F is for..... Fruit Pyramid

When I thought about F, I first thought about what I had done for E. Then it came to me and I thought this would be quite interesting to try. The fruit didn't behave the way I'd hoped, but I'm really glad that it didn't fall apart.







As it's that time of year again, I've also decided to add to the festive season with a German tradition. So here goes....

F is for..... Festive Season

The modern style advent wreath unlit

I love this time of yer, purely because you can decorate your house with all sorts of nice lights, scenes, figurines, tacky blow up Santas or Snowmen etc etc. I love our traditions and live them out as best as I can in a land where multi coloured lights are the hight of tackiness.

There is one German tradition that I find nice though. The Advent time. Its origines are religious and counts down the time till Jesus was born. Christmas Eve is the time when the Germans celebrate Christmas. For this time and to count down till Christmas, you need to get a wreath with 4 candles. Starting on the first Sunday in December, you light a candle till all 4 are lit, by which time Christmas Eve is just a hop, skip and a jump away.

As a child I learnt a nice song for this time of year 'Advent, Advent ein licht-lein brennt. Erst eins, dann zwei, dann drei, dann vier. Dann steht dass Christkind vor der Tür'. Translated it means 'Advent, advent a light is a flame. First one, then two, then three, then four. Then baby Jesus will be at your door.'

As I got fed up with the traditional wreaths I decided to make a new modern style wreath this year. On Sunday I will add another couple of pictures with firstly 1 candle lit and then with 2 candles lit :)

As promised and as it is the 2nd Advent today, here are pictures of the 1st and 2nd canle lit.

With the 1st candle lit signalling the 1st Advent

With the 2nd candle lit, signalling the 2nd Advent