Beer Sloshed Hound

Well for once I have a valid excuse for a blog light on content. No need to rely on "left my notes on the bus" or "memory failed yet again", this time around half way through notes, pictures, quiz answers, trousers got a good dousing and were rendered virtually useless, slight exaggeration on the trousers there.

Four contenders, Daren, Kevin, Graham and myself, and we faced by a bunch, of mainly A list actors. That would certainly apply to the likes of Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Keanu Reaves. But if number 7 has a claim to fame other than looking a bit like Gary Barlow, none of us knew about it. The geezer with the Phil Oakey haircut escaped us as well.

Onto current affairs and such newsworthy items as a portrait of Charles Dickens has surfaced in South Africa. Apparently the owners have great expectations for the auction price.


Ok, lets move onto Round 3 and could it be magic? Actually it could with a magically themed round which managed to avoid all of the Harry Potter Universe. So we had the Magic Flute, Magic Johnson, the Magical Mystery Tour and the Magic Roundabout.


Name the year took us back a bit further than recently and events such as the closing of US relations with Cuba, Alcatraz ceasing to be in use and the 35th academy awards stretched all our memories. The Great Train Robbery was the event to anchor it all in 1963 though.


Ten pointers and well done on G Force for bagging the Globe theatre resurfaced on the South Bank in 1997 after a 353 year absence and we were in the mix. Ok the link-up notes did got soaked so onto jeopardy and fairly smooth sailing for most of the way until our progress was hijacked by the er hijacking of this vessel.

Prudence prevailed and nine answers were submitted. Can't remember much of the music but I'm sure there was some Olly Murs in there and the first telephone directory had 50 names in it, well done Kevster. Curiously no numbers though, it merely listed the people and businesses who had telephones. Right. Ok the important thing, Hound win!

And plans for the Christmas Hound do, something like this.

Definitely gets me out of my comfort zone. One that would get me back into it was Kevster's suggestion of an A25 crawl, maybe out to Shalford and back by bus, train or taxi or walk to Dorking. All options possible.


I'm away for the next two weeks but have every confidence in our youth system to pick things up while I'm off.