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Hi, thank you for your lovely comment and I am so pleased you enjoyed all the walkthroughs. I don't celebrate Christmas very much as I am Pagan and celebrate the Winter Solstice, but family came over and had lunch, which is always lovely! I hope you had a great day yourself. Happy New Year and have a great 2025. Callie x

@@CalliesDiaries 🌲🕯

I agree with you about the attention to detail. Even when I look back at the original first calendar which I think I recorded by haven't added here yet, I will have to take a look and see if it's reasonable as back in the day I had to record off screen, so a camera pointed at the screen from my desk, which ended up picking up strange affects. The calendars go onto the JL site for purchase around November. Although this year you could also purchase last years or play it again as it could be reset if you enjoyed it, which I think was a great idea. I wonder where we will see next see. Paris was obviously after the Olympics this year, last year was the anniversary of the original Edwardian house. Maybe by the seaside again? Skiing in the Alps would be fun! I imagine they are already working on it a year or two in advance! Thanks for watching, my next vlog will probably be me playing all the games as someone has requested that and then they will be back to castles, stately homes or days out if that is of interest to you. Have a wonderful Christmas and best wishes for the Coming Year from Leicestershire!

@@CalliesDiaries I hope you and yours, too, have a very happy Christmas and a great New Year. With best wishes from Oxford! 🥂 🎂 😃

This was a tough one. He's a cloud in the sky!

If you click on the santa hat top right you can scroll through the days you have already found and get a hint where to look for him!

Thank you for commenting and I am pleased you enjoyed the look at his home and of course him. He was amazing!

Sorry to read you haven't enjoyed it so much. Did it get better for you as the days rolled on?

Hello Oxford! Thank you for your comment and I am so pleased you enjoyed the walkthrough this week. Have a great week now the weather has calmed down, storm Darragh was a bad one! Hope you weren't affected in anyway!

@@CalliesDiaries Hello! No, fortunately we escaped the worst of storm Darragh; I hopeit will be the last for many months! I do hope your Advent calendar and mobile app gain many more views - you certainly deserve them.

@@williamevans9426 Thank you for your lovely kind words, the first walkthrough I put up always gets the best views, which is a shame as it's not even "live" - but that's yourtube for you! I will video again at the weekend for the this week. Have a great rest of the week, C

@@CalliesDiaries I look forward to your next post. I hope you, too, enjoy the next few days!

What is a Cochannet game?

I will look at night as I am assuming if anything can be done it will be when it's dark outside! Today it's snowing!

Hi, I have taken a look and I can't see a way of making it dark. What might be a great idea is to actually email Jacquie Lawson via their website and ask if there is a way of building this into the apartment for next year. I am sure they would love to hear feedback.

Yes, I too would encourage folks to submitted suggestions: I've submitted a couple of suggestions via their IG page and JL seems very receptive 😊​@CalliesDiaries

@@BohemianWomanRising HI, thanks for the comment, that's really great to know.

Hiya, just noticed the apartment dark feature is now working 😊

This is always the same when it's a street scene, everything kicks into place on 1st of December.

Frustrated cannot find santa . Some games difficult to work out and i miss the little extras animals that popped out or moved , smoke from chimneys .clock and ball on a balcony is the only thing i have found to react ..Not nearly as good as previous years . Wont be buying it next year

@@lynnluck8021 Each year has always been very different. Which Santa can't you find? They are all there as I don't touch my copy of the Calendar and once you find one, the next appears. On my new video here: th-cam.com/video/dV3aTnFd12E/w-d-xo.html I do a week one walkthrough and you can see where all the Santas appear. I am working out the new games myself, which I should be able to record. Why don't you email the Jacquie Lawson team with the things you miss, perhaps as they are building the next 2-3 years calendars they will add things back in.

Hi Peter and welcome back! Where has the last year gone? I feel it's shot by far to quickly this year, only seems like a few months ago I was recording last years. I will definitely keep you updated as we move through December. C x

Lovely! Thank you @@CalliesDiariesx

Yes! Sadly most of them don't play at all now and hard work to keep going. The poor laptop starts puffing like an old steam train and it takes me ages to record. So, I was lucky to get what I could! lol xx

@ ohh I see!! I bought the 2023 one just now because this one was the one I played when I was little so I wanted to replay it! Sadly the main room is different but it’s still nostalgic!

@@courtneyh8996 the apartment has been updated every year to give more things to do and lots more goes on through each day. It's still great fun! x

@@CalliesDiaries ohh I see!

@@CalliesDiaries is there a scene where the black dog is running around outside while you watch the snowflakes you make fall I feel like I remember that vividly but I can’t find it

You are most welcome and I am pleased you enjoyed it! I hope you get to visit too x

@@nicolarae1306 what a lovely gift and a super way to remember her. The calendar is available to buy here: www.jacquielawson.com/advent/paris and it’s out now. I’m getting mine this weekend, looking forward to this one in Paris. Let me know you get on as I will be adding a walk through as usual. XX

@CalliesDiaries Thank you so much. Please standby as I may need your help. I'm not very technical 😍 xxx

@ no problem. Here to help if I can x

That's great news! I am so pleased you enjoyed it!

