OK friends, please put me out of my misery: 17a How a man deprived of musical entertainment would feel? (12) ?I?????E?T?? 21a Documentary system in which private soldiers are included (4) ?I?E - is...
There is a bloke on the radio at the moment on Tonight R4 saying that people may sustain severe hearing loss from the sheer volume of vuvuzela-honking during the tournament. Discuss.
I'm out at a committee meeting at 7 so to save time, I bought a doner kebab on the way home, opened it up, left it on the sofa while I switched on AB to see what's going on.... little toad has nicked...
Has anyone had any luck with growing avocado plants from the stones inside? I made avocado smoothies for breakfast this morning, and it seems a shame to throw away these healthy-looking stones!
I see from the headlines that Catherine Zeta Jones has been awarded a CBE, and Vicki Michelle (I vill say zis only wernce) an MBE. The Help for Heroes founders have also been recognised - good. Brian...
Help please - more blanks in the brain this week: 1a Looking for scraps? (11) ???L?G?RING 15A Returns and surrenders (6) ?I?L?S 18a Put in again (2-5) RE-E???T 2d Don't let people see there's...
Rover - his daily tablet, gobbled off the worktop, then a pouch of Felix Grilled Duck No. 1 Son - pouch of Felix Grilled Beef Black Spot - pounch of Felix Grilled Tuna Applaws biscuits on the side if...
A few I just can't fathom today: 10 a A job for the summer (8) ?D?I?I?N 18a It plays without music (8) ??U???I? 13d Impressions left by the dead (7) E???C?S 15d The giants inside thought it answered...
An American photographer on holiday was inside a church in Blackburn taking photographs when he noticed a golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read '£10,000 per call'. The...
Always a good sign of spring, and summer on the way! I was just watering in the garden and Was delighted to hear their familiar racket overhead, high in the sky - only a couple as yet., we had about...