Peak Hound, Lake Hound

in the week that hurricane Irma wreaked havoc across the Caribbean Robson Hound returned from the Peak District whilst Daren Hound returned from the Lake District.

Off to a late start, to Steve's chagrin, due to a lack of teams but by about 20:45 enough people had turned up to form 6 teams.

Round one was Road Signs, which was dispatched with aplomb and lead to the talking point of puffins, toucans, zebras, pelicans and more surprisingly, Pegasus.

Current affairs  contained Stormzy calling Theresa May a 'Paigon' and Aeroflot being forced to end its ban on Stewardesses above a size 16. Elsewhere Iran had banned women from buying tickets to a men's football match. What a strange world we live in.

The next round was intriguingly entitled 'The light round'.  Turns out that the lighthouses on Lundy Island are in the county of Devon, not Somerset. The other question that troubled us was what did the   BBC light programme rebrand itself as in 1967. We put BBC2 when we should have answered Radio2. So close.

Connections round was identified fairly early on; Phil Bailey, Isla Fisher, Viking.........? At this stage we were hoping for a question along the lines of 'What is Stan Collymore's favourite pastime?' Unfortunately Dogger never came up but Tyne Daly, Trafalgar Del Shannon etc confirmed the connection .

The 10 pointers lead to a difference of opinion. Which boy band was Colin Farrell in? Not for the first time Robson had a gut feeling for westlife. Two of us thought it was Boyzone but with a 50/50 split we decided to go with the gut feeling. The fictional author of 'Fly Fishing' and the Saint's day of Shakespeare's birth and death were both clipped away to the covers quite easily but it turned out that Westlife proved to be our googly (I'm watching the cricket as I write this- could you tell?)

Things started going askew in the connections round; We knew Addagio means slow but decided to twist the answer in order to fit the next. Our answer of SofT lead us to Tea but we should have answered SloW which should have lead us to Walnuts (Persian English, Black) and not Tea. We recovered for the rest of the roun but a sticky wicket of a start.

The Joe Perdy round was pretty straightforward. Too straightforward and Graham smelt a bear trap. If it looks like a bear trap and smells like a bear trap, it probably is a bear trap and so it proved. Indira Gandhi's father was not Mahatma but Nehru. All our other answers were correct but counted for nothing.

Music round was the usual eclectic mixture of decades and genres with Yakety-Yak proving to be the most popular sing along track.

So, we finished a distant 4th but exactly a Boyzone and a Nehru behind the Anoraks who won with an impressive score of 173. Ah well, fine margins and all that but on to next week. TTFN.