Where Was I

[mahler28]

Sunday Times Feb 11th. Where was I

[Tilly2]

Why do you keep asking the same question, Mahler?

[Tilly2]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1593776.html

[Tilly2]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Question1593774.html

[fiction-factory]

I'm sure mahler must be mistaking the Question Box for the Search Box.
You can look at your profile to find details of all the answers you've had on previous threads- or you can subscribe to your own questions.

[Tilly2]

I think you're being very kind, FF.

[fiction-factory]

I'm not trying to be I don't think, Tilly. Surely someone would ask in a more polite way if they were asking for help from real people. These read like search box entries to me.

[Tilly2]

Maybe if Mahler responded to this post, you could help him, FF.

[mahler28]

I can't get into peoples answers to my question

[fiction-factory]

I'm not sure what you mean as you must have been able to read these replies on this thread.

[Tilly2]

What device are you using, Mahler?

[fiction-factory]

Maybe you can't open links on your device.
Here are some replies:
There are quite a few of us here on AB who have enjoyed this puzzle for many years and often discuss the week's offering without giving away the answers.
There are other places on the internet that give the answers if that's all you want. 17:22 Sun 11th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Flonska Interesting offering, I thought this week, especially studying the detail in the OS Map of the area. I had also wondered how long it would be before the royal "diphthong" would be trotted out again. Perhaps too, Tilly may have enjoyed reading of the family connection that might be somewhat "close to home" as it were? 09:03 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Tilly2 Hi Flonska. Could you give me the link please? :-) 09:08 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Flonska Here it is Tilly . . .

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/travel/where-was-i/ 10:15 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image goodgoalie Morning, F. Yes, quite tricky this week, and took me a fair old time to come up with the actual name of the trackway. Have you found that it has a few different spellings? Hope I have chosen the correct one - have already entered! 11:31 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Flonska Good Morning GG. My entry was submitted this morning too.

As well as different 'spellings' there are some a.k.a. variations.

So, it will be a case of "fingers crossed" for the right answer as well as picking the name from the hat (assuming . . . he still uses one)? 12:01 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image goodgoalie For the trackway, I've put three words, each of one syllable.... 12:16 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Flonska That sounds o.k. to me, GG - bon chance! 13:28 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image goodgoalie Thanks, F. Did you go for I or Y in the third word? I chose Y 13:30 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Etch Always annoying when there are alternative spellings for one of the required answers!

GG, yesterday, whilst searching for the competition website (away from home and couldn't remember the URL) I came across the following article by Chris Fautley:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/for-the-1-000th-time-wherewasi-xmr2x29dd
I haven't registered to read the full article, but what is visible without doing so is interesting: he has been setting the puzzle since 1998, and my paper cutting (19 May 1996) is from the "first incarnation" of Where Was I?, before his involvement 14:01 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Flonska "Y" . . . yes I did!

14:15 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Flonska Who knows Etch, maybe he entered the comp - won a prize and got smitten with the idea? Can't tell from the map where he is but unlike "geographically challenged friend" who accompanies him from time to time, it does at least appear to be the right way up! 14:25 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Etch Ooh, I do like a challenge, F - where is he, or at least which part of the UK does the map show? I'm pretty certain it's the southern part of The Rhins (the setting for WWI? on 1 Oct 2017) with the Mull of Galloway at the top, of course, because of how the OS Landranger maps are folded: his index finger is pointing towards Clanyard Bay and his middle finger is in Port Nessock (or Port Logan) Bay

Is the scarf an attempt to remain icognito, or is it to guard against the terrible British weather that he often has to deal with? :-) 15:13 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Flonska Can't fault that at all . . . Etch - 6.0 for technical merit and 6.0 for artistic impression! (at present - am watching bits of the figure skating).

It always surprises me how many people I know who don't orientate a map to the direction being travelled in order to navigate.

I think the scarf is probably a bit of both you suggest - not so the hat - well, not like Paddy Burt's Pic which used to appear in the "Room Service" features in the Telegraph.

15:50 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Tilly2 Thanks, Flonska.

My ancient trackway has only two words in the name. :-( 16:47 Mon 12th Feb 2018
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[fiction-factory]

I have submitted mine. :-) 17:49 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image goodgoalie Sorry all, the Y is, of course, in the SECOND word! Four letters 23:09 Mon 12th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Flonska Tilly - good for you - did you get the "local . . . ish" connection?

GG - phew . . . so relieved we are still in accord - I was beginning to think I had dropped a right clanger! 16:54 Tue 13th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Tilly2 I did get the connection, Flonska. Woburn, I think. 09:56 Wed 14th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Flonska As you posted elsewhere that you lived in the County, Tilly, and although I was not sure how near it is, I thought it might, at least, amuse? 10:09 Wed 14th Feb 2018
Avatar Image Tilly2 It did amuse me, Flonska. Thank you for pointing it out to me. 11:55 Wed 14th Feb 2018

[Tilly2]

That should do it FF. :-)