Where Was I? 18/3

[goodgoalie]

A bit of a head-scratcher, this one. No papers (again) today because of the snow, so glad to get the coffee on and tackle the treasure hunt. I think I've got all the letters, but much staring and much coffee have not come up with the earthwork yet. I'll get back to you.....

[zebo]

Ditto, the Abbey took me ages though!

[goodgoalie]

Does your abbey, like mine, have 6 letters? I fear I've gone hugely wrong somewhere, as can find not a hint of an earthwork with 2 words and 14 letters.

[zebo]

I've got a 6 letter abbey but I'm not sure it's right, it's a bit more than 12 miles away but as the crow flies might not be!! I can't find anything about any specifically named earthworks, hopefully we might get a bit of local knowledge later!!

[Flonska]

The words on the final envelope mentioned in the piece - "Hello Campers" - should help you to find the name and location of the earthwork.

[Tilly2]

I can't name the first town, author

[Tilly2]

Hi-de-Hi!

[Flonska]

Tilly . . . in some of Mr Fautley's puzzles, places are not always as described in other bios. This week is one of those occasions. If you have identified the author who wrote in an unexpected way, you will be able to discover where he lived. In this case, "home town" is a loose attribution.

[Tilly2]

Got it, Flonska. Discounted him because he was not English. :-)

[Flonska]

Hi-de-Hi is warm(ish) Tilly, but it is not connected with TV or a holiday one - this place is much, much older with an equally older description.

[Toorak]

Just got it - thanks flonska. I was a letter out: had gone for the wrong racketeer

[Flonska]

Well done Tilly . . . it is easy to associate a location with someone's 'birthplace' when described in those terms. (One of the puzzler's traits)! - as is often the distance given between places. On the map, I made the Abbey nearer to 15 miles driving distance from the PM' s home - not 12.

[Flonska]

Having stayed in to to solve the puzzle, I notice that, according to the prize, the winner can share the place with 13 others - but the ST is only paying for the cost of one jam jar with 4 occupants to go across La Manche!

[Flonska]

Oops! s/be ^Having stayed in to solve the puzzle^

[goodgoalie]

Having just been for a 7-mile walk (no papers in the next village, either, though hardly any snow to speak of), I went through this again and saw I'd written a G instead of an A, so got it now. D'oh!

[Flonska]

I started off with the wrong letters. I read it that they came from the PM's name - not his home - and of course, in reference to the clue he wasn't PM then, either. Just as well I had most of the day to think it through!

[goodgoalie]

Ha ha, well it helped pass a dull, cold day! Shame I'm not at all interested in the holiday after all that effort.

[Tilly2]

Does the earthwork have a 'light' on it?

[Flonska]

Likewise GG - see ^^ @16:01 ^^

[goodgoalie]

Don't think so, Tills. If it were in a crossword it'd be (10, 4)

[Tilly2]

Not Ivinghoe Beacon then?