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Just come in from bramble and ivy wrestling for a cuppa - I was looking for a North Wales town that is only known by an English name! Conwy never crossed my mind <doh emoticon> as it's never called Conway. And, London concert halls, I only know the RAH so would have got hopelessly lost on the Circle Line Or even the Piccadilly Line! I think Norfy went before he saw Ammy's answer .... How goes your gardening Flay? I have some lovely aquilegias
Damn you, Flay... just catching up and was planning a cunning quip on reading Anna's post!! You're way ahead of me
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
please - was Barbican a particular thoroughbred or a generic name ?
I can't find any information
What do you mean by thoroughbred there, mercs?
Because it's called that (and the housing estate around it) as a result of being built on the site of the fortifications adjacent to the old Roman wall (hence the street London Wall nearby)... and
"A barbican, from medieval Latin barbecana, signifying the "outer fortification of a city or castle," with cognates in the Romance languages (perhaps deriving ultimately from Arabic or Persian cf. bab-khanah "gate-house" and "towered gateway"[1] or from the mediaeval English burgh-kenning[2])"
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Because it's called that (and the housing estate around it) as a result of being built on the site of the fortifications adjacent to the old Roman wall (hence the street London Wall nearby)... and
"A barbican, from medieval Latin barbecana, signifying the "outer fortification of a city or castle," with cognates in the Romance languages (perhaps deriving ultimately from Arabic or Persian cf. bab-khanah "gate-house" and "towered gateway"[1] or from the mediaeval English burgh-kenning[2])"
all very interesting but I don't see the connection to "a thoroughbred horse" which was the clue [I think] to Barbican in the original question
all very interesting but I don't see the connection to "a thoroughbred horse" which was the clue [I think] to Barbican in the original question
Ah! You mean you can remember the question??
(Sorry, been tuned out today)
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Just as well Flay got in first - you and your ocelot seem in a very frisky mood this afternoon!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
all very interesting but I don't see the connection to "a thoroughbred horse" which was the clue [I think] to Barbican in the original question
mercia, William Earl of Cadogan was Colonel of "Cadogan's Horse" (now the 5th Dragoon Guards). I don't know if this has anything to do with the answer but is this the horse in the original question?
mercia, William Earl of Cadogan was Colonel of "Cadogan's Horse" (now the 5th Dragoon Guards). I don't know if this has anything to do with the answer but is this the horse in the original question?
thanks - I think Cadogan was the Room 118/Oscar Wilde arrest clue
I guess we shouldn't dissect the question too much
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