Yes to Yen!

Bloggie friends!

Never leave home without a pen! Not only are they handy for scribbling down conversations verbatim like I am wont to do, they’re ever so handy for completing the Evening Standard quick crossword!

Especially whilst stuck on a non-moving packed train held immobile on the middle of the track due to “line congestion”.

Oh and while the train didn’t move, the engine was turned off and so was the heating - on the first proper frosty and icy day of the month.

The clue: Three letters for “longing”.

The answer: Yen.

As in “To have a yen for”. Ahem.

Charlie says: I yen to be next door.



Have a superb weekend everyone!

Drool is not cool!

It’s warm and muggy and I’m on my way home from work.

It’s also a Sunday so train commuting is a bit relaxed and I have a whole carriage to myself.

I am on the Stansted Express train complete with a “food trolley service” where a train employee pushes a food trolley along the length of the train selling snacks and drinks and suchlike.

Of course minutes after I settle into my seat, I fall asleep.

And I am woken up by my snoring at the exact moment the guy pushing the food trolley walks past me.

Did I mention that in my stupor I had slid and slumped halfway down the seat, my head to one side, my hair now rivalling Einstein's with drool dripping from my mouth?!?!?

And that I was snoring?

Anyway, he did the polite and professional thing and asked if I wanted any refreshments.

Charlie says: I don't snore and I'm gorgeous even when asleep! I must be adopted!

Thank you beautiful bloggie friends for helping me with my crossword!! You are all just perfectly brainy and lovely and very naughty (Reenie!!)!

I got the first letter wrong - heh heh! Sorry about that!

So in your honour I had ten MINI choccie muffins! Yum, yum!

Have a momentous Monday everyone!

Word Games

Ok brainy bloggie friends!

I try to do The Guardian quick crossword every Saturday.

I rarely finish but yesterday I came very very , very close.

I was stopped by this fiendish clue:

“Expurgate the indelicate unnecessarily” 10 letters.

These are the letters I have so far: R_W_L_R_ _ _

If you know the answer, I promise to have a chocolate muffin in your honour!

If you know what the phrase "Expurgate the indelicate unnecessarily" means, I’ll have the double choccie one!

Charlie says: nope the answer ain’t in these pots. (Those are my next door neighbour’s pots btw, not mine!!! Mine has flowers in them!)

Have a super Sunday everyone!