want to.
Do you feel lucky…?
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