An Afternoon At Boundary Mill

[poliphilo]

We spent yesterday afternoon at the Boundary Mill retail outlet in Colne. They've moved house since I was last there. The new premises is a vast, custom built warehouse with a porticoed frontage that makes it look like an art deco airport concourse. Ailz and Ruth went up and down the aisles- Ailz paddling herself along in her wheelchair- and I mostly sat in corners and did crossword puzzles.

There was this one clue I just couldn't get: "Number in theatre". I went to sleep last night still thinking about it. Then at 3.30 a.m I woke up- and there was the answer: "anaethetist".

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I mainly do the Daily Telegraph crosswords.

My mother does them too- at meal times. When we go down to visit she makes photocopies of the current puzzle so we can all join in.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I subscribe to the New York Times crosswords on line. I can do them on the computer, and the next day they give the solution code. When I type in the code it tells me if I am right, or where I went wrong. If I still have blanks, it helps me fill them in by x-ing out wrong letters until I get it right. I have gotten to a point where I can do almost all of the puzzles now before the code comes out, except for the once a month Sunday extra, which is a cryptic. They also have a once a month Sunday extra that is an anacrostic - I really like these.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I used to do them online- but you had to pay- and recently it has seemed cheapier and handier to buy the paperback anthologies- which can be slipped in a pocket and brought out as necessary.