Puzzlebrains

My mum does tutoring, and she has never had them come to her home. She only does it visiting them, and insists that the parents are in the house so that she isn't left babysitting a child unable to leave until the parents return. She is now 80, so is very picky who she will take on. Most of hers hav...

Happy anniversary.

Happy anniversary

They never teach you the right phrases at school or in phrase books do they? "I think there is a giant rat behind the plasterboard and it doesn't eat marrow" would be far more useful than "The monkey is on the table." (Not sure why the writers of the text book we had gave the family Lavisse a pet mo...

My son this morning after being woken by strange sounds outside his bedroom window as a man worked on the guttering.....

Son "Is there a man on the conservatory?"
Me "Yes"
Son " I thought it was a pigeon, but I opened the curtains and there was a pair of legs! "

Congratulations.

It is a Japanese game show that they used to watch when they were younger, it is incredibly silly and hundreds of competitors take part in each show (Have you seen Total Wipeout? It is an extreme version of that) A few get through to the final where they ride around on vehicles which have a tissue p...

Birthday celebrated by playing Takeshi's castle!

We have recently had the bathrooms done and the tiles choice was the one thing that had me totally stumped. These were wall tiles, and I just found it impossible to imagine what they would look like in situ. The only ones I was sure about were the ones that we bought that were on a room display in t...

Yes that's exactly how well I know him too.

(edit That was a reply to LAT)

Not knowing who Kanye West is I can't comment. (Probably disproves his point though!)

I thought he said "Greatest living rock star" ?

Happy birthday LAT

yes. (Sorry, I'm hopeless at writing clues.)

Scurra's difficult puzzle. (6,6)

ELEPHANT

Elephant
Lasagne
Especially
Pleasant
However
A....(Lallys)
Not
Tempted

Puzzle setter? 6,6

READING

Rabbit
Everyday?
Absolutely
Delighted
It's
Not
Giraffe.

Triple ripple

I'm hoping he'll stay until September.