nourishing obscurity

From Chessalee and Chuckles: the World Chess Championships: After four games of the World Chess Championship match in Moscow, which began on Friday, Viswanathan Anand, the titleholder, and his challenger, Boris Gelfand, have been unable to make a dent in each other. All four games have been draws, and there has been little drama, as [...]

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Quiz 1 The lady shown on this headstone was portrayed in a film, name the film. 2 Name the actress who played. 3 What was the name of the area known as that they lived in.

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Questions 1 Name of this stately home and which county is it in. 2 The name of the man who had this place built and where did his money come from. 3 Another stately home can be seen from the grounds, name the property and the county it’s in.

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07:57 Friday: This was in the nature of an experiment. Polldaddy doesn’t work properly at this site – it won’t embed in the sidebar, it won’t show comments, of which there are three and its poll appearance size won’t embed as it’s clicked on to do. It’s not counting votes at its site but is [...]

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Bear with the opening words – it starts soon enough:

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Macheath: while the allegedly boracic* Wapping-based Baroness will return after the Queen’s Speech in May Woodsy: Google rate the Euro an “unsupported currency”. Martin Kelly: Seeing both Rangers Football Club and the Scottish National Party in such turmoil could almost make one think we are seeing could be called a ‘Scottish Spring’; like the Arab [...]

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I came across this old photo, I think it gives a whole new thrust to the wimmin /bicycle combination:

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Q: What do you get if you cross The Queen and Prince Philip? A: Killed in a tunnel.

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This little boy is the son of seven times World Professional Sprint Champion Antonio Maspes, he is standing at the bottom of the banking of the most iconic velodrome in the world, it was host to ten new world attempts at one event all successful between 1935-1986, it is also a renowned rock venue having [...]

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Questions 1 There was a famous race for seaplanes between the wars, name the race. 2 Name the aircraft.

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For light relief, some eggs and wine -

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Yes, Sam, when you wrote that women hate you because you’re beautiful, I knew just what you meant.  After all, here’s my song: Responsibility sits so hard on my shoulder – like a good wine, I’m better as I get older. Susie Wong from Hong Kong commented today at the Mail but of course, as [...]

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