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On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me...

I know, it’s hardly a partridge in a pear tree but it is the first of the 12 December days before I meet you in Jacksonville. And there’ll be a blog post on each and every one of them - a sort of advent calendar, if you like.

As an aside, I used to have bendies a bit like these when I was a kid (a lot younger than you, though). I still remember being severely disappointed when the outer ‘skin’ came off and it was just wire inside.

Oh, there’s a Christmas glow-stick too.