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Hi, Rusty!
Can you still buy Keillers Butterscotch? I haven't come across it for a long time.
Actually, I don't much like jam either!
The only time I would eat it is if I were having a Cornish Cream tea! and then I prefer damson or plum jam!
Goodness, Naomi Broady certainly is tall! I thought my girls were tall at 5'10"
Is she taller than her brother, Liam?
Any more news of the tennis?
I haven't had the time to try to find it on the BBC Sports Channel.
I have finished my Jeffrey Archer novel.
His next book will be the last in the series.
I think it is out at the end of this year.
Amazon usually email me, once it is time to "pre-book".
Oh, and they sent me an email today to say that "Centennial" is on its way from the US!

Streets (and presumably docks etc) are sometimes named after people or places from so many years ago the origin has been forgotten.
There is a street in Sunderland named after my gt grandfather who was a founder member of the Co-op Movement there and served on the committee for decades.
In Birkenhead there is Tetbury Street. I wouldn't be surprised if I am the only person to know why- except those I've told, of course! John Cook started a brewery in Tetbury in 1800. He had quite a few sons and two of them went to Birkenhead when it was a boom town to start a brewery there.
The building is now a Honda showroom, in Tetbury Street! There must be many stories like that.

I don't like marmelade either, elle. I planted a damson tree to make jam but can't be bothered to stone the fruit these days. Sometimes make damson gin to give away.

Good morning, Elle!
I do not eat sweets so I can't help with the Butterscotch.
Wonder why "butterscotch"?
I do not know about Naomi's brother.
She beat Laura Robson, though.
And Murray won, too. And the Williams sisters.
Info from BBC website, which is archaic to say the least.
Stories several days old still prominently placed.
The website could do with a revamp.
Raspberry jam is my favourite.
Hope you get on fine with the setter today!

Good morning Elle
Have a look at the blogger's comment here regarding 8a and one of the comments further down.

http://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1584808.html#comments

Good morning, Rusty!
Another lovely day! "Fresh" out at the moment!
An enjoyable brisk walk!
Have you been out for your paper yet?
I see from the BBC sports website this morning that we have five Brits through now.....that is good.
A pity about Heather Watson and Bedene.
I read that Heather was ill?
And Bedene was beaten by your man Nick Kyrgios.
I shall do a further "study" later!
Do you have plans for the day?



Ah , Eirlys!
Yes, I have read that....all very similar to what I originally started out saying yesterday!
And now perhaps it is time to put the bone down....?
I think this has been worked to death!

Hi, Ros!
That is quite an honour for your grandfather to have a street name after him!
A claim to fame!
My maiden name is after the district in which I was born.
The name of the district was distorted by use, but originally was named after a well in the rea.
I think the reasoning is that the family descendants were keepers of the well.
Far more prosaic and humdrum than for your grandfather!!

I love damsons!
We have a plum tree in our garden but it is too tall and the birds get the plums before we do!

Hello, Elle,
Main task for the day completed,
I attended a funeral.
It has rained during the night and is still cloudy and not warm!
Pity BBC would not show "highlights' from US tennis, or ITV4.
I do not know about Heather other than she lost her match.
A pity!

Hi elle
I think keeping a well would be very important- everyone in the area's lives would have depended on it.

I doubt anyone who lives in the terrace (I've remembered it's not street, but a terrace!) nows who it was called after. But no matter, it is nice.

Anyone wanting a serious challenge should try syzygy's WSJ one. The preamble is enough to call for matron!

Hi, Rusty!
I am very sorry to hear that you had to go to a funeral this morning.
Was it for a family member, or an old friend or neighbour?
Time was, when one would meet up with family, friends and acqaintances at weddings, then it would be at christenings........ and now it's at funerals.
Sadly, this occurs all too frequently these days, doesn't it?
Life is suddenly galloping along as one gets older!
Life is short - and precious!
We should make the most of it whilst we have it, and remember to cherish those whom we love and care about.
On a lighter note, I have nearly finished today's QC without a single query so far!
I have read that Heather Watson is awaiting blood test results , taken as a result of her feeling ill while playing the other day.
One possibility is the return of the glandular fever from which she suffered previously.
I am sorry about your weather!

One of my ancestors, a mariner, signed a document in 1617 in Poole, (Dorset) granting the use of his well (and of the water therein) to two people. The well was erected on his land and he granted "egresse and regresse" to it through a path in the grounds.