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Paddy Tobin

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1335 on: August 23, 2010, 11:49:34 AM »
Hans,

you are disturbing ancient and long forgotten memories from geography classes when I was a child.

A very interesting puzzle.

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Graham Catlow

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1336 on: August 23, 2010, 01:07:03 PM »
Well Hans,
Despite having done Geography and Geology to a high level at school and college I have never heard of Loess. Never heard of it or forgotten about it :-\ after all it was a long time ago. ::)
A good puzzle and one that had me searching through things I could remember and finding new things.

Well done.
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Who has the next one?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1337 on: August 23, 2010, 02:12:15 PM »
This one won't detain you long.

What connects these three 'walls'?   Only two tiny images.

A wall in the Gargano.
A wall in Alexandria, Virginia
Cornwall
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Cliff Booker
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1338 on: August 23, 2010, 03:48:58 PM »
The images are tiny for a purpose!   :D
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Cliff Booker
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1339 on: August 23, 2010, 04:14:40 PM »
Thank you all for your interest for my puzzle !

If anybody needs some Loess ...no problem  ;D

Robin :
I'm not so happy with my ground ...it is very fertil - but I need alway a very good drainage !
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1340 on: August 23, 2010, 07:23:28 PM »
Parietaria judaica?

An off-the-top-of-my-head guess.

Paddy
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1341 on: August 23, 2010, 07:49:37 PM »
Oh  ::)  i thought it was something to do with the rock used for the walls and came up with a Karst link!  ???
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1342 on: August 23, 2010, 08:11:34 PM »
Sorry Paddy and Robin!  This is a typically silly Bookerism.  

A little bit of whimsy really ... I'm not searching for a plant name or a rock type ... I need the Cornish connection?

... But I now realise that you can't possibly guess one without actually seeing the others, so here are the Gargano and Alexandria images in full.

The correct answer will arrive within seconds ...   :D
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Cliff Booker
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1343 on: August 23, 2010, 08:15:43 PM »
I can't see a pasty in either of them :P
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1344 on: August 23, 2010, 08:17:31 PM »
The mice would enjoy corn?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1345 on: August 23, 2010, 08:21:44 PM »
Getting warmer Gail ... :D
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Cliff Booker
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1346 on: August 23, 2010, 08:38:42 PM »
Mousehole a village in Cornwall

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1347 on: August 23, 2010, 08:50:42 PM »
Congratulations Graham!!!!


MOUSEHOLE, near PENZANCE, CORNWALL.

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Cliff Booker
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1348 on: August 23, 2010, 08:56:03 PM »
Hooray :D - got one at last ;D

Although I'm not sure I would have seen the mouse in the first photo had it not been for Gails suggestion.
Graham
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1349 on: August 23, 2010, 10:32:48 PM »
Well that is amazing because my garden, and much of South Canterbury and Otago, is over yellow clay called loess. It's what makes the Yellow River yellow. And I DO FIND OCCASIONAL CHUNKS OF ROCKY STUFF LOOKING JUST LIKE THOSE IN THE PUZZLE. I didn't make the connection. :-[ But then, I did say I'm no good at puzzles. :D
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