Pub Quiz thread

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colognehornet said:
Either they told them that the holy grail was in Berlin or........they bought all of the World's tea supplies to England (apparently not Japanese tea, but all others) in order to keep up morale.
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The latter it is... <applause>

Not only did drinking tea remind the soldiers of home, it also masked the taste of water that had been transported in old oil drums...

Over to you.
 
oldfrenchhorn said:
Who received £37,000 for her poetry?
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A Rushed Account of the Dew

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I who can blink
to break the spell of daylight

and what a sliding screen between worlds
is a blink

I who can hear the last three seconds in my head
but the present is beyond me
listen

in this tiny moment of reflexion
I want to work out what it’s like to descend
out of the dawn’s mind

and find a leaf and fasten the known to the unknown
with a liquid cufflink
and then unfasten

to be brief

to be almost actual

oh pristine example
of claiming a place on the earth
only to cancel
 
yorkshirehornet said:
A Rushed Account of the Dew

Read more
I who can blink
to break the spell of daylight

and what a sliding screen between worlds
is a blink

I who can hear the last three seconds in my head
but the present is beyond me
listen

in this tiny moment of reflexion
I want to work out what it’s like to descend
out of the dawn’s mind

and find a leaf and fasten the known to the unknown
with a liquid cufflink
and then unfasten

to be brief

to be almost actual

oh pristine example
of claiming a place on the earth
only to cancel
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Beautiful..... Alice Oswald
 
Quite correct Yorkie. She won the International Griffin poetry prize for her collection Falling Awake.

That didn't last long. Over to you.
 
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