At The Fieldhouse pub last night, Andrew, Chris, Matt (Igloo) and I came joint 3rd in the quiz. One round was a non-standard picture round. The special occasion this week was Dingbats. We got most of them, including the special reference to Bill Bryson (Thank you Naomi for getting me in to his books - I'm going to see one of his lectures in Lowestoft at the start of December).

The Bill Bryson one is as follows:



The following four others dingbats were ones we were unable to fathom but are, as the quiz master assured us, very obvious when you know the answer.











On the crossword note, I was listening to Radio 2 on the way back from Overclockers UK up in Stoke-on-Trent today. They had the Daily Telegraph's (now ex) crossword editor on. She retired today after 30 years working for the paper. The presenter asked for her favourite crossword clue and I present it to you here as another challenge:



No prizes for providing any of the answers because I'm sure you can find the them in an instant using Google, but having said that.... Don't cheat and try them for real... Respect to the first reply who gets them right.