Cheesy

Happy to report that I feel less unwell than was the case yesterday. Unfortunately Mr L now feels distinctly under par. It’s the season, I suppose. Yesterday we were talking about cheese. There were plans afoot for a meal of bread and cheese later. That is exactly what happened. We selected the Double Gloucester and the …

Not very clever

I woke up feeling a little odd this morning and was all off-balance. Not dizzy, as in woozy and head whirling, but falling over and just not able to stand up straight. It soon cleared after I had dressed, though came back again when I was making my morning coffee and then a third time when getting …

Well?

If all went well, you should be reading this on our zippy personal server. Are we going like the clappers now? Do let me know if things are not as they should be – from our end all is looking fine but you may well discover broken links and missing images we  are not aware …

Mugwump

It is seriously disappointing that after having worked so hard recently to pull myself out of the doldrums, I find myself here once more with a fit of Advanced Mugwump. My knitting lies disregarded and I could scarce galvanise myself into producing lunch, which was only a simple reheating job. I guess it is difficult to …

Eggs not hatched

We were very wrong in expecting Part 5 of the GCHQ puzzle to have two questions, followed by a sixth part. In fact, Part 5 is the final part but consists of a whopping eleven puzzles, and they are more challenging than those that went before. These 11 are the answers that have to be …

The Game is On

Just when we thought that we were in a puzzle drought until next Spring, the BBC alerted us on Thursday to this little treat from the Director of GCHQ. “Game on,” we thought. Alas, we could not get the GCHQ server to play with us. That was OK, we have until 31st January to solve it. …