Whispering Hound

Right, good to be almost back up to full strength. Other than Graham who was out in Malta, checking what the flag looks like presumably, the regulars were all present and correct. Daren looked chirpier than he's been for a while and Kevster was approaching the end of his beard cycle, albeit accompanied by the campest ringtone I've ever heard.

Steve was also in fine fettle and gave us the reason behind his non-attendence a few weeks back. For a while now he's been a single man and while enjoying the freedoms that brings, we all have needs and had decided to dip a toe into the shark-infested waters of internet dating. He'd struck up a conversation with Roisin (Gaelic for Rose folks) on match.com who was, pausing for dramatic effect, a trainee dog whisperer.

This instantly threw up more questions than it answered. We did wonder whether Steve was having his chain yanked and this was a ruse to attract blokes but it had only come up in subsequent chat. During training she was working as a dog walker, presumably whispering to stop them fouling pavements, attacking people etc.

So how did the date go? Well it didn't, due to meet at the White Horse in Reigate, sadly one of Roisin's own dogs had a stroke and she had to stay in to look after the poor fella. Will they meet up? Keep reading the blog for more updates.

The quiz, well it was going to be an anticlimax after all that. First up:

Comments have been made that my pictures aren't that good. So here's allegedly a better one.

Doesn't even have colour.

The first picture is more relevant to the quiz, dingbat type things, twelve up there, think we got the ten we needed.

Given most of us were actually there this week I'll just provide highlights:

- Kidderminster has the most expensive pies in football
- By contrast, the most expensive cheese is a Serbian goats cheese
- Troika, Creme Anglaise, Millie and Aloha are all roses
- 10 pointers were pretty easy
- The Sri Lankan flag has a lion holding a sword
- We really weren't close on the Jeopardy and only submitted about four answers, one of which was wrong
- We actually recognised Ed Sheeran in the music, and almost got the track!

So the results, now busting the jeopardy we weren't confident.

102- BLTN - a couple of whom looked well up to the job if Roisin proves elusive
119 - The Lady and the Tramp. Plus the rest of the world and his wife. Barely room for them all round the table.
128 - Hound
137 - The Busters

No complaints, we were where we were. Kevster's in the Lake District next week, Daren's back at work and Graham should be back in the UK. Plus ca change for me I expect.