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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26524

    Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
    I'm prepared to wait & if no answer within a day I'll put up a regulations D.
    Oh I'm sure there'll be someone who'll be prepared to - but I agree, an Anna D would be great! Getting Campion was the latest in a line of bullseyes... Come along ANNA!!
    "...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..."

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    • hedgehog

      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
      One of the great advantages that you have, I suspect, hodge is that you quite a bit younger than many of us old-timers on AA and thus you have full possession of your memory marbles, all shiny and neatly lined up in row, whereas several of mine are a bit cracked & chipped and one shot under sideboard last July and is now covered in fluff

      Most of us don't remember what's been before, honest
      Not so sure about age Ams, but you know my marbles are made of diamonds (are a girl's best friend)

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      • Anna

        Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
        So now to the prize of the day - barring mercia, I think it falls to Anna - I'm quite sure she had got the gist of the thing without google aids. That combined with her knowledge of St Stephan on the letter B - Prize of the day!
        Well, bugger me, I have no idea what hedgehog is on about but - she thinks I'm wonderful, and gorgeous, so, in the words of Parry - I was glad!
        On the other flipper, I cannot see that the answer to the puzzle was Crumbs
        Anyway, I never watch Top Gear, Clarkson being such a moron, but I did see a trailer for their African adventure. of which the repeat is shortly on BBC2.
        So, I bid you goodnight for the meantime
        Actually, Crumbs is really weird, for an answer.

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        • amateur51

          Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
          Not so sure about age Ams, but you know my marbles are made of diamonds (are a girl's best friend)
          I'm of an age where a reference to diamonds usually met with ...



          I'm sixty-one y'know
          Last edited by Guest; 09-03-13, 19:23. Reason: trypo

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26524

            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            Well, bugger me, I have no idea what hedgehog is on about but - she thinks I'm wonderful, and gorgeous, so, in the words of Parry - I was glad!
            On the other flipper, I cannot see that the answer to the puzzle was Crumbs
            Anyway, I never watch Top Gear, Clarkson being such a moron, but I did see a trailer for their African adventure. of which the repeat is shortly on BBC2.
            So, I bid you goodnight for the meantime
            Actually, Crumbs is really weird, for an answer.
            And with that, she was off!!

            Anyone for D?
            "...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..."

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Originally posted by Anna View Post
              Crumbs is really weird, for an answer.
              just my little joke - ho-ho

              nevermind
              Last edited by mercia; 10-03-13, 04:46.

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26524

                Perhaps I could stand in for Anna, in the absence of a scramble to set the next puzzle, and propose a totally undeserved D...

                ...linking Telemann, an unmasked Queen and William Waynflete
                "...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..."

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Perhaps I could stand in for Anna, in the absence of a scramble to set the next puzzle, and propose a totally undeserved D...

                  ...linking Telemann, an unmasked Queen and William Waynflete
                  I take it that this is William Waynflete who became the Bishop of Winchester and later Lord Chancellor?

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26524

                    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                    I take it that this is William Waynflete who became the Bishop of Winchester and later Lord Chancellor?
                    You take it well, sir
                    "...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..."

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                      So to clarify: What a polyglot huddle of C’s in that field there!

                      That is a group of Composers of different nationalities (languages)

                      A pig-headed one Cabezón, horsemen (Cavalieri )with their accomplice (Compère)trampling with his slipper (Chausson) those wildflowers (both red and white)
                      (Campion).
                      when you put it like that, it seems very straightforward

                      Last edited by mercia; 10-03-13, 07:03.

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        re: D

                        anything to do with any musician who might have passed through Magdalen College ?

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26524

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          re: D

                          anything to do with any musician who might have passed through Magdalen College ?

                          Indeed. There are actually 2 such connections with Magd:Coll:Oxon among the three elements to the puzzle.
                          "...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..."

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            I suppose I was thinking of Daniel Purcell

                            but unless we're looking for three Daniels that wouldn't make sense

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26524

                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              I suppose I was thinking of Daniel Purcell

                              but unless we're looking for three Daniels that wouldn't make sense
                              Whereas, as usual mercia, you make perfect sense. You are indeed looking for three Daniels !







                              "...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..."

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                              • Resurrection Man

                                I'm getting links to unmasking cleopatra samuel daniel's 1594 cleopatra...but probably 100% irrelevant.

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