Fao - The Km Players

[seekeerz]

Here are today's shaded clues for you -

13a Forming avenues on country estates or growing in the wild, the hybrid tree linden whose wood was the favoured medium of sculptor Grinling Gibbons [4]

44a Slender mid-section of a wine glass, or a banana tree stalk from which several bunches or 'hands' grow [4]

57a Type of facility that manufactures items studied in numismatics [4]

5d Aromatic vegetable substance such as cinnamon, cloves or nutmeg [5]

[twix123]

Thanks Steff and good evening all.

13a. Lime

44a. Stem

57a. Mint

5d. Spice

[seekeerz]

good morning twix - very quiet here, thought I'd been abandoned :((

[tonyav]

Evening both, well done twix.

[tonyav]

Evening !
I'ts morning now.

[seekeerz]

certainly is, Tony ...time for breakfast for me !! see you all later xx

[tonyav]

See ya later, Steff. Enjoy your breakfast.

[twix123]

Hi Steff and Tony. I thought that I had taken too long thinking of the answers as Mamya is usually like greased lighting, but no sign of her yet!

I had just got back from my Friday Night virtual pub meeting with my usual drinking pals, courtesy of Zoom. One of our pals, who
sometimes joins us on Fridays, had an operation cancelled last month at the start of the crisis but was called in to our local general hospital to check his progress today and was subsequently kept in to have the operation this evening as an emergency.

[tonyav]

kept in to have the operation this evening as an emergency.

Wow, I hope things go well for him, twix.

[Mamyalynne]

Well done Twix and get well wishes to your drinking buddy too X

[twix123]

Thanks all. I hope to hear tomorrow that he's been released and is able to join us for a virtual pint (bladder problems haing restricted his alcohol input, although under doctor's orders to drink umpteen litres of water daily).

[Mamyalynne]

Oh yes, the sooner he can get out of there the better.