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🗓️ 5 December 2025
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It is advent which means calendars, Christmas preparation and church services. Esther is making up for her childhood austerity by buying big gaudy chocolate calendars; Giles is curbing his instinct to over buy and both of them are pondering the true meaning of Christmas.
According to recent research couples that drink together stay together…as mismatched drinking habits can be the death knell of a relationship. Are Esther and Giles’ drinking patterns in sync?
For those eschewing Christianity, what are the popular alternatives, and are they worth a look?
Finally, what’s the difference between children and cats…?
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| 0:00.0 | So, Giles, are you now that it is officially Advent... |
| 0:04.3 | Speaking of which... |
| 0:05.1 | What? |
| 0:05.3 | Can you move that shit from over there? Because I can't see all the Advent calendars. Oh yeah. No, I'm not moving that. Move the DPD stuff. No, I don't want to. I want to be able to see them both. Behind you, we've got our lovely, classy Advent calendar that I like that just has pictures of... It doesn't have any chocolate. It's a lovely Victorian housefront |
| 0:20.9 | And behind the doors |
| 0:22.2 | A little mundane things |
| 0:23.5 | They're little birds and twigs and little dog turds and stuff and it's like proper like the old days can I just make it clear there are no dog turd there are any of the windows there are sticks and birds basically there's sticks and birds yeah this is an old fashion Advent calendar that we've got because we're not savages. Well, but we also have two petrol station |
| 0:39.1 | cabri's dairy milk, chocolate, but it's not actually chocolate. But you know why? It's because when I was |
| 0:43.8 | growing up, I had three siblings and there was one cardboard advent calendar between the four of us, |
| 0:50.3 | which we bought from W.H. Smith's and it was, I mean, we would do our nut opening those |
| 0:56.1 | little windows. Now that I've got my two children as a revenge of sorts, they have a chocolate |
| 1:01.2 | one each. So we've got those. We've got the one on every morning. We play. Who can guess? And |
| 1:06.8 | nobody, I can't work out whether my daughter, my son or my wife looks more bored and |
| 1:11.4 | uninvolved when I go, right everybody, let's gather around the old-fashioned Advent calendar |
| 1:16.3 | and guess, I think it shall be a present. |
| 1:18.6 | And they all go bird, fox, dog turd, and anyway. |
| 1:24.0 | So no, so that's all quite festive. |
| 1:25.8 | And that's all quite lovely. |
| 1:26.8 | And you were saying now that Advent's truly started, you started a question. |
| 1:29.6 | And then you just interrupted me. |
| 1:31.0 | And I wanted to lay and set the scene. |
| 1:32.6 | Yeah, Neil nodded. He went, yep, yep. Do you know what? Do you know what I think every... He's Bob Cratchett. Do you know what every couple needs? He's there hunched in the corner. |
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