Could anyone please give the passwords on yesterday's Daily Telegraph (Saturday Sept. 5th) that go with tomorrow's Monday Herculis crossword.? I didn't receive my copy owing to some "issues" at some...
A few years ago I took a pleasure cruise on the river Nile through the capital Cairo. In this surprisingly beautiful city from the river we steamed though the heart of it past magnificent old...
A lady of means has told me that she gained the nickname "camel" when a young girl at boarding school and has challenged me to attempt to work just why she should have become so known. I realise this...
I have just finished reading "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", a collection of short story pastiches collected and introduced by Richard Lancelyn Green and published by Penguin in 1985. In...
I am experiencing a most irritable symptom on my television recordings. When I record a programme, especially sports and snooker is the worst culprit it often occurs that although setting for the...
Can anyone give a word that describes a person who takes delight in not knowing something that most people would know. e.g. First person, "I hear Elvis Presley has died". Second person, "Never heard...
Help please with the Herculis link phrases this week:
I have Brown sauce, Gooseberry and cream cheese but is the fourth one Blue China or China blue?...
Can anyone help me with the Herculis link words? There seems to be permutations I can't figure out. I keep finishing up with "wood" and "notes" and despite my searches I can't seem to link them to...
Is it protocol when laying a memorial wreath at a grave, say at Christmas, to include a written note with a family message or is it frowned upon as rather non-U? I wish to place a wreath at my uncle's...
Morning all, can anyone help me find old-fashioned "Regency" type Christmas cards with typically an old English Inn scene with young Bucks just back from the hunt with wet dogs, tankards of ale, a...
Where can I buy old-fashioned hard, brittle butterscotch? I used to be able to obtain it in breakaway slabs and Parkinson's of Doncaster, the sweet people, used to make it individually wrapped and...
Can anyone give me the name of the William book and/or the title of the story where William pretends there's a curse on a patch of burnt grass and after successfully enticing his arch enemy Hubert...