Saturday 31 August 2013
31 August - Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
It gets me upset in the newspaper
(4)
Solution – item
It
= it
Me
upset = em (ie the letters are upset or put the other way round)
It
+ em = item, what an article in a newspaper is often called
I'm sly perhaps, and slippery (5)
Hint – another
anagram for you today.
Motuihe Island
Motuihe Island is a very small
recreational island in the Waitemata Harbour, one of Auckland's two
harbours. Generations of Auckland
children, including myself, went on the ferry to Motuihe to have school or
church picnics.
Motuihe
has 2 beaches – one on each side of the island – so one of the beaches will be
sheltered even if the other one isn't.
And it takes less than 10 minutes to walk from one beach to the other.
Lots
of boaties also anchor up at Motuihe to swim, picnic etc. Even quite large gin palaces as well as the
more modest fizz boats.
Fantastic!
PS in checking up for writing this post, I discovered that I have always previously spelled Motuihe wrong! Motu means "island" in Maori.
Friday 30 August 2013
30 August - Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
Dancer all bare in confusion! (9)
Solution – ballerina
A
ballerina is a type of dancer. And if
you confuse the letters in "all bare in" you also get to
ballerina. Cute clue.
It gets me upset in the newspaper
(4)
Hint – this
is a charades clue
Food on Friday: Vanilla and Saffron
ON
We
are going to make a lovely collection today – of dishes using either vanilla or
saffron – or maybe even both! I 'm
really looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
To
add your goodies to the collection, just put your name and the name of the dish
into the first Mr Linky box and paste the url for your post about it into the
second box.
I
have made up this Pinboard and will be pinning the links to it as they come in – or as soon as I can
anyway! By visiting or following the
Pinboard you will be able to choose easily which dishes you want to check out
in more detail.
Thursday 29 August 2013
29 August - Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
Incline to be thin (4)
Solution – lean
Lean
can mean to incline or be thin.
Dancer all bare in confusion! (9)
Hint – there's
an anagram….
Girl with a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
I
have only just got around to reading The
Girl with a Dragon Tattoo – I know, it's been out for simply ages! I ended up enjoying the book – but it does
get off to quite a slow start – and it was only my normal stubbornness that
made me keep on reading.
What
really makes the book is the amazing female protagonist – Lisbeth. I won't say much about her just in case you
haven't read the book yet.
One
warning – there are a couple of gruesome sex scenes in the book – which are not
gratuitous – but still shocking.
But,
I'm still really glad I read it and I will be reading the next book in the
trilogy soon.
Wednesday 28 August 2013
28 August - Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
Eats some meals upstairs (4)
Solution – sups
Did
you spot "sups" right there in the clue?
Incline to be thin (4)
Hint – a
double definition clue today.
Need some inspiration?– Try some French Food!
To
see all the links from Food
on Friday: French Food, go to the
original
post or to this Pinboard.
Here
are the ones that caught my eye particularly:
Rosace
à L'Orange by
Cooking Weekends
Potage
au Fanes des Radis by
CultureGeek
How to
make French Macarons by
Your Home Based Mom
Steak
with Creamy Chanterelle Sauce by The Daring
Gourmet
Clafoutis
aux Cerises by
Spinach Tiger
Vegetarian
French Onion Soup by
Vegetarian & Cooking
Bon Appetit!
Tuesday 27 August 2013
27 August - Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
Blamed for an uproar (6)
Solution – Bedlam
If
you scramble the letters in "blamed" you can get Bedlam which matches
"uproar". Uproar is also the
hint that an anagram is involved so that word in the clue is doing double duty.
Eats some meals upstairs (4)
Hint – look
for a hidden word
Macerated Berry Salad
In
honour of the forthcoming Food on Friday about Vanilla, here is an extremely simple but spectacular dish which is
enhanced by the addition of Vanilla Extract.
I think this looks appetising despite the rather pedestrian stainless
steel bowl!
Just
hull your strawberries and put them into a bowl with raspberries and
blueberries. Pour over them some
limoncello and kirsch together with the vanilla extract. I think the lemon flavour in the limoncello
is really good but you could use any liqueur or spirit you have on hand (except
milk based ones).
Stir
and leave to macerate in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
I
like to serve this with whipped cream and/or ice cream.
Monday 26 August 2013
Capital city of the week - Papeete
Papeete is the capital of a country made up
of a number of islands.
The
country is under the control of France but is allowed some autonomy.
It
has a large and vibrant market.
You
gotta love their buses!
So
where is Papeete?
It's
the capital of French Polynesia. It is
on the lovely island of Tahiti.
26 August - Solution for the last clue and the next cryptic crossword clue
Wear still to be treated in part of
building (9)
Solution - stairwell
Obviously
a stairwell is part of a building.
If
you treat or mix up the letters in "Wear still" you also get to
"stairwell"
Blamed for an uproar (6)
Hint – there's
an anagram there somewhere
Braque
Georges Braque (1882-1963) was a French
painter. He, together with Picasso,
created what became known as Cubism.
He
started out as a house painter like his father!
Then when he took up painting he was first an Impressionist, then a
Fauvist before being inspired by Picasso.
He
was the first living artist ever to have work exhibited in the Louvre.
His
works are both weird and wonderful.
On
the 31st of August he would have been 131.
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