More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)

[Hobbit]

I'm back Jack & back in my comfort zone on fracture clinic for the last hour of the day

     


I'm having a disjointed day & I'm all out of bonk.  


Soon be home time thank goodness  



Just found this last one by accident

[Ozzyjack]

Your cartoons tickled me  I don't think mine came out for some reason.

Hi Pen, it seems that the only the first two don't come out but I am sure they were there the first time I read your post.  I did some backtracking and got this message "The URL doesn't refer to an image or the image is not publicly accessible.".  It maybe that when somebody who does not have permission to view the image does so, a block to viewing the image again is put in.  This may also explain some of the problems I have struck in the past. Has anyone else had this problem?

Anyway, the cartoons in your last post made up for it.  A funny coincidence is that I saw an ad for a house in Brisbane where the husband had put two beer taps in.  I don't know whether that was why the wife was keen to sell it.  Unfortunately it was way out of my price range  

My theory that a few extra drinks would spark creativity didn't prove to be correct.  It just resulted in an early bed-time.

Here is one that is easy to track down if you need help solving it.  It is a line in a poem I have quoted recently.  1 4 2 7 6.
The first bonus point is easy - What is the title of the poem? The second maybe not so  easy - what is the Czech name for a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by a Czech composer which has a similar meaning in English to the title of the Aussie Poem?

A of  

[Hobbit]

Hi Jack

I bet you're right about why some of the cartoons disappear after a short time.

I well remember the poem you quoted recently.  The puzzle is "the land of sweeping plains" (I very nearly wrote planes  I'm a bit knacked this evening!)  The poem is called "My Country".  I've just read it through & it's superb.

A smashing puzzle but I'm going to pass on the second bonus point until tomorrow when I'm not quite so tired!  Also gives me a chance to think up a puzzle for you

Pen

[2dognight]

Hi Pen and Jack

I am still laughing at

the puzzle

With the dust storms we have had over the past weeks I saw yours truly with that broom

One day we will get some rain

Carol

[Hobbit]

Oh Carol I can't believe they've had all that rain around Sydney & you haven't had a drop. So unfair! I'll do a quick rain dance for you & hope you can put that broom away   Pen

[Hobbit]

Hi Jack

Things seem to be back to normal this morning thank goodness.  So I'm here on fracture clinic waiting for the hordes to arrive

Meant to say it was a shame that the house in Brisbane with the beer taps was out of your price range   Would have been fun & funny

I've racked my brain cell for a puzzle for you & come up with a children's book.
It's 5 words & the word pattern is 6, 2, 3, 4, 7. The last picture you're not interested in the actor or character.  Just what he does!
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Your bonus, should you choose to accept it, is when was the book written?

After an extensive search of Ms Google I've come up with Ma Vlast for the second bonus point from yesterday 

Here's a small assortment of silly cartoons.

      

[Linda]

Sorry Linda didn't mean to overlook you in beautiful Cumbria.  Hope you're safe & sound & not waterlogged. Pen

Well our small town made the news again due to the river flooding and causing devastation for nearby houses and businesses - not my home, fortunately, as I live nowhere near the river.  Next time our town will be in the news again will probably be when we get our annual invasion in June!!  Don't know which is worse!! 

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Pen,

You are right on the ball.  Full marks for My Homeland by Smetana. great cartoons and a devilish puzzle.  I have an answer but I am not sure I am right.  If I am right it is the third in a series of  seven fantasy novels, the first of which was

The , the and the

It was written between January and February 1950 and published on 15 September 1952,

I'm knacked.  My performance at the gym yesterday (Wednesday) was about 80% of what it was before Christmas and left me twice as tired.  I'll do a quick post to Carol and get back to bed as quick as I can.

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Carol

This article will give those that have never been in a dust storm a feel for how nasty they are.

Rain will come and when it does there will probably be too much of it.

Don't ask Scomo to pray for rain.  He did that for us and the whole east coast is flooded.

[Hobbit]

Well our small town made the news again due to the river flooding and causing devastation for nearby houses and businesses - not my home, fortunately, as I live nowhere near the river.  Next time our town will be in the news again will probably be when we get our annual invasion in June!!  Don't know which is worse!! 

Is that when the annual tourist invasion starts Linda?  Not much to chose between millions of tourists & millions of gallons of water
Pen

[Ozzyjack]

Next time our town will be in the news again will probably be when we get our annual invasion in June!!  Don't know which is worse!! 

Hi Linda

Judging by the pictures in this article I would prefer the tourists.

Of course, if the floods put the mint factory in Kendal out of action you might not have the June invasion

[Hobbit]

Spot on as usual Jack
I love Hugh Bonneville

Hope you & the chooks

[Linda]

Not exactly your run of the mill tourists!  If you search for 'world's largest traveller gathering' you should see why we hit the news in June!! 

[Ozzyjack]

Hi again Linda,

One of the things I love about the forum and its wide range of contributors from around the world is that you learn things that you never even suspected.

Now Ive read this article I now know about the June influx.

And the pity of it is they probably don't even like mint cakes.

[Linda]

Not really mint cake sort of people, Jack!  Chips, pies and beer is more their sort of thing!