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When I was in the process of buying a house a number of years ago one place had scented candles burning -- I was sniffing and sneezing so bad I had to leave. Another man had been told by friends to have a radio in every room tuned to the same station -- only it was the station my boss at the time listened to and drove me crazy. Others may react the same way to the smell of coffee -- or assume that it's too cover up some less desirable odor.
The place we're buying had icons of saints and statues of Our Lady all around the place. I don't remember any candles burning though.
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Spike: The place we're buying had icons of saints and statues of Our Lady all around the place.
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One of the places I looked at on the web in Fredericton seemed to have crosses on the wall in nearly every room. Presumably the owners would take them away ...
It's been a busy day chez Piglet; we gave church a miss and got stuck in with tidying, chucking out, rearranging and (in my case) quite a lot of swearing. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
The study is now almost as we want it and I think it'll look quite civilised. If we can persuade Bill the handyman to actually do all the stuff he's said he would (and has been saying he would for the last four years ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) ), it should be ready for its photo-shoot soon.
Famous last words ... ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Twiglet goes to Big School a week on Wednesday, so we are on the countdown now ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
Where did that year go??
I've got an older pup arriving soon after, name of Deacon ~ maybe he's into religion? He'll be attending Church either way.
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I see our esteemed spies have joined Twitter, with an account @GCHQ. What I wonder, though, is of the first 59 accounts they have chosen to follow, most seem obvious; but why Katherine Jenkins? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Sipech: I see our esteemed spies have joined Twitter, with an account @GCHQ. What I wonder, though, is of the first 59 accounts they have chosen to follow, most seem obvious; but why Katherine Jenkins?
Blasted, I should have been more careful about with whom I tried to find out more information about the UK.
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Originally posted by Boogie:
Twiglet goes to Big School a week on Wednesday, so we are on the countdown now
Where did that year go??
I've got an older pup arriving soon after, name of Deacon ~ maybe he's into religion? He'll be attending Church either way.
Good grief that's gone quick. Condolences and congratulations, Boogie.
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I was thinking exactly what A-in-E said - I can't believe she's ready for the off.
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Welease Woderwick
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Indeed the time has gone quickly! Best wishes with Deacon.
* * * *
So there I was, last Saturday morning standing on a crowded train as it gently sauntered upstate when the woman standing next to me says:
I want to talk to you about the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Yikes, thought I.
I informed her that I am a Quaker - this confuses her as Quakers are not widely known here, me being the only extant one in the entire state, so I divert her by giving a quick breakdown of the history of Quakers in Kerala and that the nearest Quaker community is 2+ days train ride and several states away.
We then talk about her kids and family and so on but then later:
I want to talk to you about the second coming of Jesus Christ.
So I was rather naughty and resumed my little talk about the history of Quakers in Kerala.
Anyway, it worked - and then we got to Irinjalakuda and she and her family disembarked and I managed to find a seat!
So I got peace and quiet and she knows more about the diversity of the Christian Community - WIN-WIN!
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Clever WW - I doubt that I'd have handled it as well as that.
I've just had a thought re: Boogie's new dog. If he's a Deacon at the moment, does he become a Priest when he graduates from puppy training?
And get to wear a dog-collar? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I'll get my coat ...
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GROAN!!
But very clever, I like it.
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We are preparing for a feast thingy tomorrow for extended family and a few select neighbours, something to do with Herself's stage in her pregnancy - she would normally be moving then to live with her mum until a few months after the kids have hatched but she is staying here to be much nearer the hospital. This morning she was moving heavy furniture about and got a bit of a mild reprimand from me but...
Her diabetologist called her yesterday and told her in no uncertain terms to get a grip so hopefully she will listen - bingeing on ice cream when pregnant and with gestational diabetes is NOT a good idea!
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As (I hope) the titivations continue apace chez Piglet, I've just seen on the estate agents' web-site an utterly to die for house about 15 minutes outside Fredericton listed at $20,000 (about £10,000). ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Sadly, I suspect there may be a nought missing in the price. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
PS WW, could you persuade Herself to binge on something like carrots instead?
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Welease Woderwick
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She'd have to fight me for them! I love carrots.
She has a very sweet tooth, it's tough on her but worse for the unborn.
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Originally posted by Boogie:
I've got an older pup arriving soon after, name of Deacon ~ maybe he's into religion? He'll be attending Church either way.
I sense a meet Deacon northern meet on the horizon. Anyone fancy hosting it?
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Originally posted by Piglet:
... Sadly, I suspect there may be a nought missing in the price.
Sadly, I was right. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Wodders, you can't go around fighting with pregnant ladies, even if there are carrots at stake.
I sympathise with Herself though; although I'd infinitely prefer to end a meal with cheese, grapes and port, I also have quite a strong weakness for CHOCK-LIT ...
