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Two pubs
We are so lucky in our village, for lots of reasons, but one of them is that we have two excellent pubs. Our ‘local’ is the Dolphin, being about 100 yards nearer, but also we have always gone in there,...
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Pub quiz again…
So we remembered Sir Winston Churchill, and we remembered laurel and hardy taking a piano up or downstairs, but we had no clue about the stars of Guy Ritchie films, and couldn’t for the life of us...
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We won!
Every Tuesday that we are able, we go to our pub, The Dolphin, to take part on the quiz. Teams of up to four compete over two rounds. There are twenty-five questions which are read out, and the teams...
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We won! Again!
Last week I was very excited t report that we had won the quiz at out local pub, the Dolphin There is a crack team there who win nearly every week with scores of top marks, 25/25. We won last week… and...
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Pub quiz… fail!!!
Almost every Tuesday we go to the Dolphin for the pub quiz; between us we mostly don’t do too badly, although we never win… actually we may have won once! The answer sheet is a divided into twenty-five...
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We abandoned the Boltons
A while ago I wrote about our quiz friends from the pub, the Dolphin; we call the Boltons because they come from Bolton, and when we can, we sit next to them during the pub quiz. They are great folks,...
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Two pubs…
As we walked home a few minutes ago, at about 11:25, we reflected on how lucky we are two have two great pubs in our little village. Our ‘local’ is the Dolphin for various reasons, nothing to do with...
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Pub quiz again
Quiz night tonight and we did really well… but not well enough! In the first round we got 20/25, in the second we got 21/25 – and we were beaten by one point in each round! it matters not! We were in...
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Busy, busy, busy…
Having worked all my life, including holiday jobs from the age of about twelve, I find I am busier than ever now that I am not in paid work. This whole year has been busy but the last few weeks have...
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Quiz night at the Dolphin
So, Tuesday night is quiz night at the Dolphin, and as my husband isn’t rehearsing with his band we set off to our local, the best pub in the world, the Dolphin because tonight it’s quiz night. Through...
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The answers… at quiz night…
Going to our pub the Dolphin for quiz night isn’t just about answering questions in the quiz. It’s meeting friends: son, girlfriend, her mother, their friends (who are our friends too) our team-mates –...
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… and this week at the quiz…
Tuesday is the night when the quiz in our pub takes place, our pub being the Dolphin. It’s a great quiz because there is an element of luck in who wins because the answers are written down on a grid...
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Tasmanian adventure – quiz night at the Duke!
Even when we are away on holiday, the combination of a great pub, great food, great beer and a quiz is unmissable! We had seen a nice looking pub, the Duke – actually The Duke of Wellington Hotel, on...
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What you learn in the pub quiz…
I was a big fan of Bananarama… and yet tonight in the pub quiz, I forgot all I knew and it was only thanks that team ice-cream remembered that we got the answer right!!! It was written by Motown...
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Royalty – part 1
As well as leading two creative writing groups, I am also in a writing group; there are seven of us and we meet roughly once a month and read something we have written on a topic chosen the last time...
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Royalty – part 2
I shared the first part of a story with you yesterday; it was something I wrote for my writing group. The topic was ‘Royalty’ and I was really struggling to think of what to write when I remembered two...
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Peggy Lee and the capital of Armenia
Tuesday is pub quiz night at the Dolphin; there is no strict limit to the number of people in a team, but it always seems not quite right to have big teams pitted against threes and fours. Usually we...
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Got it wrong!
Tonight at the pub quiz, the question was about the Shangri-Las what was their hit in the UK… OK,so it’s easy now to remember,now I’m home, but in the pressure of the quiz where it is one of...
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How could I forget Joan Armatrading???
So it was quiz night at the pub… we did quite well but unfortunately we didn’t win either of the rounds. The questions were fair, tricky but not obscure, tantalisingly just too deep in our memory...
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The cars in the city go rushing by
Pub quiz tonight… and a music question we got the answer to! I forget the question but the answer was Kim Wilde! One of the most successful British recording artists, she was born in 1960 and went on...
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