Piers

A sunburst across the lens flares like an angel across the scene of a wooden bench by the shore of a lake. We can see trees either side, and the ripples made by the kind on the surface.

A sunny scene by the lake. Foreground is browning reeds and the beds extend round the sides. Trees front the horizon. The sky is blue, with small fluffy white clouds, and these are reflected in the lake waters below.

It’s lovely at the lake.

Loop, hoop, croup, swoop, dupe, troop, troupe, group, cantaloupe, loupe, droop, coop, scoop, whoop. I’m out.

Oh, no! What did Snoopy do to deserve that?!

I’ve been to the community notes for similar questions and it’s just people going ‘buy it elsewhere’. No, I can’t, it a used item at an attractive price. Very frustrating. Oh, well.

[soz!]

Pt: Doctor*! I have jelly and custard coming out of one ear, and cream and hundreds and thousands out the other! What’s wrong with me?

Doc: I think you’re a trifle deaf.

Don’t let earwax build up prevent you hearing well. Book a consultation today. www.earwax-gone.co.uk

*we are not doctors

No matter what other facilities they have, hotels shouldn't be eligible for more than three stars if there aren't plug sockets that allow you to charge things on your bedside table.

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Thank you!

First ad going into the local community association magazine for December.

Frankly mystifying that eBay needs me to verify my age to buy a scroll saw (given I’ve had an account since 2005) and cannot use a debit card to do so - but I don’t have a credit card and they don’t offer an alternative method so that’s a sale they’ve just lost a seller. Idiocy.

Couple of hours of creative juices flowing making and ordering car stickers for the business and also making and sending off an ad for the local magazine. Exciting! Now have a much bigger project, a double-sided A5 flyer. Need some food first, though.

Sonnets and elegies. They’re just elitist snobs and good riddance.

Oh, so sad!

All that blank verse and metre. Just out to cause mischief.

It didn’t like ‘Woozle’.

Strands #603
“Witch way?”
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Connections
Puzzle #869
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Top quizzing, Sminky.

9/10. Damn you, poets.

Hmph. American spelling.

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Morning! Yes, all good here. Glad to see you’re back.

A black cat is sitting upright on a beige lap mat with cartoon cats design.

A black cat is lying lad style on a pile of various coloured lap mats.

Anyone want a lap mat?
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I’ve gone to bed for a bit to see if it makes me feel less like eating all my furniture.

Winter has struck and I’m ready for bed. N’night, see you in the spring. [yawns]

The left hand owl is spare, if anyone wants to make an offer?

Never tell Cassie it’s not time to be fed. She’ll go out and kill a rat for you to prove her point.

I meant fried but same difference!

E1 S4 will, to start with, make you wonder if you’ve made a mistake but the cliffhanger is worth the wait.