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A charming story emerged in the news this week about a lost love letter penned by a former Australian Prime Minister.
Ros Mills, a 74 year old Tasmanian woman was renovating a cottage that was once the residence of Joseph Lyons and his wife Dame Enid during the early years of their marria ... read more
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As crossword solvers, you will be only too familiar with the synonym, the most common form of crossword clue, a word that means the same as another. Big and large, small and little, topic and theme ... read more
Yea! We've just had the Budget announced in Australia, to the inevitable wailing of baffled interest groups and the whirring of spin placed on it by competing political groups. Did I mention there's a national election coming up within months?
So this made me think of the terms wh ... read more
In case you weren’t aware from the junk mail catalogues clogging up your mailbox, this Sunday the 12th May is Mother’s Day in Australia. While regular readers of this blog will know I’m usually no fan of ‘Hallmark’ holidays, I have to confess I’m kind of OK wit ... read more
Readers of Lovatts puzzle magazines often send in funny misprints from church bulletins. I suspect they’re written at the last minute. Maybe the parish priest or vicar is preparing ... read more
I am unashamed YouPlayers, in making this post all about ME. You see, I have some problems of the culinary kind - and I need your help!
It seems that I have lost my kitchen mojo – and while I have searched far and wide - in the backseat of the car, under the bed, even in the mysteri ... read more
I'm making a creme for my souffle, my coffee's in the cafetiere, the pate comes from the cafe, the decor of which betokens an elite chateau ambience. While the attache has written a communique in detail, with detachment far from mediocre, I've made a flambe of a kepi and epee, just fo ... read more
Just because you all enjoyed this Sudoku tutorial blog post so much, today I thought we'd take a look at ADDOKU.
Addoku is a variant of ... read more
The YouPlay Easter Hunt for 2013 has sadly come to an end. After another epic competition I would like to congratulate all our winners :
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Some of the expressions we use regularly don’t seem to make any sense. We hear them being used but rarely stop to think about where they come from.
For instance, To make no bones (as in, “Waiter, I’ll have tomato soup and make no bones about it…”) mean ... read more
Grab your biggest basket (and some chocolate treats for sustenance) - the annual YouPlay Easter Egg Hunt is now open, and there are fantastic prizes to be WON!
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I've had a passion for solving puzzles since I was a teenager, but for a long time I was terrified about trying anything new. Being a 'word nerd' I always assumed I'd fail spectacularly at anything other than Crosswords or Word Puzzles, especially if numbers were involved.
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