Arger Fen Bluebells and the 3 Dragons Walk

Today it was my turn to lead a walk for Joyce's Weekly Walks. Joyce asked me if I could again lead this walk I took the group on a year ago today from Bures St. Mary.

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Times for The Times Admin? That's me! A couple of weeks ago our TimesforTheTimes website started getting a plague of false registrations of new members.

Moonflower Murders

Have you been watching Magpie Murders?

Brunost Cheese

I got a Cheese Monkey Artisan Cheese-making kit from Laura for my birthday.

Bury St. Edmunds Spring Beer Festival

Yesterday I met up with my friend Tim at the first Bury St. Edmunds Spring Beer Festival at the Constitution Club.

Hoagy II

Last night Dawn and I were at the Hunter club for a concert of Hoagy Carmichael's music.

Weekend Quick Cryptic 75 - Solution

My fellow TimesforTheTimes contributors Phil Jordan, Sawbill and I are continuing to produce Quick Cryptic crosswords to fill the gap left by the Saturday Times not having one. The plan is for us to take turns, publishing one a fortnight, and this week it's my turn. 

You can find a link to the crossword here and the answers below. Feel free to leave any comments or questions here as you would do on TfTT. You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here. 

Weekend Quick Cryptic 75 - by Phil Jordan

Click here to read about the origin of this series of crosswords.

A brief history of the origins of these crosswords for those who are new to them. As a blogger of the Times Quick Cryptic Crossword on Times for The Times every other Friday, I often had comments on the blog bemoaning that The Times only provides a Quick Cryptic on Mondays to Fridays. When I finally gave up work at the end of February 2020, I decided that I would try my hand at compiling crosswords. It was with some trepidation that I published, in May 2020, the first of these Weekend Quick Cryptics to fill the gap. Well it seemed to go down well so I did another. And then my fellow crossword solver and commenter on Times for the Times, Phil Jordan, volunteered to produce some too. And then, more recently, so did Sawbill. So now the three of us take turns, publishing each new crossword via my Friday Quick Crossword blog. 

This time it is my Phil's to provide the fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic crossword, Number 75 in the series, entitled.

You can try and solve the crossword interactively here on MyCrossword or here on crossword.info.  As usual you can download a PDF to print which you can find here. Alternatively you can copy and print the image below. Comments and queries are welcome with the solution post (which also gives tips on some of the clues).  I will react to any comments or queries there as soon as I can. You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here.

COME AND MEET SOME FELLOW CROSSWORD LOVERS. We are planning another get together of Weekend QC Compilers, TfTT Bloggers and Commenters on Saturday 24th June from 12:00 at The George, Borough High Street, Southwark, Greater London, SE1 1NH. All are very welcome. We are also expecting Mick Hodgkin, the Times Puzzles Editor, Richard Rogan, The Times Crossword Editor and Pete Biddlecombe, Sundays Times Crossword Editor and founder of Times for The Times to drop in. If you intend coming along, please drop me a line to Johninterred's Email, or send me a message via the "Contact Me" box in the sidebar, so we can have some idea of numbers and reserve sufficient table space.

Aldringham Attractions Walk

This week it was Glen's turn to lead a walk for Joyce's Weekly Walks. He took us to Aldringham near Sizewell for a varied circular walk through heathland, woods and the town of Leiston.

Bradfield Woods

This afternoon we had our first visit to Bradfield Woods of the year.

Martlesham Creek, Woodbridge and Melton Walk

This week, Joyce is doing recces for the walks she is leading at the Suffolk Walking Festival next month. Today she was doing her Martlesham one and, as Dawn hadn't done most of the paths, we went along.

Easter Celebration Meal

Last night we went out for a celebratory meal to the Ice Café.

A Lackford Lakes Amble

We have Laura and Laurence staying for the Easter weekend and  we took them to visit Lackford Lakes this morning..

Sky Writing

Seen in the sky above our house earlier this afternoon...

Dawn thought it might be a marriage proposal

Christmas Ale Update

 

Yesterday I tried a bottle of my Christmas Ale, bottled on 14th March.

Weekend Quick Cryptic 74 - Solution

My fellow TimesforTheTimes contributors Phil Jordan, Sawbill and I are continuing to produce Quick Cryptic crosswords to fill the gap left by the Saturday Times not having one. The plan is for us to take turns, publishing one a fortnight, and this week it's my turn. 

You can find a link to the crossword here and the answers below. Feel free to leave any comments or questions here as you would do on TfTT. You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here. 

Weekend Quick Cryptic 74 - A New Season Begins

Click here to read about the origin of this series of crosswords.

A brief history of the origins of these crosswords for those who are new to them. As a blogger of the Times Quick Cryptic Crossword on Times for The Times every other Friday, I often had comments on the blog bemoaning that The Times only provides a Quick Cryptic on Mondays to Fridays. When I finally gave up work at the end of February 2020, I decided that I would try my hand at compiling crosswords. It was with some trepidation that I published, in May 2020, the first of these Weekend Quick Cryptics to fill the gap. Well it seemed to go down well so I did another. And then my fellow crossword solver and commenter on Times for the Times, Phil Jordan, volunteered to produce some too. And then, more recently, so did Sawbill. So now the three of us take turns, publishing each new crossword via my Friday Quick Crossword blog. 

This time it is my turn to provide the fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic crossword, Number 74 in the series, entitled "A New Season Begins".

You can try and solve the crossword interactively here on MyCrossword or here on crossword.info.  As usual you can download a PDF to print which you can find here. Alternatively you can copy and print the image below. Comments and queries are welcome with the solution post (which also gives tips on some of the clues).  I will react to any comments or queries there as soon as I can. You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here.

SAVE THE DATE. We are planning another get together of Weekend QC compilers, TfTT bloggers and commenters on Saturday 24th June at from 12:00 at The George, Borough High Street, Southwark, Greater London, SE1 1NH. All are welcome. We are also expecting Mick Hodgkin, the Times Puzzles Editor and Pete Biddlecombe, Sundays Times Crossword Editor and founder of Times for The Times to drop in. If you intend coming along, please drop me a line to Johninterred's Email, or send me a message via the "Contact Me" box in the sidebar, so we can have some idea of numbers and reserve sufficient table space.

Polstead Walk

Today it was the first Thursday of the month and so time for the  U3A Bury St Edmunds Longer Walks Group monthly walk. Today we walked in South Suffolk from the delightful village of Polstead.

Hadleigh Walk

Today we had a different walk from Hadleigh vis Kersey with a treat for fans of The Detectorists.

Gonville and Caius College Annual Gathering

I didn't need any persuading to go to this. It's been a while...