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Lady | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:43 |
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Dee a pilliwink was used to crush fingers |
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Angela now in Wilts (not North Devon) | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:40 |
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Thanks Dee :-)) Angela |
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Dee the Bibliomaniac | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:39 |
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Hi Angela, it is wine or oil ;-)) we seem to have them all now, thanks for taking part answers 1 Instruments of torture for crushing fingers 2 Princess Margaret 3 Sculptor 4 Below – long protective garters 5 Body snatchers 6 It was the Interregnum – the time of Oliver and Richard Cromwell 7 Census dates 8 17th 9 Farthing 10 Charles Darwin 11 A small rigged ship for conveying passengers and goods along a coast 12 Winston Churchill 13 Washing linen 14 Oil or wine 15 Landscape gardeners |
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Lady | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:39 |
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14/ Amphora is short for Aroma so Perfume would have been put in |
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Dee the Bibliomaniac | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:37 |
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I've learnt something this evening Lady L, I hadn't realised it was a place, it is also a small ship for carrying passengers and goods, we had a lot in Kent in the old days Dee x |
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Angela now in Wilts (not North Devon) | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:35 |
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14 Wine (should've known that one!!) |
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Lady | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:35 |
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12/ Churchill |
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Lady | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:34 |
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11/ it is the largest of the Awkney Islands (sp) |
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Lady | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:34 |
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15/ they were landscape gardeners |
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Lady | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:32 |
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10/ Charles Darwin |
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Dee the Bibliomaniac | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:32 |
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Hadn't realised that was the motto Twizzle, my Dad was in tanks in the war We seem to have answers to all except 11 and 14 ;-)) |
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Lady | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:31 |
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A Lye can be a solution of caustic or something to measure land? |
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Lady | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:31 |
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9/ I will guess the 10 shilling note???? |
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Dee the Bibliomaniac | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:30 |
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Sorry, folks, my puter went down ;-(( Welcome everbody ;-)) Anybody know what part of the body was tortured in a pilliwinkle? ;-)) |
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Julie | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:29 |
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6: there wasn't one it was Oliver then Richard Cromwell |
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Lady | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:29 |
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8/ 14th and 15th century |
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Saints Alive | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:28 |
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Methinks Dee has done a runner ;-)))))) Ah well time for grub Twizzle, thanks for the quiz Dee |
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Lady | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:27 |
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7/ census records |
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Angela now in Wilts (not North Devon) | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:26 |
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14 Smelling salts?? 10 Charles Darwin |
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Lady | Report | 24 Jul 2007 19:25 |
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6/ george 3rd |
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