Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

a particular botanical concept

Really? No, I'm just using the words descriptively...

[Nick Armstrong]

Frank Bridge wrote a berceuse - close enough to home?

Certainly closer... No foreign languages were harmed (or used) in the making of this puzzle (or its answer).

[hedgehog]

An Irish composer with a cradle song?

[Anna]

A perfect flower could be A Spotless Rose I guess (or am I confused and it's a Carol?)

[mercia]

ah, well done yet again Anna

just as I thought of a Little Door <doh>

[Anna]

ah, well done yet again Anna
just as I thought of a Little Door <doh>

Oh, I was just musing out loud mercia, not playing and wasn't it Praetorious? And, I'm sure it's a Carol not a lullaby. Not heard of Little Door I must confess!

[mercia]

I was just musing out loud

or homing in on the exact answer with pinpoint accuracy, as usual

[Anna]

or homing in on the exact answer with pinpoint accuracy, as usual

No, honestly not (you make me sound like a guided missile! Or a pigeon!) It's just my logical female mind thinking what could be a perfect flower .... I'm off to tackle all this paperwork and will leave you all in peace now!

[Nick Armstrong]

I was just musing out loud... not playing

This, I think, we must christen "Anna's Gambit"...

...à la 'waving not drowning'...

"Musing not playing"

As usual, our Muse ushers in the correct answers...

Spotless Rose: ✔
Little Door: ✔

Who's going to aMuse the company by getting the third of the group and the H ?

[mercia]

Herbert Howells
Three Carol-Anthems - Here is the Little Door, A Spotless Rose and Sing Lullaby

and with snow outside it could be Christmas

[Nick Armstrong]

Herbert Howells
Three Carol Anthems - Here is the Little Door, A Spotless Rose and Sing Lullaby

and with snow outside it could be Christmas

That's partly what triggered my thought

Cheers mercia Quite correct!

Warm us up with an Interesting I...

[mercia]

an Interesting I...

no pressure there then



I please connecting

a great Celtic hill, a name for Guernsey and a Harry Watt production

[Anna]

This, I think, we must christen "Anna's Gambit"...

There is already an Anna's Gambit (of sorts) in the Battle of Bueno Vista in 1847 but the Anna involved was a man and his name was Santa Anna: Santa Anna's Gambit: General Santa Anna, recently welcomed back to Mexico after living in exile in Cuba, swiftly raised an army of 20,000 men

I please connecting
a great Celtic hill, a name for Guernsey and a Harry Watt production

Mercia, this is intriguing and I have had a puzzle over this but apart from a fleeting reference to Druids I have absolutely no idea whatsoever (so I cannot be a heat-seeking device in this instance) I look forward to looking in around 10pm to see if anyone has made inroads. (Btw, we seem to be missing Flay, is he off on his hols again?)

[Flay]

(Btw, we seem to be missing Flay, is he off on his hols again?)

No he isn't! He's at work and up to his neck in it.

But I'm soon to be released from this practice - I will be a free agent. Do you need any locums in Merthyr?

Mind you on the 20th I am popping for a few nights in Chamonix - where I hope to get a good view of Caliban's comet (as well as a smidgen of skiing )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I please connecting

a great Celtic hill, a name for Guernsey and a Harry Watt production

Should we ever go across the sea for this answer, mercs? Or bowl a Mai Dunn overlander?