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John - hope this posting is not too late - your garden is fantastic and I really love the sculptures! Very well done you and my namesake!!!!

John (from Arran) have just viewed your garden and sculptures. Very beautiful and most interesting. Is there some influence of Henry Moore or B Hepworth in the work?

Thanks also for the courgette cake recipe. I probably wont make as I really dont bake cakes any more, now my children have left home and eating more cakes is the last thing I need!!

I still haven`t managed to get the racecourse clue. Have everything else. Consulted someone who bets regularly on horse racing but still couldn`t find the answer. Am I being thick? No, dont answer that!!

What a well spread out bunch we all are. Have a good weekend and see you next week for No 32!

Hi Mondrian,

Thanks for all for the warm messages about the garden. We had 45 visitors yesterday despite a heavy drizzle all day. Closed today but open again tomorrow when the weather is supposed to improve.

As for 18A; type the letters "far knoll wept" into http://anagram-solver.utsire.com/">this anagram solver and see what comes out.

Mondrian: 18a
This clue has a definite aquatic theme. Given that racecourses are often a park, we can dispense with the second word.
First word: 8 letters: Dipping for names in a church - brings water from below.
Hope this helps.

Another way is to go onto British Racecourses website and look at their map to find out the racecourse which fits the bill. I did this and I must say it is a course I have never heard of before.

Thank you John (from Arran), NIMROD and Q. I sort of got fontwell bit but couldn`t make any sense of it as I too have never heard of such a park.

By the way is the Nimrod name an RAF connection or an Elgar one?

Hope you get lots of garden visitors tomorrow, John. Regards to everyone

Jean d'A: Nous aimons bien votre jardin, Carla et moi, et nous esperons visiter l'isle d'Arran a l'avenir. Peut-etre c'est possible herberger avec vous? J'ai une amante et Carla a son ami... Ca fait 4 personnes, et notre entourage inclu 12 personnes de securite.

Hi Sarka,

Not being a French speaker, I resorted to Google, which translates this as:

We love your garden, Carla and me, and we hope to visit the Isle of Arran in the future. Maybe it's possible herberger with you? I have a lover and his friend Carla ... It's been four people, and our entourage included 12 people with security.

I think you probably meant to type heberger which translates as accommodate. Garden visitors are always welcome even a party of 12.

John d'A.

Just a warning (thinking of your lawn getting worn out etc.) ... I don't think that Sarko & Carla 'do' garden parties with groups limited to just 12.

http://q.liberation.fr/photo/id/57201/r/03/02/w/459/m/1277294660" alt="Sarko" hpsace=10>

JimC

With a babel-fish in my ear I'd say Google did a pretty good translation, though Sarko (possibly a cleverly disguised nom de plume de ma tante for Sarkozy?) would appear to be accompanied by 12 security personnel, and his wife Carla by her lover... Herberger was obviously a typo - even the office of the French head of state resorts to lunchtime bibbing and becomes fumble-fingered.

Maybe you've got a summerhouse you can shove some of them into?