Advent.
This photo taken this morning outside a TV studio here, is further proof that Christmas is on its way.
Every year, our beloved listeners send us their photos for the season and this year is no exception. Please send your advent photo to pm@bbc.co.uk. Please put ADVENT in the subject line.
We'll post one photo here each day from the first of December. As ever, please accept our apologies if yours isn't chosen.
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It seems amazing how quickly this annual spot on the blog has come around again.
Looking forward to the pictures as ever.
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'Beloved listeners' - AHHH!!!
Now for a quick rummage ....
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Beloved listeners indeed!
BigSis - Eddie's now trying to make us believe that iPM will be coming 'live' from a listeners house on Saturday morning!
........ the irony being they expect us to believe it!!!
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I'll have you know it will be live from a listener's house. We have busted the travel budget...
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Hm, so a listener based in Shepherd's Bush is it, Eddie? ;o)
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Oh, and another thing, Eddie, don't let the blogging catch you out at the end of the programme like it did last night .....
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I SO want to host it! You'd all have to use the Tardis to get here but I would happily accommodate everyone.
How did you choose the gaff? Was there a raffle I missed out on?
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Bah Humbug!
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"This photo taken this morning outside a TV studio here, is further proof that Christmas is on its way."
I wonder, are "we" sure it's on its' way-in, as opposed to being on its' way-out?
There is, after all, a recession. Oh, AND, Mr Ross' salary to pay once more, in the early New-year, it would seem...
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I know. If Advent's here, can Xmas be far behind? Regular as, well, calendar-work. Luckily for those into PCH (Premature Christmas Humbuggery), it looks as if the Crimbo Specials have already been recorded over at TC.
Here's a thought - do they chuck the used trees out, or recycle them for live progs? What, in fact, is the Beeb's artificial pine footprint?
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just had a little off blog chat with Annasee, Fifi, Mittfh, we were trying think what other interactive catagories Eddie could come up with.
Off the top of my head we have had :
* Windows on your world - probably the biggest of all
* Sounds of summer when Big Ben's striking mechanism needed a new cog
* the yearly Advent calendar
* Autumn photo's
* Early spring - (bluebells in Feb .. etc..)
Now I can't think of any mid winter ones - stormy scenes, barren fields etc..
Perhaps an idea?
Or maybe just last years Summer photo's in Winter would cheer us up more!
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Jonnie:
Eddie has done Winter photos - I recall going out and photographing Dafydd in the snow ....
Winter photos are lovely. Perhaps a Jack Frost category? You get stunning landscape pictures, too. Sunsets can be extraordinary .... I really think it's something Eddie can expand on.
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I think we should bombard PM with photos of our Christmas Dinner ;o)
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"Beloved listeners" - um, is that in the same sense as "the Dear Leader" ? i e possibly heavily ironical?
Yes, re interactivity- we were just reminiscing back to the old days when all you had to do was switch on the radio, get a nice cup of tea, sit down and listen.
Now it's like getting your homework from school - "send us an email" "send us a photo" "send us a pointless postcard" "let us have your soundclip". When will this madness stop?? I've a good mind to write to Feedback about it...
Gill - 13- what about a "Who's got the biggest/ fanciest gift box of chocolates?" competition?
I mean, with the best will in the world, aren't the Xmas dinners going to look a little, well, samey? How many pictures of sprouts does Eddie want? He's not Sid, after all!
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Annasee,
I'm sure I heard you on ipm recently - you know that interactive podacst thingy, that Eddie broadcasts - the one where a radio crew descend on a beloved listeners house at 5:45 on a Saturday morning when the surrounding neighbours are trying to get some peace and quiet!
Mind you - being Radio 4 it may well be a large estate. Can't wait for the radio alarm to wake me up on Saturday and find out.
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jonnie- I deny everything. Can't have been me.
May have to get up early to listen to iPM now though - I'm so intruiged! -(and how DO you spell that word? none of my variants look right)
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annasee @ 16, for some reason I have it as 'intrigued' without thinking. I hope it's right, because I am certainly stuck with that spelling! :-)
It's because one of my children used to say it 'intri-gewed', and I don't see why she'd have got it like that if it weren't spelt that way, I think. (Like 'anti-podes' instead of an-tip-oh-dees, and 'Go-eth' instead of Gerter...)
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Chris - thank you! You're right. As soon as I see it correctly written I recognise it. Brain just couldn't manage the re-arranging of letters required.
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Annasee (14) I didn't think you needed to write - don't you have a direct line? :-)
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PS My comment (19) refers to the mention of a certain interactive R4 programme!
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I sent a photo within seconds of the announcement appearing.....
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Advent.
Like the cuckoo in spring, a reliable harbinger of Advent is the annual News report, at this time of year, that High Street sales are few and commercial disaster awaits the retailers. After Christmas it always transpires that record profits have been made after all.
David Swinson
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Seems to me that retailers are like farmers: grumbling is part of the job description.
David @ 22, if things are not better, ie if more hasn't been spent, every year then it's a recession. The thing that I always wonder in a vague way is how something on a finite planet can be expected to expand indefinitely, and why if we *don't* use up progressively more of everything each year this is such a disaster really.
Well, I also wonder why on earth we need new christmas tree baubles every year rather than keeping them (as some of the ones in my family have been kept) for decades and in the case of one glass decoration for over a century...
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