@@CalliesDiaries Yes,👍 Well I'm very confused about Newton vs Einstein for over 2 weeks, can you help me to know who is greater? I have to choose my favourite physicist among them

@@PrinceSarraf0314 Hmmm, 🤔 to be honest they are both as great as each other. One discovers gravity and the other in the future does more with the theory and science as it's developed. So both really are great men. Personally I think they are both equal to each other, when you have to personally choose your favourite then it's down to what you think in your research and any argument you wish to make in support of that person. This link gives a 'Versus' each other which may help - decide for yourself which one you feel is important and why. Because it's your opinion it can never be wrong as far as I am concerned: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/newton-einstein-gravity Keep me informed on how you feel through your research. C xx

You are so great who gave me the best explanation ever about this concern. I'm going to be a physicist, The Einstein field equation of general relativity and Newton's equation of gravity both captivated me very much, both are the best explanation of gravity in their own era. Well that's great you support me, I want to choose only one of these two towering figures. So at all, thanks a lot 🙏🙏

Well what I think deeply about them is Einstein's theory of gravity was more open minded and charismatic than Newton's. Einstein revolutionized the 2000 year-old idea of Aristotle and Plato that time and space are absolute. After intense research and deep intuition, I believe Newton's theory was the greatest revolution in its own era but for all time, not more than Einstein's theory. So in the context of ranking for me, if Newton ranked 1 then Einstein should be ranked 0.999999999999999999.

Hi, yes a lovely place to retire to, but I often say to people, don't buy straight away try renting somewhere for a few months in the worst part of the year, winter! When it's cold and damp and never quite snows and the wind knocks you off your feet on the beaches lol THEN, bear in mind that from April to October the caravan parks open and the country lanes are full of people who can't reverse - so learn to reverse a car in absolutely no space at all because believe me you will be the one having to reverse into a hedge! All local cars have what is called Devon Rash down the near side doors!!!! PLUS, not only does it then get horrendously busy for the summer holidays, but also lots of people come into North Devon to get married! Would I go back and live there (currently out of county) knowing all this? Yes! But I do know a lot of people who have moved in, don't like how different it is to when they were there on holiday, and moved out. So, as I said at the beginning try a rental, sometimes in the winter you can get long term holiday lets for 3-6 months and you can wangle a decent price too as the places will stand empty! As for Kite surging, yes they do that and sometimes I believe it's also on Saunton Sands as that beach is really big too, it's where they filmed the plane landing in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society movie - you can actually see Westward Ho! in the background. Hope I haven't waffled on too much, Callie xx

You are most welcome and I am pleased you enjoyed it.

it's THE house!

I have owned apple trees well over 50 years old. There are some in the South West of England that are incredibly old. Perhaps this link will help: www.ancienttreeforum.org.uk/ancient-trees/ancient-tree-sites-to-visit/midlands/woolsthorpe-manor-lincolnshire/#:~:text=We%20are%20pretty%20certain%20that,itself%20and%20still%20produces%20apples.

That's so sad you had this experience. The house is owned by the National Trust, but the family still live in half of it and also it's closed for 6 months of the year when the family use all the house. It's only open for short periods. As you can see from my vlog when we visited we saw all the open spaces available. Sounds to me as if some large scale work is being done. Most houses close over the winter for curator work! I have never found a house not to educate anyone, because that is what the volunteers are there for in nearly every room to tell the stories of the houses. Having visited many over the years I have never found a house empty of volunteers whose enthusiasm for the house is wonderful. Even the gardeners have stopped to talk to me in the past about their work! It's such a shame Coughton is under scaffolding. Did you speak to anyone at the house about it or at the gate house on entry? Perhaps contact them and leave them feedback.

It's a lovely place, I would really like to go back and see the gardens at different times of the year.

That's ok! Am pleased you enjoyed the rest of it.

Hey! Many thanks and happy 2024 to you too! I am still squeezing, I have just found two old JL calendars not on here so am trying to get them uploaded asap so I don’t annoy anyone who’s done with Christmas!! 🤦🏼‍♀️.

@@CalliesDiariesWell, strictly speaking, we have 'til Twelfth Night (three more days)!

@@williamevans9426 Kindof! I am actually Pagan and have been for40 years, so my 12 days of Christmas start on 20th of December and finish on 31st, the old ways! But, these days I just about go with anything to extend the Holiday season a bit longer! 😀

@@CalliesDiaries Ah, the yuletide season. I hope you've retained a fragment of the log to kindle this year's blaze when it comes around!

Absolutely, along with all the 12 days or merriment that take place - always fun! @@williamevans9426

Do you mean where he comes down the chimney into the room and then goes back up again? If so, then no. The reason why I had to record it off the app is because it loaded on my laptop and plays only the once. Hope that helps. Happy Christmas x

Hi Callie, Thank you. Yes, that is what I was looking for. If I hadn't found your video, I couldn't prove what I saw and others missed. I was looking for the same kind of appearance this year, in the Edwardian calendar. I did have help to find Father Christmas. I wonder if he can always be evoked?@@CalliesDiaries

I am not sure if he can. In the original 2013 video he pops in around a corner, back then to make him re-appear on Christmas eve you had to just play the 23rd and 24th bauble again to almost re-set the game, and then a note came up on the screen saying to look out for something (can't remember what it said now)! Bear with me, I am just editing the 2013 Edwardian as I have been asked for it a few times now, it should be live by the end of this week - it's quite rough being on a really old computer, but it's watchable! xx

Hi, it's just a game, nothing comes out of it at the end to be honest. Just beating your last score and making either a horizontal line or vertical. There should be something to explain the game to you, once you are in the game?? xx

I noticed the birds fly out, nice feature

Did you see you can play this again, if you load it up, it can be rebooted to play from the start. Which I thought was a nice gesture. I have added in 2024 walkthroughs, did you buy the Calendar again this year? Happy Christmas!