Today's Advent Calendar picture is of Beryl Reid eating a wagon wheel. An actual wagon wheel.

Today's Advent Calendar picture is of the crank handle of an old jalopy.

Today's Advent Calendar picture is of Samuel Beckett breakdancing in the cafe at a garden centre next to the narcissi.

Today's Advent Calendar picture is apppatently an advert for Dreadnought Sheep Dip.

Today's advent calendar picture is of a monk trying to feed a jacket to a horse.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows a small field just outside of Norwich and some of the adjacent lay-by.

Today's advent calendar picture shows Skippy the Kangaroo waiting for an exhaust manifold to be fitted to his Ford Capri. One of the mechanics is Liam Gallagher. It's raining. The Irn Bru drinks machine has an Out of Order notice on it written in calligraphy. The man in the office behind a glass window is sad because nobody appreciates his calligraphy.

Today's advent calendar picture shows kylie Minogue as reimagined in Fuzzy Felt

Today's Advent Calendar picture is of Inspector Poirot looking for a pair of scissors to open the packaging that his newly bought pair of scissors have come in.

Today's advent calendar is a picture of a colander. It's an advent colander.

Today's Advent Calendar picture is very minimalist and shows a penguin at the South Pole looking very quizzically at a harp.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows the starboard spark plugs of a coal barge.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows the Easter bunny.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows a duck behind the wheel of a 1986 Opel Manta being stopped by a policeman who happens to be a ferret, whose pointing at a speed limit sign which says 30mph, while a badger walks past pushing a prom inside of which is a lobster baby, while the other side of the road there's a kangaroo which, inexplicably, is walking a dog.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows a selection of different pasta shapes laid out in size order next to a Philips screwdriver, presumably for scale.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows the bearded captain of the bulk carrier MSC Mercury Thora Hird on the bridge behind the wheel, but he's vogueing, Madonna style, while his First Mate captures the whole thing on his mobile phone, as the other crew on the bridge clap and cheer. They're obviously intending to upload it to Tiktok.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows an exasperated theatre director shouting at an ostrich through a megaphone on a theatre stage. Muscles are bulging in his neck. The ostrich has fluffed another line in the big monologue and will have to start again. The ostrich can barely hide its contempt. The play they are rehearsing is called Up My Left Trouser Leg.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows an advent calendar.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows a moment of hilarity on the novelty farting gnome production line. Doris has put one of them on her head and is doing a silly little dance to Cher's Believe, everyone's laughing, though she doesn't realise that her supervisor is standing right behind her. This is the third time she's done such a thing in the last week. The manufacture of novelty farting gnomes is a serious business, doesn't she understand? And why is it necessary to add the word 'novelty'?

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows the Three Wise Men having stopped off to buy scratch cards , are leaning on a post box and furiously scratching them with 10p coins.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows an argument at the crunch nut corn flake production line because the manager has sped up the conveyor belt and they've obviously started falling off on to the floor, there are boxes everywhere, tempers are fraying, arms raised, red faces, bulging veins in necks, and nobody has noticed that a lion has just sauntered in through the door.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows a runaway flat bed truck with about fifty standard lamps balanced on the back making its way driverless through the giraffe enclosure at a safari park. The giraffes are curious, of course, and somewhat envious of these long necked mechanical objects. Maud from the adjacent tea hut looks up from her urn, she's pointing to the large net that she's kept just for a situation like this.

Today's Advent Calendar picture shows Yogi Bear lying flat on his face with a tranquilliser dart stuck in his rump, in the meat aisle at Morrison's. He's riffled the chiller cabinet and made a hell of a mess.