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Thursday: Miss MaryDoll’s Truly, Tricky (or not), Testing, Tantalising Maths Teaser..

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Marydoll Thu 30-Apr-20 10:16:49

Good morning all, sorry I'm late, my creaky joints were giving me gyp!

I have been gentle today, so hopefully some newcomers will have a go.

Remember not to post the answers, to allow others to have a go. Feel free to PM, if you want to know if you have the correct answer.

Feelingmyage55 Thu 30-Apr-20 11:40:51

pantglas. Did your husband only wear ............. not going to finish.?

Puzzler61 Thu 30-Apr-20 11:45:48

Feelingmyage55 - that’s such a good excuse/reason for making a cake! I’m gonna bake one now cos’ it’s Capt. Tom’s centenary birthday ? ? ?. Happy Baking all who are doing similar today.

Puzzler61 Thu 30-Apr-20 11:47:07

What flavour /sort of cake do you think is Capt Tom’s favourite?

Doodle Thu 30-Apr-20 11:50:51

We cud have baking class in skul. I like cake.
Miss can we do bakin insted of gym? ?

Puzzler61 Thu 30-Apr-20 11:55:30

Miss, what’s your favourite cake? I love lemon drizzle cake.

Pantglas2 Thu 30-Apr-20 11:56:01

Wot a gwd ayedeea Doodle! ?‍? I’ll get my Bakin Monitor baj an see if the Skool chookies have layd sum heggs??

Marydoll Thu 30-Apr-20 11:56:46

Callistemon and Missedout, ??
Well done.
Back later! Been 90 mins trying to download M&S new banking app. Locked out totally now! ? My day is going from bad to worse. I'm supposed to be an IT whizz for goodness sake!
Stuff the healthy eating, I'm off for chocolate and painkillers! grin

Mary51, there are no naughty children in my class, just CHALLENGING ones and there are plenty here!

Pantglas2 Thu 30-Apr-20 12:08:14

Ooh Miss can I ave choklat seein as ow I is your bestes changeling? I’d allso lyk one of them M&S Baps for my lynsh pleeze. Ham an slowcrawl wud be nyse......

trisher Thu 30-Apr-20 12:18:31

Mornin Miss! I'm poppin in again. I was just wondering do you do attendances at the end of term?

Marydoll Thu 30-Apr-20 12:20:42

Pantglas, it's healthy eating day, don't you know!
Here is a chocolate raisin for you, it's half healthy. Then again, Callistemon was cleaning out the rabbit hutch! ? I wonder.?

Candelle ??

Callistemon Thu 30-Apr-20 12:21:52

Captin Tom is a Colonel now (pronounced Kernel)

Well done, Colonel Tom, a well-deserved promotion.
??

Marydoll Thu 30-Apr-20 12:38:15

Trisher ??
Quercus ? Nice to have you on board!
Q2 is a trick question. wink

Callistemon Thu 30-Apr-20 12:41:03

I cleaned the downstairs loo for my mum.
However, I broke the tap and now I'm not aloud pocket munny. We have to get the plummer in but weere not aloud.

Feelingmyage55 Thu 30-Apr-20 12:48:16

puzzler61. I think Captain Tom is a traditional Victoria sponge gentleman or maybe Madeira cake. No Victoria sponge with icing sugar dusted on the top.

Callistemon Thu 30-Apr-20 12:52:17

The reporter was very close to that lovely cake and I was muttering 'don't breathe on it you stupid man, self-distance!!'

Bathsheba Thu 30-Apr-20 13:02:17

Sowwy Miss, I did cum into clars erliar but yoo wosent here so I wen hom and helpd my mum wiv sum cuking an that.

I jus popt in to see if yoo'd mannijed to get in and neely evrywon is here! Cept me blush. Sowwy yore nt fealin gud toodae Miss, I hop yoo feal betta soon. Hear ar sum flours, cos my mum alwase gets flours fore peepul hoo arnt well flowers

Ennyweigh I got strate on wiv my werk and got the arnsers to bof the problums an ive pee emmd yoo Miss.

trisher Thu 30-Apr-20 13:09:39

Ooh miss can I go out to play now? The grammar school boys are waitin. We cant do Shakespeer cos theyve told me we have to stay 8metres a part. But they sed we can do show an tell an they will start. i dont have enythin to show but they sed that wont matter.

Doodle Thu 30-Apr-20 13:35:30

trisher don you wan to stay an make cakes. I got chocolit icin an chocolit buttns for the top ?

Can we start now pantglas ? bathsheba got flor from er mum, you got eggs I got choclit. How duz the mixer thing work? Do I pres this butn? blush oops. pantglas you do lok funy. You got bits of flor all over you ?.

littleflo Thu 30-Apr-20 13:43:01

Did I miss the answer to yesterday’s puzzles?

Bathsheba Thu 30-Apr-20 13:54:57

Oi Doodle don waist my mum's flower! Shes avin teraball trubbel gettin old of it thees dais wot wiv the covonia krysis an all, cos evvrywuns bying awl the flower an stuff at the soopamaakits. She don evn no I brort sum to skool an shell oil me if she fines aht shock

Bathsheba Thu 30-Apr-20 13:55:49

Nah she won oil me I don fink hmm. Shell kil me.

trisher Thu 30-Apr-20 13:57:53

Doodle if I stay can I scrape the bowl?

Doodle Thu 30-Apr-20 14:10:28

Don wurry bathsheba I got sum daffdils in my gardn and she can ave those for flower.
Yes trisher you can but I’m savin sum cak for Willa coz she cums late an mite miss it.
Who’s goin to turn the ovin on?

willa45 Thu 30-Apr-20 14:10:52

Trisher, nobody can scrape Doodles bowl......she already flushed it!

grin

JoyBloggs Thu 30-Apr-20 14:13:03

Miss Mary have PMd today's answers... but still wondering about the age of the eldest brother yesterday... confused