please empty your brain below

Just one answer each, please.

19: Rockall - only 23 left to do!

23 Scilly Isle

dg writes: Sorry - not in the Shipping Forecast

5. Dogger

3: Cromarty

10. Dover

24) faroes (sic)

23. Fairisle

7. German Bight

15) Lundy

22) Bailey

16. Fastnet

11) Wight

8. Humber

13) Trafalgar

Gosh, has no-one really done number 1?

1: Viking.

2. Forties

14) Sole

9. Thames

4) Forth

11) Wight

17) Irish Sea?

Sorry, hadn't noticed someone had already got Wight.

21) Hebrides? (groan)

6) Fisher?

18. Shannon?

12 Biscay

20 Malin

Sailing By

AND NOW THE SHIPPING FORECAST ANSWERS ISSUED BY DIAMOND GEEZER, ON BEHALF OF THE MARITIME AND COASTGUARD AGENCY, AT 1145 ON SUNDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2007

1] Viking
North Utsire
South Utsire
2] Forties
3] Cromarty
4] Forth
5] Dogger
6] Fisher
7] German Bight
8] Humber
9] Thames
10] Dover
11] Wight
Portland
Plymouth
12] Biscay
13] Trafalgar
FitzRoy
14] Sole
15] Lundy
16] Fastnet
17] Irish Sea
18] Shannon
19] Rockall
20] Malin
21] Hebrides
22] Baily
23] Fair Isle
24] Faeroes
Southeast Iceland

I hate you people.

I have still never answered one of these correctly and first.

18. "Phwoar my pants" is the correct answer.

11 could have been Rockall as well....

There's something poetical and evocative about the names of shipping forecast areas. I'm also glad to be snugly tucked up in bed at 5:05am when I hear Plenty, Colville, Brett, Kaipara, Raglan, Stephens, Cook, Castlepoint, Portland, Abel, Grey, Milford, Puysegur, Foveaux, Chalmers, Rangitata, Conway, Chatham Islands.

Oh yes, thank you, childhood memories; when we only had one radio in the house tuned to Home or Light and NO TV. Happy days. Worker's playtime, Life with the Lyons, Journey into Space and Wakee Wakee!

Great Aunt Annie: are you my Aunty Annie in Havelock North?! It's little Addie G here, Barbara's boy from Wellington.

I have several nephews with unusual names, but none called Flash I regret to say. I went to Havelock North once, in the spring. It was very beautiful. Had a great pizza there.

Hi Great Aunt Annie
Yes, I think you'd remember if you had a sister called Barbara, too. Well done H Nth on the pizza. They do do food well there.











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