Fao - The Km Players

[seekeerz]

Here are today's shaded clues for you -

26d ------- lights; right to receive daylight [7]

31d Songbird with melancholy call during autumn and winter [6]

49d Area for playing cricket [5]

51d Don't -----; catch phrase from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [5]

[seekeerz]

** correction - 31d has [5] letters **

[nungate]

Morning Seekeerz how are you? Did you have any trouble posting? There's a numpty about -> if youlook to the right.
Cupid was just asking if you'd been able to post

[seekeerz]

morning nungate, yes I saw the clown when I logged in, but didn't have any trouble posting

I see all the efforts to drown him out, not getting the message, is he !!

[Mass_Hysteria]

It seems to be automatic seekerz, let the ED/mods sort it out

[nungate]

No, it's probably some sort of automated thingy (I really talk "technical" don't I?)
I've usually logged off by this time but I've been waiting for my other half to arrive home from work, as all flights in the country have been hit by delays today and everything was running late. But he's home now and I'll have to think about closing down now. By the way I do love your koala avatar, though my favourite Aussie animal has to be a wombat, I just love them, heaven knows why.

[seekeerz]

looks that way, doesn't it, pretty mindless to boot, so long as it's not keeping anyone else out - good luck to you all, cheers seeks

[seekeerz]

must admit the wombat is my favourite too, nungate, they're just gorgeous, also the echidna, our version of a hedgehog, very cute

[nungate]

My daughter has a pen friend in Australia, and she sent me a really small cuddly toy of a wombat, he sits on the sofa with me every day - I call him Willie Wombat, after a character on a kids show I used to watch when I was a kid - there were two koalas called Tingha and Tucker, and Willie the Wombat and "Auntie Jean" as the human, the rest were puppets! That must be about 40 years ago or more - sheesh I must be getting old! Well the hot chocolate has just been delivered by my other half so I shall say good night. Good luck with the quiz

[cupid04]

when my brother in law was off sick years ago, he watched loads of daytime telly including:-Country practice. He liked it for the wombat and when he finally went back to work my sister in law had to record it for him.

[cupid04]

ancient.

robin?

pitch

panic

[nungate]

My mum was a fiend for those Aussie soaps too, I called A Counrty Practice "Vets and Doctors" the wombat's name was Fatso - sorry I have a brain that retains trivia. I love wombats, oh and there are other wee marsupials I think they're called Clockers or something like that they are sweet too - I saw them on Billy Conolly's programme on Australia

[seekeerz]

I'll have to check for that one, nungate - I think they were on Rottnest Island on the Billy Connolly programme, but their name escapes me at the moment

we have quite a few 'little cuddlies' but the one they're making a fuss about 'the bilby' is a horrid little thing we could well do without - oh well, no accounting for taste

[seekeerz]

sorry, cupid - yes they are correct - I've never heard of 'Ancient Lights until today - not problem we have much here !!

[Spoonboy]

Sorry Cupid, but I would have said 49d was green, as cricket is played on a green.

Hi all.

[seekeerz]

Morning Spoonboy - any ideas always welcome

[seekeerz]

You were very close, nungate - they are quokkas and on the Island they are very tame, about the size of a cat

[nungate]

I knew they were something like that, I got the sound of them right at least.
The programme with Billy Connolly was called Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia it was really enjoyable, funny and informative. You do have lot wildlife that isn't so cuddly though