In my day we didn't get chocolates in our Advent calendars. We got little pictures - perhaps a drum or a ball - with the highlight being the Holy Family behind the final (double) window,

And we were happy.

Inspired by that I am doing a Advent calendar with my own photographs this year. Some will have appeared here before, but I shall also use it as a chance to present new ones.

We begin with an old favourites - I just wish I had taken it as a landscape shot.

It shows the ruined engine house at White Grit in Shropshire, with the crest of Bromlow Callow behind it in the distance.