Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 24-6-2021: Midsummer.

24th June, 2021.

Yep: I’ve officially had polyps removed.

Which was … um … fun!

Especially when you consider where the camera was, and what the medical team were doing with a … you know … thing!

At any rate … ?

The procedure went well enough: rapid, and relatively painless.

The worst part of it … ?

Was the trip home in the ambulance.

Due to an accident on the A127?

A thirty minute trip home took two hours.

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Hey ho!

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Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga*, Mum†, Debbi‡ and Edith^ putting in their answers: with Olga, Debbi and Mum, scoring five out of five, and Edith on four.

The day also saw Trevorª leaving us a message.

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the How To, License and video … 

Q1)        Some people in England will mark 24th June as Midsummer’s Day.   The Summer Solstice is usually on which day in June: the 17th, the 19th, or the 21st?

Q2)        Midsummer’s Day is also the feast day of Saint John the what: Gardener, Baptist or Cheese-wright?

Q3)        In England, Midsummer’s Day is also one of four quarter days: a day when school terms started, and rents were due. Name one of the other three.

Q4)        Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set where: Athens, Thessalonika or Rhodes?

Q5)        Finally?   Midsummer Common is where: Bristol, Cambridge or Oxford?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        Sun Quan named himself emperor of Eastern Wu: on 23rd June, 229AD. Eastern Wu is now part of which country: India, Thailand or China?

A1)        China.

Q2)        The US Senate rejected the Taft-Hartley Act on 23rd June, 1947. The Act restricted powers of what: the Police, Unions or the press?

A2)        Unions.

Q3)        23rd June is International what Day: Widow’s Day, Warrior’s Day or Wizard’s Day?

A3)        Widow’s Day.

Q4)        NASA’s Space Station Processing Facility opened on 23rd June, 1994. The Facility built things for what: the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station or the James Town Moon Base?

A4)        International Space Station. (The Shuttle was retired in 2011. James Town is fictional.)

Q5)        23rd June, 1912, saw the birth of computer scientist, Alan Turing. His face is going to be on a new what: 1st class stamp, a £50 note or a cheque?

A5)        A £50 note.

Here’s a thought … 

“If we shadows have offended,

Think but this, and all is mended,

That you have but slumber’d here

While these visions did appear.”


Puck: from Act V, scene I, of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

And some Mendelssohn …

Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.

Feel free to share today’s video Teaser.

Have a good day.

*        Cheers, Olga: I managed to correct the mistake!

As for Clarion … I think you’re right … no, I know you’re right!   We’re starting to get issues with rats in some flats: getting in through the communal piping.   I phoned Clarion.   Their view?   Is that rats in individual flats are the problems of the residents.   It’s only if the things are in communal areas — where there’s no food! — that it becomes Clarion’s issue.   It sounds like I have to get my own rat trap … for a rat that’s coming through Clarion’s bit of the building … 

Clarisse, the woman I spoke to?   Could’ve acted a little less arrogantly when telling me this.

Yes, I have given Piers, the journalist, a call: but there’s not much he can do, until it can be shown that rats are in the communal areas!

Oh, the procedure went well … bar the traffic.   And, boy, I was glad I had some tinned ravioli, indoors: I needed food, quick, when I got home!

†        Hello, Mum!

‡        That’s nice of you to say so, Debbi, it really is!   Did you read my comment to Olga, today?   The rat problem we have is going to cause issues, I think.   And it’s going to take a while sorting it out!

Um … I put the Character Palette into the Menu Bar: you should be able to do the same thing, and drag and drop the £ symbol from there.

If I’m right, though?   You should be able to hit Option (⌥) and 3 — where the # sign is — to get the pound sign.

^        It’s a good tune, isn’t, Edith?   I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Apparently, though?   She did three videos for the song: there’s one for the UK, another for the US, and the third is the one we saw, yesterday.   They do something similar with the Ketchup Song: there’s one for Europe — in a Spanish beach bar, with some women wearing bikinis, and men in shorts — and another for the Middle East, where they prefer people to be more modestly dressed.

Oh, they do the wobbly knee thing in both!

ª        I know the place, Trevor: or of it, at any rate.   If I recall correctly, the Fremen are supposed to plant tough grasses on one side of a dune, to anchor them.   Which — if I remember the interviews I’ve read, correctly — is the bit Herbert lifted directly from the project: it was supposed to delay coastal erosion, wasn’t it … ?