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Quiz for video exercises brain cells • Letters to the Link.
We received 54 entries for The Link excellent com petition. We thoroughly Dog problems Road destruction
magazine cryptic clues quiz published enjoyed thinking the answers through.
in the Decemberedition, some arriving More of the same would be fantastic." From Mrs B of Grange Park From Mr J Adams of Bllomsbury
within moments of the draw taking Sadly, we had only three prizes to I live in Grange Park, and like Close, Freshbrook
place. offer in return for all the hard work, many other areas around Why was a connecting road built
We must admit it was a tough one compliments of Video Solent at the Swindon, our pathways, verges between Shaw and Freshbrook?
and couldn't complete it ourselves. West Swindon Centre. and walkways are absolutely What was wrong with the old
(We were given the answers just The lucky people who had their disgusting, and are almost unfit countryside road which passed
before the closing date. ) On the forms drawn out by Video Solent for human beings especially via Lydiard Mansion?
completed forms, questions 22 and manageress Sandra Kirby are: children to walk along. Why? The new road is badly sited
26 caught quite a few people out. Christine Howe of Birdcombe Road, Because of the dog owners of the and rarely used.
One entrant shouted at us from his Westlea, who receives a brand new world. They must be a breed Why destroy yet another old
car after delivering his form to The pre-recorded video film; apart. Why do they let their dogs meadow for car-lazy people and
Link address, "It's a lot to ask for a Christine Willis, Aldborough Close, foul up the pathways and contraceptive tarmac?
video!" Eastleaze - two free new release video walkways like this, surely they Editors Note: The road replacing
Another triumphantly wrote on his rentals;
form, "Drove me crazy, but I got the David Harris, Ascham Road, must walk in 'it' as well when Hay Lane has been built to
lot.' Grange Park - one free new release they take their dogs for a walk. provide access to the new housing
Why! Oh! Why! can't they let areas at The Prinnels, the green
E.A. Maloney of Freshbrook video rental.
included a note of thanks. "What an their dogs have their own patch fields on either side of the new
in their own garden. Is this really road which are to be built upon.
For all the readers driven to varying levels of frustration and despair, here are too much to ask, so as to keep the Hay Lane, which Mr Adams must
the correct answers: lovely area we have to live in admit was pretty dangerous will
1. 90=DinaRA Degrees in a Right Angle around here healthy for everyone be turned into a footpath route.
2. 11=PinaFT Players in a Football Team including owners of dogs,
3. 1=WonaUC Wheel on a Uni-cycle because quite frankly at the
4. 3=BM(Sl-ITR) Blind Mice (See How They Run) moment we all take a terrible The Windmill Pub
5. 13= Son theAF Stripes on the American Flag health risk every time we simply From Cathy Baker of Loughborough
6. 147=MBinS Maximum Break in Snooker take a stroll. Close, Grange Park (who was
7. 21=DonaD Dots on a Dice Personally, on the path outside featured on the cover of the September
8. 24=BBBinaP Black Birds Baked in a Pie our house, it is sometimes edition)
9. 28=DinF(ELY) Days in February (Except Leap Year) impossible to walk because of The Windmill Pub (formerly The
10. 3=MinaB Men in a Boat dogs dirt. I have rung the Cornflower) at Freshbrook has
11. 32 = DF at which WF Degrees Fahrenheit at which Water Environmental Health Depart- been re-open now for
Freezes
12. 1=PinaPT Partridge in a Pear Tree ment several times, and although approximately three months, and
13. 10,000 = M belonging they are sympathetic there is not I think the general opinion is that
to GOD of Y Men belonging to Grand Old Duke of a thing they can do, unless I stand its change of image has been a
York with my camera and take a success.
14. 2,000-PinaTTB Perforations in a Tetley Tea Bag photograph of the actual deed I might add that with my two
15. 7=Wof the AW Wonders of the Ancient World taking place, then I could get daughters doing so many
16. 9=Pin the SS Planets in the Solar System Legal Action taken against the activities after school these days,
17. 15=MonaDMC Men on a Dead Man's Chest offender. Even our local Labour and the cold winter weather, it is
18. 40=DTatD Double Top at Darts Councillor can't do anything to a haven for people like me who
19. 22=YtoaCP Yards to Cricket Pitch help. have half an hour to kill in
20. 99=lC with aF Ice Cream with a Flake So is "Highlighting the Freshbrook.
21. 21=SinaG Shillings in a Guinea Problem" (The Link no 93 - You will find me in the
22. 40,000 = F on a TT Feathers on a Thrush's Throat December 1989) the answer? I Children's Bar with my son
23. 2=GBinaB Game Birds in a Brace don't think it is, but I can sipping orange juice and
24. 5=EB made F Enid Blyton Made Famous understand the frustration and watching cartoons on the T.V. at
25. 6=SonaC Sides on a Cube anger these people are going least once a week. It is a half-way
26. 8 = SW plus SD Snow White plus Seven Dwarfs through, because I feel the same. house if you like - Oh! that would
27. 10=Cin the B Commandment in the Bible The law or licensing has to be make a nice name. Perhaps I
28. 14=PinaS Pounds in a Stone altered and adhered to by dog ought to write and let the Brewery
29. 26=MinaM Miles in a Marathon owners. The time has come when know. They will probably want
30. 14= Lin aS(byWS) Lines in a Sonnet (by William
Shakespeare) we can't sit back and let this go on to re-decorate the Pub in a couple
31. 8=Tonan0 Tentacles on an Octopus any longer, something has to be of years, and it seems only fitting
32. 3=CinaF Coins in a Fountain done quickly. that they should continue the
33. 26=Lin the A Letters in the Alphabet trend and change the name as
34. 12=Sin the Z Signs in the Zodiac well! Mind you in our household
35. 10= GBH on the W Green Bottles Hanging on the Wall Letters should be sent to we call the Pub something
36. 76 = T led the BP Trombones led the Big Parade The Link, 13 Castle Dore, different every time we mention
it. The Cornflower! The
Freshbrook, Swindon by
And here's one more from Mr Fleming of Toothill - 24=C in PG. Answer Winflower!! The Cornmill!! no -o-
on the opposite page. the 20th of the month not
not quite right yet - Ah! that's it
THE WINDMILL.
For Sale: Double Electric Train set For Sale: Two childrens BMX style
plus accessories £80. bicycles for 5/6 years. £20 each. Sparcells Under 5 Playgroup Greendown Playgroup has a
Ice Hockey Skates, size 12 £15 Tel: 872282 require an experienced supervisor vacancy for a playg roup assistant.
LARGE Snooker table/legs £30 to help a new playgroup start, Four mornings (Monday,
Sack Trolley £10 Items for sale can be advertised in hopefully by March. Please write Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Wheelbarrow £15 The Linkat 15p per word, inclusive with details of experience and 9.15a.m. - 12.15p.m.
Mini Metro roof-rack plus trailer of VAT. Cash with sale to The Link,
hitch £25 13 Castle Dore, Freshbrook, qualifications to 7 Rinsdale Close, Apply to Mrs Goddard 874748.
Tel: 495140 eves/weekends Swindon by 20th of the month. Sparcells by 20 January.
Elsie Hazel Court Group Dwelling Clothing Alterations & Repairs.
in Freshbrook has a large quantity Tel: 872096 Responsible person required to take elderly placid dog for midday
of newspaper for re-cycling. Ring Mrs. White, Freshbrook walk. Old Shaw Lane area, 10 minutes, Monday - Thursday. Tel
873040 to collect. 876132 after 600p.m.