Whilst The Hound is away the hounds fiddle as metaphors burn...

The Purley Arms
17th July 2014

In the absence of The actual Hound, the collective Hound gathered once again to uphold his absent end and mount another raid on the prize fund to boost the canine coffers...

One thing that has happened in The Hound's absence and which must, in your correspondent's opinion, be addressed immediately is the changing of our table of choice from a nice roomy oblong one to a piddly little, squashed, round one - by the time we're several rounds and a packet of Wotsits into it there is no room left for anything else - back to the traditional tables asap please...

And it is this justification that I am tenuously clinging to for the relative paucity of this week's report - by the time Dirren had the pen, G-Dog had his notes, and half a dozen glasses were in varying stages of being drained there was simply no room left for me to concentrate on what was going on, let alone take notes that may subsequently help me write something worthwhile...

And so;
- there was a picture round - famous people with July birthdays - we absolutely romped it - 10/10
- there was a current affairs round during which I was mildly upset to learn that apparently Jeremy Kyle is a West Ham United supporter - 6/10
- can't quite recall, even with G-Dog's 'notes', the gist of round three but we were damn good at it - 10/10 (might've been 'food and drink')
- we got most of the individual answers in the connections round but can't for the life of me remember what the connection was or whether we got it...
- and we got all three of the ten point bonus questions, apparently

In the second half;
- we bossed the round on opening lyrics to songs 10/10
- did quite well in whatever was next and
- bossed the music round

I seem to remember that our 'estimate for the box of chocolates' was dreadful - although that could've been the previous week - and when all was said and done we'd got a total of 152 and a comfortable victory.

Yay for the collective Hound and thrice times yay again - The actual Hound is now back amongst us and so we continue...