Before I tackle the thorny issue of BS 3×02, I have decided to spread a bit of cheer. Well, hopefully. Long story short – like last year, I have put together an online advent calendar of pretty pictures of our pretty boy… The advent calendar runs from 1 December to 24 December, and every day you can open the respective little window.
Since WordPress still doesn’t cooperate with the handy little widget supplied by the advent calendar maker, I am only offering you a screen shot of the calendRA above. But the site is up and running, and you can access it by clicking HERE.
There’s nothing open there, yet – the first window will be clickable on Saturday. But you can already bookmark the page so you can easily find it again on Saturday. I hope you’ll have as much fun with it day-by-day than I had when I put the whole thing together. It’s to provide a smile for you, every day in the run-up to Christmas 2018. And if you really just can’t wait, well you can amuse yourself with last year’s RAdvent CalendRA images included in this old post.
Talking of amusing yourself: I would also like to take the opportunity and direct you all to a new blog on the kid. Ehm, ok, a new kid on the block. Kate, whom many of you may know from commenting here and elsewhere, has finally been persuaded to start a blog of her own. Entitled “My dearest Louise“, the blog is a welcome addition to our dwindling Armitageworld! Please check out her hilarious introductory post HERE and leave her a message of welcome!
Othewise: stay tuned – only 48 hours, and you can open window #1.
Guylty Pleasure 
💋💋💋 Thank you for the calendar. You are such a mensch!
And my deepest gratitude to you for the shoutout and link love. I owe so much of it to you. *hugs*
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LOL – is that a thing, “mensch” as a complimentary expression? *hahaha*
And hey, stop it – you don’t owe anything to me. I am so glad to see new voices in the fandom. It’s the least I can do to actually channel some attention your way. (You do know, of course, that we all expect frequent posts on the same high level of entertainment from now on *puts the pressure on and cackles evilly*)
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Yes, it’s an expression I know from American English. It has Yiddish roots. Defined by Merriam Webster as follows: a person of integrity and honor
I use it simply as one of the good ones, a person who is good to others.
And hey, learn to take a compliment, or else… 😉 You’re an inspiration to me and many in the fandom. Deal with it! 😘
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oooh, that’s a nice word. I was totally sidetracked by the German meaning of it… which isn’t in any way specific.
Anyway, thank you, I’ll deal 😉
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Mensch is a great word, very underused, total term of endearment!!!
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Oooh, an RA advent, what fun! Swoon, he is pretty, isn’t he? And this is so much better for me than the chocolate-a-day advent calendar that I just bought. No calories and lots of inspiration!
I’ve finally set up a WordPress account although it is slow going figuring it out. But I got there eventually with Twitter so hopefully I’ll get there with this. But at least now I can actually follow the blogs I love (Guylty!) and will come to love (Kate!, Michele!) without all the annoying extra steps. Maybe. Eventually. Sigh.
But back to work; too much goofing off even though it’s after midnight. At least the room isn’t spinning as much, my fever is mostly gone and I’ve successfully been at the office for 7 hours. But….maybe…just a quick little detour over to see what Kate is up to…
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Take care of yourself!! 💋💋💋 And congratulations on your next step in the technological revolution to enhance your RAppreciation experience.
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LoLo glad you are feeling better. I wish you were around last night I could have called ya. I had a nightmare and woke up at 2:35 am in a cold sweat. Won’t go into the details until after Guylty has posted her Eps 2 review/commentary… I needed your “tall man hubby” feeding me tomato soup for sura!!
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I was bad and read a completely spoilery blog about episode 2, so I suspect I know the content of your nightmare. I’m so sorry! You have dogs for cuddles? I’d be lost without my little old lady cats, one of whom is my new avatar although she’s so tiny, I’m not sure that you can see it’s a cat, lol.
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LoLo, three dogs, smallest is Sascha (supposed to be Schatze but she didn’t like that name so I went Russian instead) a beagle/schnautzer mix, 15 pounds, she’s the sheriff in the house, Maximilian (Max) (born on May 1) he’s a cocker spaniel, all hunky and like a linebacker, and Edmund (Eddie) Labradoodle who at 75 pounds thinks he’s a 10 pound lap tog. They all sleep with me, I need some affection and Eddie takes up half the bed. Yeah the nightmare was me sitting in my car in the field where Daniel wakes up at the start of Ep2 watching him run, get beaten to a pulp then set on fire. Then I woke up and began emailing a few friends to try to calm down. Not good. My brain is trying to absorb what I saw the other night.. I mean I prepared for it to be him, I recognized those luscious hips from the trailer but hoped it wasn’t. Just very gruesome to me..
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LoLo comment away please come visit although mine is not Richardy in nature but there are direct hits/love bites at him.. you could definitely add one of your LoLo Productios there too. esp after you see BS3 Ep 2… you would have a field day with your tall man hubby!!
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Exactly my thinking behind it – no calories, but sweet nonetheless.
And hooray – a WP account for LoLo! Does that mean you might also use it for blogging? Or is it just for commenting purposes for the moment? It definitely makes following other blogs much easier – via the reader view and the little bell in the top right corner: If it has an orange dot, it means that someone has replied to one of your comments or commented on one of your posts.
You are a hardy woman, LoLo – back at the office after a gruelling medical test. Not sure whether that is really good. The docs should have insisted you take a day off!!
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Guylty, so I’m just curious has Flat Richie made his first stop yet> How will we know where he is headed next? Any hints to his destination besides Europa? Curious minds want to know!!!!
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He is nearly there. I have been following his progress and he had made it to the country of destination by Tuesday. He arrived in the city of destination today – but unfortunately no one was at home to receive the package. “No answer at address”… Damn.
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Juhu, großartige Neuigkeiten!!! Nur unverzeihlich, dass die Empfängerin es gewagt hat, das Haus zu verlassen.
