On Sunday I was presented with a small gift from Sunday School... one of those rectangular foil baking caes with a cardboard lid.  The lid had been lovingly decorated with stickers and an explanation of the 'Advent Chain' contained within.  Inside were 25 strips of coloured paper, one for a prayer each day, and to be made into a paper chain, and then on Christmas Day the final gold link used to complete the circle.  There is also a gift-wrapped surprise to dsicover on Christmas Day.

Annoyingly, this blog platform is refusing to upload the photo I took, despite editting and cropping it to a small size.  I will try again la