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PUZZLE TIME
from EastLife July 2021
by Times Media
CRYPTIC PUZZLE NO. 10082
ACROSS
6. Putting in the fruit squash one’s to be quick (4,2,4). 8. Having got in front, one is pleased with oneself (4). 9. How the warder will speak to the prisoner who has it? (4). 10. Yours has a fi ne point (5). 11. Twist, but not Oliver (4). 12. Grapes one brought out for a
VIP (9). 16. Empty the sack (9). 20. Get the ticket in advance (4). 22. The nut clapped the accountant in jail (5). 23. A certain royal lady is outside (4). 24. It’s the head or tail of a cobra, miss (4). 25. The beauty with wrinkles to hide arrives (10).
DOWN
1. Herb does drill and there’s silver in it (6). 2. Look down on the boy with the mince-pies (7). 3. Are such sheets a weight on the bed? (6). 4. Waiting for the big noise to come in (6). 5. Cut to point, always (5). 7. Are tight and steal something (5). 13. It’s a double bend, you fool! (3). 14. Heightening as I run into the arena (7). 15. Keep shaking the vehicle (5). 17. Return from work (6). 18. A hundred and fi fty and a quarter is light (6). 19. Fish is a hothead and loud (6). 21. Is case it might be the piano room (5).
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PUZZLE NO. 82 SUDOKU
Puzzle answers on page 43
QUICK PUZZLE NO. 10082
ACROSS
6. Unfaithful (10) 8. Chaste (4) 9. Lobby (4) 10. Say (5) 11. River (Egypt) (4) 12. Girth (9) 16. Soden (9) 20. Gratis (4) 22. Clear (5) 23. Peck (4) 24. Code word for the letter ‘Z’ (4) 25. Trustworthy (10)
DOWN
1. Separate (6) 2. Torment (7) 3. Abut (6) 4. Marsh (6) 5. Tree (5) 7. Ruffl e (5) 13. Consume (3) 14. Bird (7) 15. Fish (5) 17. Receive (6) 18. Unaccomplished (6) 19. Simply (6) 21. Dodge (5)
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FLOWERS AND MORE Changing of the seasons
It’s the change of the seasons but there’s no time to relax... The dried flower revival is letting us get quirky and creative during The dried flower revival is letting us get quirky and creative during these colder months!
It has been pouring with rain, thunder and lightning are coming and going at their own will and it’s cold! There is little flowering in the garden for picking – it is that time of the year which feels strange with summer flowers, like cosmos, trying to be cheerful yet bulbs, such as earlicheer, starting to flower along with hellebores. I was, however, out trying to pick when heavy rain struck and I had to shelter in my She Shed.
My She Shed was developed last year in what was our shed for hand rearing calves for school Ag Days. Over summer I was hanging a lot of flowers and foliage for drying there but it is now too cold and open. Instead, I have taken over our hot water cupboard which is full of roses hanging from my clothes drying rack – no room for drying clothes anymore!
This is the first year I’ve dried flowers. When they started to make a comeback, the concept took me back to my younger days of dusty, very average looking displays. What is available now is so vastly different, it’s like night and day.
At The Wild Rose we have dried and preserved flowers from Japan, China, Europe and Australia. Some of the preserved rose heads are of such good quality it’s hard to tell the difference between a living rose and a preserved one. These sit alongside locally grown flowers and foliage which are also dried.
I grew strawflowers over summer for the first time. They grew to be taller than me and flowered over so many months but, finally, they had to make way for spring bulbs in my picking garden. The last of them I dried and it is hard to tell if they are fresh or dried which makes them such a versatile flower to grow.
I also grew bunny tails, however these grew to be about knee high to a grasshopper, albeit that there were a lot of “tails” on each plant. When my father rang to ask if I would like him to pick some while he was at the beach I was delighted. My mother wasn’t, she cursed the bunches of bunny tails drying at her house. I am even more delighted now that there is a worldwide shortage of bunny tails – can you believe it!
I know the dried flower revival will come to an end, but while it’s here I am totally embracing it. I love that you can be quirky and creative; at The Wild Rose we are putting dried flowers in terrariums and large egg cups which are perfect for the ‘not so perfect’ flowers.
In the fresh flower world it is all about stem length and being long and beautiful. In the real world, and just like us, not all fit this mould. Dried flowers and their many uses are just right for the ‘non-perfect’ in the flower world, and for that I love them as that is exactly what I grow in my garden.
bulbs in my picking garden. The last of them I dried and it is hard to tell if they are fresh or dried which makes them such a versatile flower to grow.
I also grew bunny tails, however these grew to be about knee high to a grasshopper, albeit that there were a lot of “tails” on each plant. When my father rang to ask if I would like him to pick some while he was at the beach I was delighted. My mother wasn’t, she cursed the bunches of bunny tails drying at her house. I am even more delighted now that there is a worldwide shortage of bunny tails – can you believe it!
I know the dried flower revival will come to an end, but while it’s here I am totally embracing it. I love that you can be quirky and creative; at The Wild Rose we are putting dried flowers in terrariums and large egg cups which are perfect for
Melanie Kennerley
Melanie Kennerley, Master of Science (1st Hons), DIP and Interflora qualified florist, local business woman.
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