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Every year there is a New Year’s Day concert from Vienna from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein. This year the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra subjected themselves to daily Covid testing in order to perform the annual concert albeit without an audience in the beautiful hall. Riccardo Muti conducted as he has done several times before. T […]

Thank you to Beatie who passed on this puzzle with acknowledgement to the Reigate Park magazine where she found it.

There are 30 books of the Bible in this paragraph.

Can you find them? (Answers next month)

This is a most remarkable puzzle. It was found by a gentleman in an airplane seat pocket on a flight from Los Angeles to Ho […]

During these strange pandemic times when we cannot meet as usual and have to find other than usual ways to support charities we are regularly reminded the charities are still here ,active and needing our help The RNLI is shown to very positive effect on regular TV programmes reminding us of the wonderful work they do . We see the crews o […]

Beatie has made a very good suggestion.She can remember a very special Christmas and wondered if anyone else has special memories. Considering how strange was Christmas 2020 it would be good to hear memories of happy times. Maybe family traditions which happened every year or particular family or friends who joined for Christmas. Some ma […]

As of today, the 13th November, there is just six weeks to Christmas. It goes without saying we are in such troubled times that the thought of Christmas is greeted with both dread and hope. For Christians, the birth of Christ was also a time of dread and hope; – but I guess traditionally, at least recently, we have focussed on the hope […]