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Welease Woderwick
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The weather: monsoon seems to have set in about 10 days early. Fine by me as I love the rain, I just hope it doesn't decide to then go AWOL for a while like it did last year. Night temperatures have dropped enough to warrant a light blanket but have not yet descended to the nightshirt stage, that comes at about 20°C.
In other news preparations for today's feast move on apace and the kitchen has been declared a no-go area for people of the male-from-UK variety. I am happy to be up here on call if required.
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Hope your feast goes well, WW (with or without input from yourself).
I've just taken what will probably be my penultimate set of minutes for the Anglican Cemetery Committee, and (apparently due to an archdiaconal brainfart) had the opposite of a feast, and what may have been the worst tea-break catering in Anglican history. Plain, slightly salty crackers of the sort that you might serve with cheese (if you didn't have very good taste), but without the cheese, instant coffee, tea-bags and a couple of kettles and that was it.
![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
St. A********'s, sponsored by Weight Watchers ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Indeed, especially compared to the veritable feast put on by the wife of one of the Cathedral reps last month.
I sometimes feel that the different churches (there are eight represented on the committee) vie with each other for the title of Top Caterer, but St. A's didn't even try.
He could have brought a big box of Timbits™.
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In a moment of madness I volunteered to do the nibbles for an AGM. Thin sliced French sticks with ham/egg/cheese topping. Easy peasy. Then I thought about all that hand slicing....
However, my local branch of Sainsburys had a lovely lad on the bread counter who put the smaller batons through their bread slicer for me. Buttering the results and the laying on of fillings will be much easier on the hands. I can see it all happening (tomorrow.)
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Welease Woderwick
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Feast over, people all departed, the usual somnolent hush settles over the house - the cat is much relieved, she doesn't cope well with crowds.
What I found odd was that on one occasion Herself was expected to sit on the floor - easy enough to get down but at 6 months pregnant and carrying twins getting up needed some assistance! For the next bit they found a stool for her, much kinder.
I was chatting to lovely neighbour, who is from another caste/community, and she said they don't do anything like that at all; she was most impressed.
[And I've just realised that I've been so busy that I haven't taken my morning tablets today so is it surprising that my back is playing up a bit? I'll take them now and then my evening ones just before bed.]
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Originally posted by balaam:
quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
I've got an older pup arriving soon after, name of Deacon ~ maybe he's into religion? He'll be attending Church either way.
I sense a meet Deacon northern meet on the horizon. Anyone fancy hosting it?
Good idea - also, anyone is welcome to my GD coffee and cakes morning at our house on the 28th May 10:30 - 2pm. I am fundraising to name a guide dog puppy "Coffee". (Pm me for our address) ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Originally posted by jacobsen:
In a moment of madness I volunteered to do the nibbles for an AGM. Thin sliced French sticks with ham/egg/cheese topping. Easy peasy. Then I thought about all that hand slicing....
I used to help in the kitchen at a holiday for disabled people once a year. Sometimes we would do a "simple" lunch of sandwiches. Cooking a meal for 30 people is damn sight easier than preparing sandwiches for 30 people.
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Absolutely, Spike - sandwiches are such a faff. I'm sure I'm not alone in being completely incapable of resisting sandwiches made by other people.
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We had a state-wide election on Monday and the votes were counted and results declared today [all but one where a voting machine is being difficult about giving up its totals] and the left of centre parties have trounced not only the sitting [centrist] government of the state but also the threat from the extreme-right communalists, who only got one seat - still one seat too many but far, far better than it could have been; they were prophesying 20-30 seats for themselves; in most places they came in third!
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Something weird is happening in our house. We live in a village, M - 3 kilometres east is town P and 4 kilometres west is smaller town K. We sit almost upon the constituency boundary line but I have no idea about ley lines here in India, though there is a very ancient Hindu temple just 150 metres ESE of the house.
If I am in my bedroom, which is a few metres west of this office/study my phone registers me as in K, to the east of us; if I am in this study/office, a few metres east of the bedroom, my phone registers me as in P, to the west of us.
Do you think the house is possessed of a demon? Or many of them?
I have tried spinning my head on my neck with a conspicuous lack of success so I don't think I am the one possessed.
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RE the AGM catering - it was interesting to see what was eaten and what not. Egg, cheese and pate all evaporated, but the ham not so much (although there was more ham than anything else.) I'll know for next time. Also, even though the French sticks were thin sliced, toping on small crisp biscuits (a response to an email telling my that numbers were going to be double the original estimate) had a pleasant variety of texture, a mixture of crisp biscuit and soft topping. Worth remembering.
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WW, is it possible that the strength/direction of the phone signals varies from one place to another, and that your device (phone, I-pad or whatever) is picking them up from different places?
Not that I understand the first thing about phone signals, you understand - it's just a thought.
