Thread:Nugu54/@comment-33437691-20171113214449/@comment-33611550-20171114084327

So you must live either in Australia or the States, both of which I’ve never visited. My partner is a bit of a home bird so we don’t get to see the world much.

I can only think that those who went forward would have got the start of the Christmas one and, in the past when TT worked properly, the 28 days would have been added to whatever time they had left of the previous one. Once or twice my sister did TT backwards but then got carried away and went past the current date.

One year one of our newspapers put on a Christmas competition. We got a huge map in one of the papers and you picked up a DVD. The beginning of the DVD gave you your first clue and so on and it was breaking codes (even the Inigma Code), all sorts of things. It was such fun but then some killjoy, who couldn’t be bothered or didn’t have a clue how to do it, went and got the answers and posted them online, so the people that were doing the puzzles legitimately hadn’t a hope in hell of ever winning.

One year, instead of merely buying presents for my parents, I planned an Advent Calendar. I had to buy 24 small gifts for each of them - things like a candle sharpener - work out where I was going to hide them and then work out the clues. I started in April of that year. Dad read Dorothy Dunnette novels so one of his clues was “Who done it?” Then he had to work out which novel, the number of words, page number and line as to where the next clue and present was hidden. It was hard work but jolly good fun.