It's 23 days until December 1 and you might need every one of them if you decide to take part in my music challenge for Christmas! This is the #AdventChallenge2025 and as usual with my challenges that aren't year based I am using prompts that will require research and thinking

#My2025Almanac November 13 is World Kindness Day - good luck with that! The fact that we need reminding shows how alien kindness is to our natures. We need to be taught kindness but the opposite comes naturally. Enough of my rant (!), here's Glen Campbell

#My2025Almanac November 12. American singer Jo Stafford was born on this day in 1917. Don't recognise the name? Hardly surprising as her main success came in the 1950s with songs that have become obscure. One song that has stood the test of time though

#Allthefives 1985 Track 2 and this is something of a forgotten classic from Dee C Lee. It was, amazingly, her only Top 10 hit as a solo artist, but she was a backing singer for Wham! and a featured singer for The Style Council where she had great success.

My Doctor Who Poster https://t.co/wfVDGBhX5d via @music_pearce 15 years, 5 members of the UNIT Family and a lovely meeting with @ManningOfficial

#My2025Almanac November 11 It is, of course, #RemembranceDay when, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the guns finally fell silent at the end of the First World War. Today we will once again fall silent. Here is Nimrod by Elgar

#Allthefives 1985 Track 1 and I start with an absolute banger of a tune that still sounds brilliant today. A Top 3 hit for Ashford and Simpson in February 1985, here's the fantastic Solid.

I noticed a typo in my calendar above. Days 19 & 20 were exactly the same 🤦 The correct version is below and I will reshare it much nearer the beginning of December. There's a decent amount of interest already so I am really looking forward to it. #AdventChallenge2025

#Allthefives moves on to 1985 tomorrow, but I have another music challenge for the first 24 days of next month. My #AdventChallenge2025 is a mix of music and memories to ease you into Christmas. I would love to see as many of you as possible so see my pinned post for details 😍🎅

#My2025Almanac Greg Lake was born on November 10 1947. Famous for his work with the amazing Emerson Lake and Palmer his most enduring song is of course I Believe in Father Christmas. It's close enough (!!) so here is that seasonal classic

#Allthefives Track 5 of 1975. Always the most difficult of any of the years because you have to leave so many out. So, here is the summer hit of 1975 from Typically Tropical, the ridiculous and ridiculously catchy Barbados. As a 10 year old I loved it

Sorry I have to keep plugging my wares, but business has been so awful this year and I have to try and make some sales. Premium slimlime A3 farmyard calendars available on my website featuring my drawings. https://t.co/Rdak98ukNZ #art #drawing

The time has come to say goodbye. Follow us + RT to enter to #win a copy of #DowntonAbbey: The Grand Finale, available November 11 on 4K Ultra HD!

#My2025Almanac On November 9 1984, Australian singer/songwriter and actress Delta Goodrem was born. Her first album Innocent Eyes was a great debut with some gorgeous songs including the title track and perhaps my favourite track A Year Ago Today

#Allthefives Track 4 of 1975 is a song by Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony. One of the earliest disco tracks to really make an impression in the UK, The Hustle is based on a dance performed by patrons in the Adam's Apple nightclub in New York

#Allthefives Track 3 of 1975 is a song that I was obsessed by as a kid. After choosing it in another challenge I bought a copy and those memories came absolutely flooding back! Here's Guys and Dolls with There's a Whole Lot of Loving, a forgotten classic

#My2025Almanac and the all round musical genius Roy Wood was born on this day in 1946. Co-founder of The Move, ELO and Wizzard, he was always at the forefront of innovation. Here are The Move and the first song played on Radio 1 Flowers in the Rain

The prompts cover a variety of themes. I hope that some of the choices might come with stories attached. If they do, please feel free to share them. If you want to give it a go let me know and please share. Here's to Christmas fun, music and memories 🎅🎅 #AdventChallenge2025

#Allthefives Track 2 from 1975 is one of two Country music classics that hit the higher reaches of the charts. Tammy Wynette reached Number 1 with Stand by your Man and Glen Campbell had a Top 5 with the timeless Rhinestone Cowboy

#My2025Almanac November 7 in 1879 saw the birth of Leon Trotsky famously namechecked in No More Heroes by The Stranglers. It's also October Revolution Day which he did so much to bring about. I loved studying early 20th Century Russian history at school.