All Around My Hound

Going to be a bit haphazard here. That's not, in any way due to by blogging notes being lost/misplaced/eaten by the dog. Categorically not.

Cheltenham Gold Cup day is the 13th March this year. Unlucky for some? Frankly when has it ever been lucky? As mentioned the Hills opposite the Smugglers is now shut, along with so many, Trevor Horn's fault apparently. Popping over to place a bet is very much part of it so I'm going to throw in The Purley Arms (known to some of you I believe) as a possible alternative. They'll be showing it all, lots of TVs and a Corals up the road. But open to other suggestions.

In similar vein Maundy Thursday falls on the 9th April. London already postulated as a venue, let's hope we're not all in lockdown by then.

Ok, seeing if my scanner is working....

Number 3 vexed us. Number 5 didn't but should have done (i.e. we got it wrong). Anyone?

Various questions followed. Corona really does seem to have taken over and not deemed too depressing

One other story that did creep through is that the Swiss village of Mitholz may be closed for up to 10 years while WWII munitions are cleared. What a lovely place!

Ten pointers were relatively easily dispatched and onto the 2nd half. Annabelle was the doll who joined it all up, jeopardy was going well until a key slip, somehow confusing Uncle Albert with one of the all time boxing greats brought it all crashing down. Well, we won last week, let's not get greedy.

The music was a good selection, somehow Mariah Carey was mistaken for Whitney and The Hues Corporation for Forrest. Probably not for the first time.

Enjoy leap Saturday!

51 Pound Hound

Very quiet around 8.15, but the usual late rush and suddenly there are 9 teams in the house!

5 fruit and 5 vegetables in the picture round.

I think we missed 2, 4, 6 and 10. Can't remember the actual answers. 

6 right in the current affairs round as well. Poor notes mean that I can only really report that Glasgow has had a spike in new HIV cases. Costa Rica and Hong Kong featured but not sure why.

A difficult start then turned harder with a round on tea. We got the first 4 right including identifying this as a Samovar...

Robson guessed Turkey as the country drinking the most tea 

per capita ahead of Ireland but was largely ignored. Mrs Doyle will be distraught. I don't think any teams guessed that the disgusting sounding concoction of black tea, honey, condensed milk and tapioca is Bubble Milk.

We made a better fist of the this week that year round missing only one, and got all 3 ten pointers after a long process of elimination to get that 10 March is Pisces. Lowish first half score of 80 but probably not as bad as it sounds.

We made the full chain after backsolving to get a description of porridge and that a US dentist invented the first electric chair in the 19th century.

Strong Jeopardy round with 8 near certain. Our best guess for the location of Whipsnade Zoo was Bucks, it is Beds but we didn't stick our necks out as we were clueless re a question concerning Ruta Bega and I can't remember or find via google what it was now. 

19 of 20 in music round, one song title missed.

Not sure if any other teams blew out but a comfortable 11 point margin meant that we had gone one better after 3 second places lately. A total of 34 contestants meant that we had won £51, possibly a new PB?

Maundy Thursday is now only a few weeks away and a return to Borough Market has been mooted. All thoughts and opinions are welcomed.