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?
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?
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 … ?
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Oh, JUST as A thought, Debbi: you should be able to hit “Show Character Palette In Menu Bar,” from The Keyboard Preferences pane.
ReplyDeleteI’m on Big Sur: where they call it ‘Input Source’
Oh, and before I forget, again!
ReplyDeleteTomorrow’s a ten question set: it’s part of a — ahem — matched pair … …
1 21st June
ReplyDelete2 Baptist
3 Michaelmas
4 Athens
5 Cambridge
Q1) The 21st
ReplyDeleteQ2) John the Baptist
Q3) Christmas (25th December)
Q4) Athens
Q5) Cambridge
I'm pleased things went well. Rats now? Perhaps the council would do something if there is a problem in that part of town...
Oh, no!! Well, if you insist ... :)
ReplyDelete1. the 21st
2. Baptist
3. Lady Day
4. Athens
5. Cambridge
I actually (finally) figured that out! £ See! :)
ReplyDelete1.June 21st
2. Baptist
3. September 21st
4. Rhodes
5. Oxford
Wow, those videos are different.