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Grunger

Pleased to hear from you - trust you`re prancing around the local park regularly - I`m a bit bored with taking the same route every day.

Grunger

Very pleased you are back and keeping busy with exercising, baking and....eating?

Malone

Yes I notice you help with the Private Eye crossword. You must find some of the clues rather distasteful, so it is very sporting of you to offer hints. Do you write anything for that publication? Some of your stuff here is good enough for it. I read it occasionally.

Jigjag,

The Private Eye crossword can be quite entertaining - as well as the occasional rudeness, I like the irreverence! It's a fortnightly publication, I probably would tire of it if I tackled it every week.

Today's Times Cryptic had another - yet another - of my eyebrow-raising clues...

Action English novelist mentioned (3)

...and yes, I know it probably works perfectly well for much of England, but it completely fails for me!

I agree, malone - I pronounce my Rs - but it at least makes sense of this quote:
Jaw, jaw is better than war, war
Often attributed to Churchill but actually said, in this form, by Harold Macmillan (Churchill had previously said something a bit similar).

Thanks, ChrisE.

I've never liked that quote very much - probably because 'jaw, jaw', talk, seems so, so dated now!

it was the 50s when he said it!

ChrisE, yes I know - but people have quoted it for decades afterwards, whereas I feel it should have disappeared along with antimacassars, blancmange, Liberty bodices.... It's not a quote that resonates very well now, whereas the best quotes are timeless ('One small step...', for example.)

Armstrong fluffed that one, malone - it should have been "one small step for a man". (He insists that's what he did say, but I don't believe him.)

I preferred the quote from the commander of the second landing - "that might have been a small step for Neil, but it wasn 't for me!"

I picked a poor quote, ChrisE- the error in that is as famous as the event! If I'd thought a bit longer, harder, I might have come up with "They think it's all over..."
I liked your follow-up quote,I'd never seen that one before.

Malone

Congratulations on making the 2,000th posting. "One small step for a woman, one giant leap for Pedants". I expect this to be quoted many years from now!