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So isses. Hoffentlich ist die Post geduldig 😉
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So it was a home address? Hopefully the first recipient will post or contact you with pics (that is what I plan to do by the way) ok just hedging time.. I ordered something for Flat Richie and it hasn’t come in yet.. .
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Hm, not quite sure whether it was home or office… But I’m not worried yet. The postal service will surely try to deliver the package again tomorrow. Or leave a note that it can be picked up somewhere. And I’m sure the recipient will be in touch as soon as she has received the package.
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Was fürs Auge kann es nie genug geben, also vielen Dank für den Kalender! Freue mich schon aufs Türchen aufmachen 😊.
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Thanks for the link love, Serv!
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Herzlichen Dank für den liebevoll gestalteten Kalender ❤
Ich habe soeben das erste Türchen geöffnet und bin hocherfreut. 🙂
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Me too! I like that you have included #teambeardage #teamcleanshaven and #teamstubble nice mix!!! 😄👍👏👏
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Das siehst du mal wie vielseitig der Mann ist. Für wirklich jede Geschmacksrichtung hat er etwas anzubieten.
… und irgendwie gefällt er mir mittlerweile sogar mit Bart, was ich in den früheren Zeiten nur in Kombination mit dem Thorin-Look gut fand.
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Ja ja sehr gut!! I’m fond of team beardage though now except S3🤦♀️👎😖
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Only grudgingly so. But there you go, that is how good I am to you all 😉
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Yes and we appreciate it!
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*grins* I think all that hubris has really rubbed off on me…
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Nah but you should be proud of your multi talents but I get the deflection I think it is part of your charm who wants to be a freakin know it all? I mean nah can’t go there…,,
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LOL – well, I am currently learning from the master himself *hahaha*
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He could give a master class in it! I’m working on a blog post for next week on the topic ! 😉🤔
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Humility or hubris?
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Well both actually the art of deflection which we both do well I haven’t decided yet to go cheeky or serious
Monday is a serious post but not about BS done with that … nightmare scared me straight on that
Will never watch that ep 2 ever again!
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Looking forward to that, whatever slant you decide on.
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Thanks! Yesterday’s seemed to dissolve into thin air no responses except one like and those pics took foreva to load!! See I’m moody and broody today wish you were here we could go see a play together!!
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Don’t despair – that’s just the weekend. Not every post catches your audience’s attention the same way as others. Plus, I think you put an awful lot of different things into that post, so maybe your reader were simply a bit overstrained?
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Yep you are right I vented a little too much my bad
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Bitte gerne. Kein Ding.
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Och, good thing other commenters reminded me. I‘d plum forgotten about our CalendRA. 😘
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Well, no worries – it’ll be still there tomorrow, and you can always catch up with unopened windows at a later stage.
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I opened it and I must say, the husband has no idea his calendar is far inferior and thank goodness for that. 😂
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Hahaha we needed that humor this morning!!
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Did your husband buy you a calendar? Awww – but that is so nice!!! (I don’t think my husband would ever think of that! He doesn’t like Christmas.)
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No, I got HIM a calendar and until I was reminded of your CalendRA, I was miffed about being the only one who didn’t have one. What I was saying is that he got short end of the stick with the chocolate one I gave him, because I get sexiness on a stick every day. {Wait, did I say that out loud?}
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Well, I bought myself an advent calendar because no one made one for me, either… I have to say that I am pretty happy with what I’ve got, though – lot’s of bits and pieces for crafting. Today there was lots of bling and little flowers and butterflies etc.
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Oh, that sounds like a great one. I’d love that as well. Of course I have no time as is, so what’s the point in getting more craft stuff when you don’t get to craft. 🤷🏻♀️
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Well, hoarding is the next best thing 😉
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Tell me about it.
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And it’s December! Lovely pic for day 1, Guylty 😊
Talking of Lolo’s new wordpress page I suppose I’ll have to get mine out of retirement when flat Richie arrives!
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Glad you like it 🙂
Oh, and you mean Kate’s new blog, right?
A group shot would be great, btw!!!
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Thank you so much Guylty for giving us an RA thrill every day till Christmas
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Glad to be of service 🙂
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Avec un peu de retard, je vous félicite pour tout ce travail. Que de belles réalisations photographiques dans ce calendrier de l’avent! Que de surprises en perspectives, pour égayer nos matins moroses!
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🙂 I hoped that that is exactly what this advent calendar would do – put a little smile into dark December mornings! Thanks, Squirrel 🙂
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🙂
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Also ich bin ja #teambearditage, aber gestern und heute ist mir dann doch zuviel des Guten 😂. Da würd ich am liebsten eigenhändig den Rasierer in die Hand nehmen.
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Ja ich auch unter anderem.( sp?) …
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Perfect German, Michele 👍. But now I can´t resist to ask what else you would like to take in your hands 😉.
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Nordlicht, not suitable for publication here…. visualize him in the showa in Wanderlust…. priceless…..
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I´d prefer to visualize him in the BS shower and, yeah, I can imagine a lot then…
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Jou jou! BS shower works even better!!! Danke danke!!! Du hast meine Traume gemacht!!!!!!!!Traume Traume Traume!!!!
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Hähä *fieslach*. Natürlich absolut absichtlich von mir, ihres Zeichen Vorsitzende der Faktion #stubblitage in der AA, gemacht, um euch ganz (un)subtil vom Bart abzutörnen… *händereib* *insfäustchenlach*
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Aha, ich rieche Sabotage… Aber weißt du was: funktioniert absolut überhaupt gar nicht 😜.
Übrigens gehör ich auch zum #TeamStoppelfeld, bin also durchaus flexibel.
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Das ist natürlich am allerbesten – #crossoveritage
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