We are staying on a camp site near Hayle in Cornwall and every night flocks of geese fly over at about this time every night. They go in the same direction at around 7.30-8.00pm and fly in formation,...
What do you think of Jean-Claude Juncker who, as a raging Federalist, took over the Presidency of the EU earlier this year and Rubbished the UK, then was disdainful of our choice of the next UK...
I remember a few years ago watching a documentary about how much more money goes from the Treasury to Scotland per capita than England and that this was called The Barnett formula. Mr Barnett was...
This is a long shot but I have done this puzzle and the answer is the one left over. However I have two number left over and can't find either of them. Has anyone done this puzzle? The two numbers I...
In a previous thread by Mikey, he made two statements. One was "Labour are popular all over Britain" and the other was "Labour which is setting the agenda for fairness,". The other day I read, and I...
Really stuck on this weeks 1a Giving notice of (9) ??P?????? 10a People carving letters (9) ????A?E?? 1d Former US President (7,7) ????H?? ?I???L? Sorry so few letters but any help may get me going on...
Three left. Help pls 32d Woody Allen film starring Hugh Jackman and Ian McShane (5) S?O?P 39a Second son of Jacob and Zilpah (5) A?H?R 36a The first name of the protagonist in Gullivers Travels ((6)...
I find it Mind boggling that Newsnight should have Jack Dromey commenting on rights of these children who had been abused in Rotherham and Pontificating about the failures of the Council, Police and...
Stuck on two. 1d subordinate event or in ident (8) S?D?N?O?
2d unchanging (8) C?N?L?NT
Both based on 1d Temporal (8) which I have down as 'secular'
Thanks...
32a Government report, the first step in a possible change of legislation (5,5) ???E? PAPER 33d ............ island, formal name of the state in 24 (5) ??O?E 16a Wife of Odysseus in Homers odyssey (8)...
Stuck on a couple and probably have some letters wrong.
13d Really scary (10) T?R???P?N?
20a Inflict (punishment) (10) ?????I???R
18d issuing a publication (7) ????T?O?
Any help appreciated!...
I like to hear a success story. Despite all the negative publicity about Free Schools or Academies, here is a story where the number of places at Oxbridge from an East End Free School rivalled Eton....
Brick trick - where, with. Lies you build the wall by removing one letter in the last word till there are three then adding another till there are 7 again. I usually don't have a problem with this but...