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Hi, Rusty!
I expect your grandson has already been to visit you by now, if he was heading out to visit his girlfriend , too, afterwards.
How lovely that he came to see you en route.
You will have enjoyed seeing him!
I missed Laura's race! although I see from the summary that she won it!
I may be able to find a clip somewhere, so that I can watch it.
Asha Philips did well, too, winning her fourth successive national 60 m title.
Cindy Ofili won the Gold in the 60 m hurdles, with Kat Johnson Thompson coming second.
I've only watched bits and pieces....
I have "The Voice" to watch later ......

Good evening, Elle!
Yes, great seeing my grandson!
He brought me a giant bag of crisps!
Not seen Laura's race, too, but I think it should be up on YouTube fairly soon.
Meantime, here is Laura on language!
You never know, Elle, these words may come in handy in a puzzle sometime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN6xamPJ7Uc

And....I know them all!

Hi, Rusty!
I've looked on YouTube, but not found the relevant race yet.....perhaps it is too soon?
I found Laura difficult to understand on that clip ...... it reminded me of talking to my cousin from Kirkintilloch!
I only recognised "dreich".....you haven't used that for a while?
I shall add these words to my 'little black book'........
There was a Cockney rhyming slang clue in the February Times Monthly!
I got the answer, but still haven't fully parsed it!

Hello, Elle!
Maybe a bit soon for it to be on YouTube, Elle.
Maybe rules about that sort of thing?
I have had no call to use "dreich" for a while, my weather has been mostly cold but bright and sunny.
I did not know "dinghied"!
I knew the rest and quite a lot that are not there.
I sometimes have to translate my sayings for the young ones!
They call them "granddadisms".
I have never came across the Times Monthly.
It sounds tough?

Out of interest......


https://australianmuseum.net.au/.../what-are-the-differences-between-ants-and-termites

Hi, Rusty!
Well, it has certainly been "fell dreich" here over the last few days!
A good job I had patched both my wellies and my walking boots!
Yes, the Times Monthly is indeed very hard - leastways it is for me!
But I enjoy it!
I find I need to do a lot of research...but I learn a lot in the process.
Sometimes, I find answers...but cannot always parse the results!
At other times, I arrive at the answer through the parsing.....
It keeps me on my toes!


Hello, Pigale!
The link didn't work...it said "Page not found"!

*sorry about this -
Its a little bit of info entitled
'what are the differences between ants and termites'

If you type this on Google, you should get to the page.

Where are my manners?

Hello Elle and Rusty (belatedly!)

You are right about the amount of research involved in the
Club Monthly Special! I need the whole month to have a chance
to complete it when I am lucky!

Thank you, Pigale!

Try this
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/insects/what-are-the-differences-between-ants-and-termites/

I wonder will it work?

This is the point I was trying to make about 12 across in today's Times Cryptic….

This is it! that was the link I was trying to forward on to you -
Wonder why it did not work?

Anyway, as far as I can see, it confirm what I thought: ants are NOT
termites! in fact they even eat them.