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Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Tue Nov 28, 2017 11:45 am

Tinto63 wrote:That's the one Charles. Over to you and I didn't have to use the Franciscan clue.


Thanks. Proof my memory still works, if partially. :D

PW has reputedly the oldest of its kind.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Wed Nov 29, 2017 10:11 am

CharlesT wrote:
Tinto63 wrote:That's the one Charles. Over to you and I didn't have to use the Franciscan clue.


Thanks. Proof my memory still works, if partially. :D

PW has reputedly the oldest of its kind.


Time for a clue. This site is earlier than the much better known similar site on Mainland.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Thu Nov 30, 2017 10:00 am

Time again for the daily clue. The local stone provided readily available source material for construction.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:58 am

Is t Papa Westray where is the oldest stone house (reputedly) in Britain?
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:53 am

Sgurr wrote:Is t Papa Westray where is the oldest stone house (reputedly) in Britain?

It is and the house is the Knap of Howar, pre-dates Skara Brae.

Your go.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:22 pm

TC, famous over seas lived in C
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Sat Dec 02, 2017 9:12 pm

Sgurr wrote:TC, famous over seas lived in C

Over seas and On seas
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Sun Dec 03, 2017 11:52 am

Sgurr wrote:
Sgurr wrote:TC, famous over seas lived in C

Over seas and On seas


Thomas Cochrane (Lord Cochrane ) lived early years in Culross.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Sun Dec 03, 2017 6:47 pm

Correct. Your go Charles.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:36 am

Thanks.

A libation to S secured the fertility of L, so it is said.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:50 am

CharlesT wrote:Thanks.

A libation to S secured the fertility of L, so it is said.

Time for the daily clue.
S inhabits a watery domain.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Wed Dec 06, 2017 10:14 am

Daily clue time again.

The supplication to S was for an abundance of seaware. Hope that helps. :D
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Thu Dec 07, 2017 9:06 am

CharlesT wrote:Daily clue time again.

The supplication to S was for an abundance of seaware. Hope that helps. :D


L is better known for the discovery of some famous pieces.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Fri Dec 08, 2017 10:38 am

Ok, S may be mythical, but L is real and its inhabitants joined in a communal enterprise to produce the propitiatory offering to S.

Barring naming the subjects, I can do no more.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby garyoppolis » Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:34 pm

It's surely Seonaidh?

I got Lewis from the chessmen but the rest required quite a bit of googling.
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