It seems that the gods of Newfoundland weather have caught on to the idea of public holidays (of which we have one on Monday). The forecast for today, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday is glorious, with rain on Monday ...
However, it should leave enough decent days to get the exterior painting and whatnot done chez Piglet so that it looks nice for its photo-shoot.
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I think I've worked it out - Uncle Pete is possessed, as we all know, so it is all quite clearly HIS FAULT!
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Absolutely, Spike - sandwiches are such a faff. I'm sure I'm not alone in being completely incapable of resisting sandwiches made by other people.
I don't know. Sandwiches made the day before, especially egg sandwiches made the day before, are very easily resisted.
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I think I've worked it out - Uncle Pete is possessed, as we all know, so it is all quite clearly HIS FAULT!
Or possibly not. They've changed their minds again and moved the rain to next Thursday.
In other news, D. and I have, through the miracle of the interweb, seen details of a house in Fredericton that we think would suit us in the way that tonic suits GIN.
If we can just persuade the sellers to hold on to it until Château Piglet is sold ... ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) - For the house sale, Piglet.
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Up early this morning and completed the shopping by 8 am, and got a sundried tomato and parmesan loaf baked. Why is freshly baked bread so irresistible? I'm going to have to bake something else tomorrow as this one won't last the weekend
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It's addictive, isn't it? I really didn't eat an awful lot of bread before we started making our own; D. would always have a slice or two with his lunch or supper, but I rarely bothered unless we were having soup, or if it was integral to the dish, like eggs or beans on toast. Now he has to fight me for it.
Mind you, it would take a lot more than a fresh sun-dried-tomato loaf to have me up early enough to have the shopping (or anything else for that matter) done by 8 on a Saturday morning ... ![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif)
It's a glorious day here, and we're going down to the Irish Loop Coffee House this afternoon to have coffee with a friend, which should be jolly.
There may also be outbreaks of painting.
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Absolutely, Spike - sandwiches are such a faff. I'm sure I'm not alone in being completely incapable of resisting sandwiches made by other people.
I don't know. Sandwiches made the day before, especially egg sandwiches made the day before, are very easily resisted.
Egg sandwiches, whether newly made or not, are always easily resisted. I can't stand the smell.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Absolutely, Spike - sandwiches are such a faff. I'm sure I'm not alone in being completely incapable of resisting sandwiches made by other people.
Which is why M&S, Sainsbury's etc. sell millions of highly profitable sandwiches every day.
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Coffee (well it was actually a late lunch) with our friend was indeed jolly (and v. flavoursome - D. had a lamb curry, I had a lentil-burger with salad and our friend had a roast lamb sandwich, then we both had different sorts of cheesecake, all of which was yummy).
On the way home we picked up some paint, which D. has applied to the front steps, and I commandeered some left over from touch-ups done in my bathroom and started on D's, until I ran out of paint (and reached a point that I couldn't reach).
Must go now and take the sheets out of the tumble-dryer and put them back on the bed.
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Today, waking up at 5.00 AM and 20 minutes ahead of the alarm, I changed the bed linen and sorted out the washing - one load into the machine - before leaving for work at 6.30. virtue triumphant. ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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I managed my washing, washing-up, bins out, bill paying, booking train tickets and packing before leaving at 10am on Saturday morning. Tickets were for going away in August as they are put on the site.
We spent the weekend in Beverley, which was beautiful, a wealthy town in mediaeval times, still thriving. It looks as if the industry moved to Hull, leaving Beverley with much of its old town centre. There are a couple of tourist / educational trails, which are very discreet and subtle, one based on the mediaeval tradesmen's guilds, which is listed as four different walks, and another on their most famous artist(s), Fred and Mary Elwood. We got asked couple of times if we were lost as we were trying to spot the symbols marking the trades, to be told that one of the locals couldn't help with that, as wasn't aware they were there.
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People often don't notice things like that when they're right on their doorstep or they pass them every day on the way to w*rk.
Considering today's a holiday (happy birthday, Queen Victoria!), the weather here is really rather good - blue skies with a few fluffy clouds.
The handyman's busy making the banister-rails look civilised, and once he's finished with the paint, I'll apply what's left to D's bathroom.
We're getting there ...
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Considering today's a holiday (happy birthday, Queen Victoria!), the weather here is really rather good - blue skies with a few fluffy clouds.
It used be called Empire Day here - a half-day holiday at school after singing such songs as Land of Hope and Glory etc. In the afternoon, we built bonfires to be lit at night while we set off fireworks. All very jolly and imperial. Then it became ultra-modern, and was called Commonwealth Day, then abolished and became a full public holiday on the first Monday in June, called the Queen's Birthday. Finally the sale of fireworks to the general public was banned on safety grounds. We still keep the holiday, though fewer and fewer of us each year remain with the happy memories of double bungers, roman candles and so forth.
