Reinterred: May 2023

Wednesday, 31 May 2023

Sheringham Park Visit and Walk

Today I took Dawn to Sheringham Park to see the Rhododendrons and go for a walk down to Weybourne and along a stretch of the Norfolk Coast.

John Does The Suffolk Walking Festival 2023

This year's Suffolk Walking Festival is now over and this is an index to my blog posts of the walks I went on.

Yesterday I was presented with the first harvest from the garden of the year to incorporate into a meal.

Cheshire Cheese Update

After 2 weeks maturing wrapped in a cheesecloth in a container in the fridge I checked out my Cheshire-style cheese.

Suffolk Walking Festival Wool Towns Challenge Walk

I've now completed my blog posts of this year's Suffolk Walking Festival Challenge Walk.

Martlesham Meander

Today I supported Joyce who was leading this walk in the Suffolk Walking Festival.

My Index to this year's walks John's Walks 2023 has been updated up to 4th May. I've added an extra column to give links to GPX files of my routes, although I haven't made some of the GPX files available yet. As always the index updates may have some inadvertent errors in the links as it is quite a manual process which is easy to get wrong. If you find any errors please let me know. A further update soon once I've done my blogs of this year's Suffolk Walking Festival... coming this week, I hope

Saturday, 20 May 2023

Exning Beating the Bounds Walk

Today I joined another walk from the 2023 Suffolk Walking Festival, a Rogationtide 'Beating the Bounds' walk.

Hawkedon Horizons

Today I supported Joyce who was leading this walk in the Suffolk Walking Festival.

Weekend Quick Cryptic 77 - 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.

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 77 in the series, entitled "It's Raining".

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 London get together on Saturday 24th June from 1200 at The George, Borough High Street, Southwark, Greater London, SE1 1NH. All are welcome. Your Weekend Quick Cryptic Compilers and several TfTT bloggers and regular commenters will be there. We are also expecting Mick Hodgkin, the Times Puzzles Editor, Richard Rogan, 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.

Hoglands - Henry Moore's House Studios and Gardens

Today I joined other members of Bury St Edmunds U3A in a day out by coach to Henry Moore's House, Studios and Gardens in Peery Green, Hertfordshire.

Suffolk Walking Festival - Wool Towns Challenge Walk Day 4

Today was the last day of the 4-day Wool Towns Challenge Walk as part of the 2023 Suffolk Walking Festival and many of us were wearing our souvenir T-shirts we had been presented with yesterday.

Suffolk Walking Festival - Wool Towns Challenge Walk Day 3

Today was the third day of the 4-day Wool Towns Challenge Walk as part of the 2023 Suffolk Walking Festival.

The Suffolk Walking Festival is under way and I'm currently 3 days out of 4 into the Wool Towns Challenge Walk.

Suffolk Walking Festival - Wool Towns Challenge Walk Day 2

Today was the second day of the 4-day Wool Towns Challenge Walk as part of the 2023 Suffolk Walking Festival.

Suffolk Walking Festival - Wool Towns Challenge Walk Day 1

Today was the first day of the 4-day Wool Towns Challenge Walk as part of the 2023 Suffolk Walking Festival.

A Eurovision Crossword

It's Eurovision Finals day today, and yesterday we were treated to another clever themed crosswords from Felix (a pseudonym of Richard Rogan, the Times Crossword Editor). .

Cheshire Cheese.

Yesterday I made some more cheese with the Cheese Monkey kit I got from Laura for my birthday.

Pentaholicism

While browsing for videos for my post about Vocal Sampling the other day I came across another A Capella Group.

Ickworth House Spring flowers

Today Dawn and I went to Ickworth House for a walk before lunch.

Vocal Sampling

This post is a bit overdue! On our 3 days walking the Thames Path at the end of March, one of the conversations was around the best bands we had seen live.

The King Shall Rejoice

I watched some of the Coronation today with Dawn and enjoyed the music.

Weekend Quick Cryptic 76 - Solution

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

This time it is Sawbill's turn to provide the fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic crossword, Number 76 in the series.

DO COME TO THE 2D. We are planning another London get together on Saturday 24th June at from 1200 at The George, Borough High Street, Southwark, Greater London, SE1 1NH. All are welcome. Your Weekend Quick Cryptic Compilers and several TfTT bloggers and regular commenters will be there. We are also expecting Mick Hodgkin, the Times Puzzles Editor, Richard Rogan, 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.