Heard about Steady Past Your Granny's? The little book that's been a surprise hit on Kindle? I'm offering a signed hard copy of the book to the first correct answer, received by 23.59 BST on 14th August, 2011, to the following cryptic-ish question, the answers to which can be found in this blog. To make it a little easier, I have put links to the posts, and the dates of the relevant blog posts, in brackets:
What is the connection between a recent venue for a walk (The Hills Are Alive-ish, August, 2011), a little-heard film in Belper (Three for the Flea-Pit Part 2, March, 2011) and a device that perplexed my grandmother (At The Setting of the Television, November, 2010)?
In the event of more than one correct entry, the first one drawn out of my rather disreputable hat will win the prize. If no absolutely correct entries are submitted, the nearest entry to the correct answer will win the competition. The author's decision is entirely arbitrary, often wayward and decidedly final! Post your entry as a Comment, which will only be published after the deadline. Good luck!
And the answer was: Eric Idle
To explain, the recent venue for a walk was Rutland, a little-heard film in Belper was "A Hard Day's Night" starring The Beatles, and the device that perplexed my grandmother was the television. The connection was Rutland Weekend Television was a sequel to Monty Python's Flying Circus devised, starring and written by Eric Idle. From that show came the spoof group, 'The Rutles' (oddly similar to The Beatles) with Eric Idle and Neil Innes.
No winners I'm afraid, clearly I'm making these things too complex!
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Win a signed hard copy!
Heard about Steady Past Your Granny's? The little book that's been a surprise hit on Kindle? I'm offering a signed hard copy of the book to the first correct answer, received by 31st July, 2011, to the following cryptic-ish question, the answers to which can be found in the book:
Take the name of the window cleaner's son, add it to mum's place of work to get a High Street name that sounds like it might be a good home for a psychopath, I sink?
In the event of more than one correct entry, the first one drawn out of my rather disreputable hat will win the prize. Post your entry as a Comment, which will only be published after the deadline. Good luck!
Well, this didn't exactly engender a stampede of contestants! In fact, no entries were submitted so the signed copy lives to fight another day. If you were remotely interested in the answer, it is as follws:
"Walter Smiths Family Butchers"
This is derived from Walter (window cleaner's son) Smiths (Smiths Refrigeration was the workplace of my mum) and I talked about the psychopathic overtones of being a Family Butcher in the chapter "I Sink Therefore I Swam". Another competition to follow which will this time be based on the blog so that no-one has to purchase anything.
Take the name of the window cleaner's son, add it to mum's place of work to get a High Street name that sounds like it might be a good home for a psychopath, I sink?
In the event of more than one correct entry, the first one drawn out of my rather disreputable hat will win the prize. Post your entry as a Comment, which will only be published after the deadline. Good luck!
Well, this didn't exactly engender a stampede of contestants! In fact, no entries were submitted so the signed copy lives to fight another day. If you were remotely interested in the answer, it is as follws:
"Walter Smiths Family Butchers"
This is derived from Walter (window cleaner's son) Smiths (Smiths Refrigeration was the workplace of my mum) and I talked about the psychopathic overtones of being a Family Butcher in the chapter "I Sink Therefore I Swam". Another competition to follow which will this time be based on the blog so that no-one has to purchase anything.
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