Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Hey you guys! - Get a room!

btw someone needs to give his inbox a spring clean...

[Resurrection Man]

Hey you guys! - Get a room!

[Nick Armstrong]

We appear to have stalled. Anna gave a V puzzle and the answer... and is no doubt up to her elbows in légumes by this time on a Saturday...

I have devised a little W conundrum to get the show back on the road, if no one objects?

A W which connects Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE, John Dowland and Berwick-upon-Tweed.

In one sense, I think that this may be one for our dear vinblanc

[Anna]

At first glance, this seems really easy. Sting has done Dowland on the lute (did anyone hear the R3 programme - he was quite awfully dire) But, Berwick-upon-Tweed? No. I can do, with the first two elements, Walsingham, but then .......... I falter upon the altar of Berwick.
(And, I am not up to me elbows in legumes, apart from kidney beans, cooking up a storming chilli con carne)

[Nick Armstrong]

At first glance, this seems really easy. Sting has done Dowland on the lute (did anyone hear the R3 programme - he was quite awfully dire) But, Berwick-upon-Tweed? No. I can do, with the first two elements, Walsingham, but then .......... I falter upon the altar of Berwick.
(And, I am not up to me elbows in legumes, apart from kidney beans, cooking up a storming chilli con carne)

Up to the wrists in pulses, then....

Walsingham is not the W in question, but nor was he unconnected with the W you're looking for.

[Anna]

Up to the wrists in pulses, then....
Walsingham is not the W in question, but nor was he unconnected with the W you're looking for.

I do like to hear a living pulse! No, defeated, from Walsinghsm I moved on to somewhere in Norfolk conncected with Dowland ........ I won't say, because others may have a clue, but Berwick has defeated me! And, now I am, really, truly, madly, deeply, off-line!

[Nick Armstrong]

now I am, really, truly, madly, deeply, off-line!

[Angle]

The most outstanding architectural feature of Berwick of Tweed seems to have some connection with a work by Dowland.

Too hot to think more.

[Nick Armstrong]

The most outstanding architectural feature of Berwick of Tweed seems to have some connection with a work by Dowland.

Too hot to think more.

Angle! Very good to have you back, plus that product of the high-temperature crucible that is your brain!

Cool down and come back for another stab.

No architectural features... er... featured in my formulation of the question but it seems very likely to me that you are on the right track

[Nick Armstrong]

No more nibbles?

A little research on Ws which appear in the Sting-Dowland enterprise (as identified by Anna - but not the "Walsingham" track she pointed to) will get you to the answer...

[Nick Armstrong]

A W which connects Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE, John Dowland and Berwick-upon-Tweed.

In one sense, I think that this may be one for our dear vinblanc

Deafening silence continues...

Further clue: you're after an aristocratic gentleman

[amateur51]

Deafening silence continues...

Further clue: you're after an aristocratic gentleman

My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home?

Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby was the Governor Of Berwick-upon-Tweed

[Nick Armstrong]

My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home?

Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby was the Governor Of Berwick-upon-Tweed

Lord love yer for a wise gennlm'n

Spot on

I thought Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby might float vindetable's boat, but narry a nibble...

Yes, he was a notable figure, and the subject of Dowland's song which was performed by Mr Sting.

In the course of my researches, I found that some think old Peregrine was the model for Petruchio in 'Taming of the Shrew'...

X/Y/Z/A lucky dip for you, Mr A

[amateur51]

What Z links , in order: Pagliazzo, Mezzetin, Cavicchio, and Burattin, and [finally] Pasquariello?

[Nick Armstrong]

What Z links , in order: Pagliazzo, Mezzetin, Cavicchio, and Burattin, and [finally] Pasquariello?

Zerbinetta.