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Rosalind

Thanks for the info on banns - I dont think I have ever heard any read.

Malone

I think I am fit for the kitchenette rather than the spinning-house, whatever that is. At cricket I am a spinner, but the odd wag has to refer to a female spinner as a spinster, probably better than a spinneress though.

grunger

I read a report some time ago about a ladies cricket team with a sinister spinster spinner. It might have been you.

Forget 'spinneress'; the entirely acceptable 'seamstress' could have a legitimate bowling connotation in cricket.

Paul

Nice idea but I dont think seamstress and spinster will catch on in cricket. We just say seamer and spinner.

Incidentally, older ladies pronounce it sem-stress here. I dont know about other parts of the country.

jigjag

It wasn't me. I am only 2 of those. I think the "sinister" must apply to left arm bowlers, possibly chinamen.

Grunger

How about Spinneret? Apparently it`s what a spider uses to spin its web - there`s also a Spinnerette - she only bowls in short spells!

Tyke

Thats clever - I like it!

Sempster and sempstress are both listed in my Chambers as equivalent to seamster and seamstress. I have heard these used here in Scotland but it was a long time ago. I have a nagging feeling that there is another word with a similar construction but I cannot for the life of me remember it (if it even exists).

parallelogram

thanks for that - a silent "P". Next time I hear an old lady say "sem-stress", I will ask her how she spells it, seamstress or sempstress.

tyke

congrats on winning battle of the Rovers

Grunger

Thanks - very pleased to hang on for the win - I watched it live on FA Player, which is new to me but free! Hope we get an easy draw next ... Everton or Man Utd will do!

Morning.

A clue from yesterday's Times puzzle triggered off some grumping and grouching from me....

Free novel initially enjoyed by fashionable young man (8)

Not too tricky, but put out of your mind any novels written in the last 133 years.