Cheese Loving Hound

News from the team this week; Daren's picture has arrived from New Zealand, Graham has located the water source in his garden and my mother will be visiting. We don't really get up to much.

Pictures were "G" items, grapes, guitar, you get the idea. Very much a gentle warm up.Again, no current affairs this week on the quite reasonable grounds that there wasn't much. So "name the year" of various events. Those tripping us up were the first National Lottery draw and Concorde's last flight. Both quite recent but not that momentous. We weren't really close.

Concorde. Really is quite a lovely thing.

Next round was science. Pleasing naturally but I stumbled over the first in not recognising Newton's Law of universal gravitation, ah, the shame. We got on track though, recognising the small intestine is longer than the large one and that we should have 32 teeth but failing on the pistil rather than anther being the female part of a flower.

Connections jumped out quite quickly, answers such as Flash Gordon, The Tide is High and Aerial leaving us nowhere else to go. Still didn't get the Death card in a pack of playing cards or Jan & Dean's number one though - although we were close.

The only card you need.

Ten pointers reasonably dispatched and a draw of breath at halfway. Snacks were chicken nuggets and entertainment was from the US Open golf.

Here's the Erin Hills card. Safe to say they'll be off the blacks. 7800 yards! That could well be further than I go on my holidays.

I digress, back to the quiz and those chain letters. Alcatraz was linked with Zloty which followed on to Ypres and it all linked back to consommé. Which was nice.

Jepoardy kicked off in fairly gentle fashion but it took a real team effort to nail Klaus Barbie as the Butcher of Lyon, which is probably what it took in reality. Now we had only one blank, what is a turophile? This could be critical, entomology and etymology were used to their maximum effects but we weren't getting there. It was with a heavy heart that we left it blank.

One gap in the music was followed by a rare Hound win on the nearest the pin round (what is SCRABBLE worth in Scrabble)? We expected a high scoring contest and the lowest score was 123. The highest? Hound with 159! Turophile, well the blog title gave it away didn't it?

Until next week, but apologies from me, out of the area.