At the beginning of December, Benjamin Hewins, who lives outside of London with his family, spent two days freezing his butt off while he constructed a 7.5-foot-tall advent calendar with presents behind every window for his wife Zyleen.
Walking through the door is like opening the window on an advent calendar: the walls are painted a vivid raspberry, and wintry draughts are kept at bay by thick red curtains across stone doorways.
The Regent's Park revival by Philip Franks, colourful and zesty in the designs of Gideon Davey, keeps those doors flapping like windows on an Advent calendar.
Like most people, the holidays make me feel connected to the past; a time of reflection when moments of insight open up like glowing windows on an advent calendar.
"This announcement is like opening the first window of a Bond advent calendar.
I remember when I was a child, I would wake up each morning in the last month of the year and gleefully tear open the window on my chocolate advent calendar, because nothing quite says "Christmas" like a mouthful of disgusting, gritty chocolate at 7AM.
Adam Gopnik remembered that going to work at the magazine was like "opening the windows on the most extraordinary Advent calendar that had ever been invented".
He's so callous that after driving a clueless little boy (Brett Kelly) home, he steals passports and money, then just moves in (the grandmother is drugged and oblivious) and -- oh, no! -- opens all the windows on the boy's Advent calendar and eats the chocolates.
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This advent calendar means you can chop and change throughout December, with each window revealing a tealight or votive candle in one of Yankee's eight festive scents.
