Thing To Do Today: jingle.

 Jingle bells, jingle bells...

...it's a large claim, but I think that Jingle Bells might be the most annoying Christmas song of them all. Mind you, I'm probably scarred by far too many years of teaching recorder (on the descant recorder you can play the first seven notes of Jingle Bells literally within minutes of picking up the instrument up for the first time. To play them well, however, usually proves impossible.).

Still, actual jingling is a pleasant sound. There are even special orchestral Instruments that jingle:

photo by Žiga 

And if you don't have any small bells to hand then you can produce the same effect with a bunch of keys or the coins in your pocket.

A jingle is also a short piece of music, quite often a song, used in advertisements. 

Why not get out your key-ring and jingle along to a jingle?

You never know, it just might lure in an inquisitive reindeer.

Thing To Do Today: jingle. This word is probably an imitation of the sound of jingling. There's a similar Dutch word, jongelen.