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Avant-garde a clue
ACROSS9 Ghastly old queen gets to do little – primarily breed, eat, thieve and hunt (9)10 Creep’s typical behaviour? (5)11 Boy, I set extraordinary weight! (7)12 Protection is worn out …
Annibendod Mynwy
When I was in primary school my parents decided I should sit the scholarship entrance exam for Monmouth School. Then as now the private, single-sex boarding school was a bastion …
It’s over
Text message received from my sister 29/1/21: Dad passed away peacefully today. I’m collecting his stuff from the hospital x He was two weeks short of his 97th birthday. I …
Kestrel seen in Splott!
Poor quality picture: Dic Mortimer
Going Bananas
Bananas originate in the tropical jungles of today’s Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines in south-east Asia, where many rare varieties of the massive Musa genus still grow wild. The ideal …
Place your bets
11.59pm WASHINGTON DC BLEAKNESS STAKES(class x) for billionaire tyrants prize: planet Earth distance: not long going: dirty weather: heating up weights: fixed penalties: rigged draw: biased 1 (1) DUMP TRUCK …
Vexation, vexation, vexation
Following on loosely from https://tinyurl.com/yxlda9e5 We’ve got the builders in again, having reluctantly decided to embark on the next phase of renovating this decrepit hovel. This time it’s the ‘utility …
Thorne and Virgo: the halcyon days
It’s a long red Willie. He can play it as a shot to nothing and get back to baulk if he avoids the blue. Key shot…brilliant! He played it a …
Flora Cardiffia
I regularly used to drive up and down the M4 between London and Wales in the 1970s and 1980s, initially on a motorbike and subsequently in a car. When I …
My Old Dutch
The recent death of Roy Hudd (1936-2020) was easy to miss amid the grievous tidal wave of death currently sweeping across the planet, so here I’d just like to put …
