This week I mostly been wearing...
So they smell a bit after a few days...
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Thursday, 23 December 2010
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Araucaria
The greatest of all crossword compilers, who is 90 years old soon, so we'd best enjoy him while we can.
I settled down with his Christmas Prize double crossword yesterday, and half an hour later I had just about managed to make sense of the rules. Three hours later I'd even solved some of them. Which made up for the lack of sport on TV, as I huddled round the log-burning stove, wishing I had some wood to put in it. The Crossword should see me through to about February at this rate.
Simon Hoggart shares his favourite Araucaria clue - a most incredible anagram:
"O hark the herald angels sing the boy's descent which lifted up the world." (5,9,7,5,6,2,5,3,6,2,3,6).
I like monkey-puzzle trees also.
I settled down with his Christmas Prize double crossword yesterday, and half an hour later I had just about managed to make sense of the rules. Three hours later I'd even solved some of them. Which made up for the lack of sport on TV, as I huddled round the log-burning stove, wishing I had some wood to put in it. The Crossword should see me through to about February at this rate.
Simon Hoggart shares his favourite Araucaria clue - a most incredible anagram:
"O hark the herald angels sing the boy's descent which lifted up the world." (5,9,7,5,6,2,5,3,6,2,3,6).
I like monkey-puzzle trees also.
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Chocolate-covered Cocoa Beans
Dark chocolate for preference, a bitterness probably only appreciated by older palates, perfect with rioja or a late bottled vintage port, and if you're not careful, longer-lasting than a handful of pro plus...
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Tuesday, 7 December 2010
This morning's frost
Which is extraordinary. . This batch of snow hasn't been as pretty as last winter's for some reason - lack of sun maybe - but this morning's frost has more than made up for it. I realise I've been a city boy most my life, but I can't remember seeing anything like it before.
The views over to Kemberton reservoir were of a whiteness I'd never seen in the landscape before. The sun was trying to break through the fog and the whole landscape was an unearthly colour. Every tree was covered , every branch and twig with an inch deep covering of frost on top of it. Whatever green pigment that remains, was seeping though underneath, giving the trees an off-silver greenish glow. Stand alone oaks look like giant ice crystals. Even evergreeens have been consumed by the frost - there's thirty foot leylandi at the end of our road tucked up in it from head to toe.
I plainly don't have the words to describe this very well. If we're lucky the Wenlock Edge country diarist will have been out today and will treat us to his rendition shortly....
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The views over to Kemberton reservoir were of a whiteness I'd never seen in the landscape before. The sun was trying to break through the fog and the whole landscape was an unearthly colour. Every tree was covered , every branch and twig with an inch deep covering of frost on top of it. Whatever green pigment that remains, was seeping though underneath, giving the trees an off-silver greenish glow. Stand alone oaks look like giant ice crystals. Even evergreeens have been consumed by the frost - there's thirty foot leylandi at the end of our road tucked up in it from head to toe.
I plainly don't have the words to describe this very well. If we're lucky the Wenlock Edge country diarist will have been out today and will treat us to his rendition shortly....
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