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GP Quiz Answers

1st January 2025 Always Worth Saying 2186 Comments

Original questions without answers can be found here All questions 1 mark each, unless otherwise indicated. Bonus Points where indicated. If Puffins prefer, they can download and print out the questions and answers by clicking [more…]

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Endeavour’s Mega Christmas Trivia Quiz

26th December 2024 Going Postal 3850 Comments

No using the internet… All questions 1 mark each, unless otherwise indicated. Bonus Points available where indicated. Self-marking – answers to follow when SB posts them. If Puffins prefer, they can download and printout the [more…]

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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

25th December 2024 OldTrout 2239 Comments

Painted in about 1470/75, it is in the National Gallery. In memory of Caroline Catherine McNicholas 2nd October 1957 – 3rd January 2022   OldTrout  

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Silent Night (Stille-Nacht-Kapelle)

24th December 2024 OldTrout 2016 Comments

The Silent Night Chapel (Stille-Nacht-Kapelle) is located in the town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in the Austrian province of Salzburg, and is a monument to the Christmas carol Silent Night and its librettist, Joseph Mohr [more…]

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The Peninsula Hotel

24th December 2024 Going Postal 2310 Comments

Just a few hotels in the world are known to almost everyone – Raffles in Singapore, Reid’s Palace in Madeira, The Dorchester in London, Waldorf Astoria in New York spring easily to mind. Add to [more…]

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Christmas Past

21st December 2024 Always Worth Saying 2294 Comments

If you think I can remember 1924, you’re wrong. One relies upon our friends at the British Newspaper Archive. Ten decades ago some newspapers did publish on Christmas Day. The Sutton & Epsom Advertiser was [more…]

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Caribbean Christmas 2023/24, Part Two

24th January 2024 Going Postal 2054 Comments

Day 1 – 22nd December, Gatwick to Bridgetown Barbados My alarm woke me at 05:00. In no rush to get up, I lay there for 15 minutes before struggling out of bed. I showered and [more…]

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Caribbean Christmas 2023/24, Part One

17th January 2024 Going Postal 2240 Comments

This year I’m only off for two weeks, but as I’m flying to pick up the ship in Barbados, so it is a full two weeks in the sun. As a single passenger I must [more…]

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Merry Christmas, Sergeant Edge

7th January 2024 Blown Periphery 1537 Comments

Edge knew that he was coming down with something. His head felt muggy and the back of his throat and soft palate felt enlarged and spongy. He had been unable to clear his left ear, [more…]

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