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Blimey! This blog is getting enormously popular! I too am stuck on 8a.

Have made courgette cake and it was delicious - got it from a book of Australian cake recipes - also made beetroot cake which was nicer than it sounded! Last week had plain cake soaked in elderflower cordial and suger mixture - lovely! Am off to lavender farm in Cotswold at weekend to sample lavender scones. What!!!! So I like cake...

Hi oldgal,

I like the sound of the elderflower cake, a bit like lemon drizzle cake. Did you get 8A yet?

Hi all,
Finally 'got'8 across. Thanks to John(from Arran) and although 84 now I learned about regularly,oddly,evenly which probably explained why I often couldn't see how The correct answer was produced.
I too enjoyed the photographs of the gardens (not snaps) and was tickled pink by the stone
armchair at Glen View.
Will be visiting Arran now on Global Earth -
if I can find it.
Keep smiling.

Old Gal - 8a, the key word is cormorants, not in the fact that the word is a clue, but the structure of the letters in the word. Then go back to the comments of John from Arran.
John from Arran - As an amateur gardener, I can only hold my hands up and say "magnificent" - what lovely gardens!

Hi John,Lovely photos from Arran.Spent some happy holidays there as a child!

John and Nimrod - thanks, have solved the clue finally. And thanks, John, for your tip on regularly - will look out for this in future.

Have a good weekend everyone - no doubt will talk next week!

flipper2law,sir: many congratulations on mental agility at 84 which shames most of us of greener years (me 68, and pissed off at being classed as elderly...), but explain, pray, the pseudonym. Flipper2law? No, I don't get it.

My own, though deliberately ambiguous, needs the Rob to be read as a verb - or injunction; no way can it be a noun, though properly it may be...

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.