Sunday Express Skeleton 22Nd December...
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Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1110 -- Joined Forces By Ifor
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A huge amount going on, but a relatively gentle solve despite that. I found some of the clues fairly generous, so was able to work out one of the replacements and then work backwards from there to understand the theme. Nevertheless, a very clever puzzle and I enjoyed the solve, so thank you Ifor!
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Hello devadolly,
It has been inordinately rainy here, with the occasional hail storm. I keep checking between my toes to make sure I am not developing webbed feet. Several days have been quite windy, with gusting noises coming down the chimney and trees clattering, one 30ft ash, with a bifurcated trunk gave up and decided it was too much, then decided to lie down. I wish we had a log burner! A chainsaw would also be useful! Living halfway up the east side of the South Downs means we escape the worst of any weather arriving from the West, it also means flooding is impossible, the water just rushes past us. Actually we almost have our own "microclimate" throughout the whole year. If we were to flood, the town just south of us would not exist and we would be on an island! Trains to and from London have been disrupted, but nothing too serious. Certainly we are faring well compared to the South West and the Thames corridor. Today has been glorious, sunny all day and temperatures around 10°C, which is just as well as the boiler did not fire up this morning, all fixed now.
How is the weather affecting you devadolly?
My main preoccupation recently has been that we are moving our Office and Recording Studio, plus we received a Lottery Grant to update our recording hardware and software. We have gone from standard PC and ADOBE Audition, to iMac and Logic Pro! We, probably foolishly, decided to move premises and IT at the same time! The physical move has been smoother than the IT change! We will get there eventually, fortunately we have a mobile studio, so our sevice to the local Visually Impaired has not been interrupted, despite reduced audio quality, which we regret!
It has been inordinately rainy here, with the occasional hail storm. I keep checking between my toes to make sure I am not developing webbed feet. Several days have been quite windy, with gusting noises coming down the chimney and trees clattering, one 30ft ash, with a bifurcated trunk gave up and decided it was too much, then decided to lie down. I wish we had a log burner! A chainsaw would also be useful! Living halfway up the east side of the South Downs means we escape the worst of any weather arriving from the West, it also means flooding is impossible, the water just rushes past us. Actually we almost have our own "microclimate" throughout the whole year. If we were to flood, the town just south of us would not exist and we would be on an island! Trains to and from London have been disrupted, but nothing too serious. Certainly we are faring well compared to the South West and the Thames corridor. Today has been glorious, sunny all day and temperatures around 10°C, which is just as well as the boiler did not fire up this morning, all fixed now.
How is the weather affecting you devadolly?
My main preoccupation recently has been that we are moving our Office and Recording Studio, plus we received a Lottery Grant to update our recording hardware and software. We have gone from standard PC and ADOBE Audition, to iMac and Logic Pro! We, probably foolishly, decided to move premises and IT at the same time! The physical move has been smoother than the IT change! We will get there eventually, fortunately we have a mobile studio, so our sevice to the local Visually Impaired has not been interrupted, despite reduced audio quality, which we regret!
drb, I really don't envy you your extreme weather, you must all be so thoroughly sick of freezing.
Like you DocHH we have a micro-climate here, it can be raining 3 miles down the road and not here & vice-versa. Because we are slap bang in between the river estuary and the bay, we rarely get extreme cold, frosts tend to be light and if we have snow, someone not far away has about 3 feet. We are wet and soggy but usually very mild. This year we have been very lucky unlike the poor people in the SW, altho' our fields are very wet and we have to be very careful where we go with the tractors, we are not flooded, we are on wet land and we and our neighbours took over the dredging of our big dykes and culverts when the EA decided not to bother, are we glad we did. Nor has the win d done too much damage, trashed the potato greenhouse and removed part of the roof to the old shippon we use as a hen cabin + a few tiles off the big barn. Our neighbour was not so lucky and has lost 45 panels from his big silo barn roof.
Suppose i had better give Mr Ifor another go after lunch!
Like you DocHH we have a micro-climate here, it can be raining 3 miles down the road and not here & vice-versa. Because we are slap bang in between the river estuary and the bay, we rarely get extreme cold, frosts tend to be light and if we have snow, someone not far away has about 3 feet. We are wet and soggy but usually very mild. This year we have been very lucky unlike the poor people in the SW, altho' our fields are very wet and we have to be very careful where we go with the tractors, we are not flooded, we are on wet land and we and our neighbours took over the dredging of our big dykes and culverts when the EA decided not to bother, are we glad we did. Nor has the win d done too much damage, trashed the potato greenhouse and removed part of the roof to the old shippon we use as a hen cabin + a few tiles off the big barn. Our neighbour was not so lucky and has lost 45 panels from his big silo barn roof.
Suppose i had better give Mr Ifor another go after lunch!
If you email the EV Editor at [email protected], I'm sure he'll be able to send you one. Excellent puzzle this week, by the way - a lot easier than Ifor's recent Phenytoins EV.
Oh dear, after jim360's reply to my query, I'm trying to follow the advice given in the third phrase whilst wondering if the female version of the first applies to me. I did have the 15 letter 4 word phrase for under the puzzle, no problem. My problem was in the number of cells to apply it to, as the phrase is in the singular. I guess I'm just being too pedantic.
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