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Lothlorien
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I especially remember the catherine wheel which spun so fast on a nail on a post that it spun off and landed in my box of crackers.
Empire Day was celebrated after the bonfire with mum's traditional superb sausage rolls and her amazing pea and ham soup.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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I read somewhere that the way to stave off dementia is not doing crosswords, if you have always done crosswords - so yesterday I completed my very first Sudoku ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Yay me!
What I should point out is that this was the Telegraph's Gentle one, which you should be able to complete in ten minutes - it took me all day and I had to rub it all out and start again at least twice! Even then, when I finally submitted it, there were errors
Who knew anything so easy could be so difficult!
Mrs. S, who can even do the Toughie crossword on a good day ...
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Welease Woderwick
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I have loaded Sudoku on both my smartphone and my tab and it is all a terrible, but rather fun, waste of time. I probably do 6 a day at least and on a long train journey do many more.
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I love the fact that puzzling can keep the mind active and stave off the onset of dementia. I look at my beloved Weasel and realise that doing Sudoku alone is maybe not sufficient, but there are such a fabulous variety of challenges to keep the grey matter busy. I'm currently hooked on Riddle Stones on Facebook - it's rather nice to say "I'm doing my brain exercises" rather than "I'm frittering my time away on internet games"
Meanwhile, I'm benefiting from a bit of unaccustomed free time which is really making me feel old. Whilst running a school residential trip two weeks ago I managed to sustain some ligament damage to my foot, so I'm currently signed off and doing meaningful foot-strengthening exercises like standing on one leg. I feel quite a fraud as it doesn't hurt much as long as I'm not wearing shoes and not wakling on it much...... Rather nice that the weather's taking a turn for the better and I can recouperate out in the garden for some of the time.
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I think the knack is to vary the puzzles so your mind doesn't get set in a groove. I have a book of Sudoku puzzles – when I was going through the menopause brain-fog the only ones I could cope with were the simplest, but they helped a lot to get my brain working again. Now I can do the Times Fiendish. I'm also having a go at the cryptic crosswords in whatever paper comes first to hand. My record so far is 13 clues in the Metro, which felt like a real achievement.
They also say learning languages is also a help, but that's something I've always enjoyed anyway. Duolinguo is a fun app for that: some of the sentences it throws up are so nonsensical that they’re quite memorable. "The elephants are reading the newspaper." Well, get it off them quick before they start on the cryptic crossword.
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I tried a language course (actually a refresher) but, for various reasons, that didn't work out. I may try again.
I enjoy crossword puzzles and jigsaw puzzles, but they're solitary pursuits.
A friend has talked me into Mah Jongg. It takes a lot of thought and skill (as well as luck), but more importantly the three women with whom I play are intelligent, they read A LOT, take classes, etc. (and are a lot of fun).
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I tried a language course (actually a refresher) but, for various reasons, that didn't work out. I may try again.
I enjoy crossword puzzles and jigsaw puzzles, but they're solitary pursuits.
Crosswords can be attempted on the early morning commute, though, or they fill in those unanticipated "sorry your journey has just been royally screwed" moments.
I recently went through a phase of "Spot the Difference" puzzles which was good fun. There's a site that does this with famous paintings, and a Sherlock Holmes one which insults you a la Cumberbatch when you get your scores.
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I read somewhere that the way to stave off dementia is not doing crosswords, if you have always done crosswords ...
Noooooo!
I've been doing cryptic crosswords since I was in my teens; my mum started doing the Glasgow Herald ones, and I discovered that I'm good at solving anagrams*, which helps no end**.
Then D. and I started doing the Times and Daily Telegraph crosswords and became completely hooked. When we moved here and couldn't get Proper Newspapers™ we subscribed to them on the web, and then discovered that the Grauniad one is free (and usually a bit more challenging). The death a year or two ago of "Araucaria" was a sad loss.
I enjoy Sudoku, but anything beyond what the Telegraph calls "moderate" is likely to be beyond me.
* My old German teacher said that people whose left eye was dominant (which mine is) were naturally better at doing anagrams. I don't remember her offering a reason.
** A trick from another former teacher: if you're solving an anagram, write the letters out in a circle, with an "E" (if there is one) in the middle.
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Baptist Trainfan
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It's interesting: my wife (who is dyslexic) is very good at those circular word-search-thingies, much better than I am. She's quite good at simple crosswords but gets stuck because she spells words wrongly.
I'm better at crosswords (but can't usually do cryptic ones although I feel I should be able to), however I'm a whizz at Sudoku which my wife can't do at all because it involves numbers (even though there's no maths involved).
Our favourite Proper Newspaper just closed and it's not the same on the Web. But we buy "i" each day which we think is pretty good.
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