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* 50 Things To Do Before You’re 12
* The Royal Oak Quiz
* AGM XLI
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50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU’RE 12
Here are the final ten things that the National Trust reckons everyone should have done before their 12th birthday. These are grouped under ‘Explorer’...
1 Plant it, grow it, eat it
2 Go swimming in the sea
3 Build a raft
4 Go bird watching
5 Find your way with a map and compass
6 Try rock climbing
7 Cook on a campfire
8 Learn to ride a horse
9 Find a geocache
10 Canoe down a river
My score’s average with this group; I haven’t tried 3, 5, 9 or 10 - I don’t really know what a ‘geocache’ actually is but, as soon as I do, I intend to go out and find one.
This whole exercise has, though, made me feel very inadequate...
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THE ROYAL OAK QUIZ 3: ANSWERS
Here are the answers to the Royal Oak Quiz posted a few days ago.
1 Carrie
2 Albert Einstein
3 Flake
4 He’s the new Italian PM
5 Her broomstick
6 Sir Lancelot
7 Casino Royale
8 Golf ball detectors
9 Orange (Saffron)
10 Bucket
11 Cummerbund
12 Repetitive Strain Injury
13 Clove
14 Pennywise
15 The Feathers
16 Skye
17 Dog
18 Neptune
19 Alexander Armstrong
20 £80 Million
21 A golden ball
22 A bag of gold coins
23 Porridge
24 The birds ate them
25 Her voice
26 Family Guy
27 Auf Weidersehen Pet
28 Only Fools & Horses
29 The Big Bang Theory
30 Dukes of Hazzard
The Tie-Breaker answer is 1894.
The Snowball answer is 732.
How well did you do? I got a measly 9.
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AGM XLI
Let’s see now...
Vivienne can make it on 29 or 31 May.
Hildie can do 25 to 31 May and 1 to 6 June, except that Birkheads is closed on three of those days.
Dave Shannon can do 31 May to June 10, except that Birkheads is closed on three of those days, too.
So Hildie seems to be right. We’re kind of homing in on 31 May, aren’t we?
Er...
No, we’re not.
I can’t go that day...
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This posting is adorned with three more pictures from my collection of arty postcards. I’m honestly beginning to wonder what they are saying about me...
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CONTACT ME
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8 comments:
Most disappointed - I went into town yesterday morning and you weren't sitting outside Thorntons drinking coffee with someone!
I think you should use the artworks for caption competitions. For example the top one could read "Keep shovelling Paul no-one will know it was us burying Sweeney in these habits"
I have just seen your update on the AGM ......
ummmm ...
the best laid plans of
mice and men ....
Caption for third pic:
Thanks to the wardrobe mistress Paul's foray in pantomime dame playing was not the success it could have been.
And for the middle picture:
"I've told you before Adrian, you've got to get dressed before you can take the dog for a walk."
Love your captions, Brenda. What can you come up with for the Lady of Shalott painting at the top of 454?
"As the boys weighted bodies were swallowed up by the waters of the North Tyne La Sweeney realised she was going to miss the Geordie Jet sketches"
Call the apostrophe police! It should be "boys'". I shall be hounded out of the copy checkers' club.
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