I used to post this link every weekend but I've not done so for ages. I still seem to achieving my regular score of 4 though. Anyone else fancy a go?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21066857...
January: The Times celebrates the new year by publishing the biggest, and hardest, cryptic crossword in its history. It appears on the newspaper's website at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve....
While there are a few individual posts on the subject, I can't see a thread suggesting names which were missing from the line-up last night. Here's a few that I think should have been considered:...
Last month I spotted the first 'Book now for Christmas' signs outside a restaurants in Diss. Last week I saw that a 99p shop in Ipswich had just filled a large area of the store with Christmas...
Well, several actually:
http://www.guardian.c...-abroad?newsfeed=true
(I just thought that it might interest some of the people who've been posting during the ceremony)...
If so, here are 10 easy(?) questions on the theme of alternative names: 1. What is acetylsalicylic acid better known as? 2. By what name is Gravelly Hill Interchange more usually known? 3. What was...
I've just turned on my radio in order to hear a play which starts at 1am, only to find that it will be starting at the OTHER 1am, in an hour's time. All very confusing! So what will everyone else be...
(a) engrossed in Saturday night TV ; (b) suicidal through watching Saturday night TV ; (c) down the pub ; (d) reliving their youth in a night club ; (e) embracing a youth in a night club ; or (f)...
A couple of Sundays back I found myself in the Cornucopia pub in Southend, where I was greatly impressed by the band ("Not Dead Yet"). I've just found out that someone there had a video...
. . . when I only scored 2 out of 7
. . . but I've done a bit better this week (4/7).
Anyone else fancy a go?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15110532...
. . . get Hubby and the kids out of the house in the morning.
This is from one of my favourite films ('Taare Zameen Par'). It shows that Mums have the same daily struggles all over the world!...
I've not tried the weekly BBC news quiz for a while but I thought that I'd have another go. After getting the first three questions wrong, I thought that I was destined to score zero but I got the...
