wiki-illiam #106: q15

[dubdobdee]

Where:
i: does one come off the rails?
ii: might there be a quarryman's shelter?
iii: does the hairpin recall Loch and his successors?
iv: must one look in vain for Noble's Peel and Derby?
v: does a dwelling at barely 30m seem seriously misplaced?
vi: might one be excused for wrongly supposing a link with Camilla's great grandmother?
vii: is there a possible source for the winner's garland?
viii: did a party from Grange Hill cause a disturbance?
ix:is there a suggestion of a subterranean spirit?
x: is there a fraction over the glass?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ix: made me think of the STIPERSTONES in south west shropshire, where the lead mines are haunted by tapping spirits known to locals as the KNOCKERS -- ghosts of miners, or kobolds, or who knows...

However this legend takes hold wherever there are abandoned mines, so probably not the stiperstones.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

vii KAT TO THREAD!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

i = in the Thomas the Tank Engine books by The Rev. W. Awdry. Frequently! There was even a story called "Off The Rails". I think I still have an LP with Johnny Morris of Animal Magic fame reading the story.

Thomas went "Down The Mine" also in one story!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ii) "quarryman's shelter" = The Cavern club in Liverpool? DYS?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

oh, i was thinking race courses for this, viz:

iii: does the hairpin recall Loch and his successors?

Aintree, Devon Loch etc

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Assuming it's not Grange Hill on the Central Line ;)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I think you have got it. I was merely flailing in a dubdobdee stylee above.

vi.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

=> a bit of googling gives me two possibilities for vi., one in UK and one in Australia. But I think it must be the UK course they want.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

viii) could this be ROLY and the disturbance be Tom Kitten getting baked in a pudding?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

KITTEN KITTEN KITTEN

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Other notable parties from Grange Hill: Zammo, Chrissy Mainwaring (who got up the duff), Ky3 S0n3s from my school who threw an apple at Mr Brisley, Mr BRONSON who is in every film ever incl Star Wars Ready Salted, Mrs McClusky neé Tiggywinkle....

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

x) Is the glass a PINT glass or a LOOKING glass? Or just a window?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

ON NO POOR KITTEN!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

glass as in measure, I reckon. Is there a racecourse with a pub or bar in the grounds called 'the overflowing pint' or 'a third over the limit' or something like that?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

fraction over a glass could just be "half pint" though? doesn't help with an answer unfortunately...

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Having Googled it, these are questions in which even the dimmest student of KWC will have an advantage over us!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Some wikiing about Camilla P-B reveals the following great-grandmothers:
- Edrica Faulkner
- Maud Marianne Calver
- Alice Frederica Keppel, née Edmonstone <-- this one seems most interesting as she was mistress of Edward VII

!!!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

"[Keppel's] daughter later became the chosen l35bian lover of sewing machine heiress Winnaretta Singer."

This woman is amazing

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

"Keppel lived at Pleasure House, East Sutton, Kent."

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

If we're still going for a racecourse theme, then apparently "Camilla was raised opposite the Plumpton Racecourse".

Re: !!!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"chosen l35bian lover" -- as opposed to what other kind of lover?

wasn't the duchess of duke street sortakinda based on keppel?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I think it is Alice Keppel we want. My googling yesterday revealed that there is an Alice Keppel Stakes run at Goodwood every year. So I think the answer is Goodwood.

The "wrongly supposing" bit is presumably that it's a different Alice Keppel to the one who was Edward VII's mistress. This is not as unlikely as it sounds: I, coincidentally, dug out my 25 All-Time Bubblegum Hits CD last night for the first time in ages, and an Alice Keppel is thanked in the credits immediately after Kasenatz and Katz :D :D

iv.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"Noble's Peel and Derby" appears to be a reference to the statues of Sir Robert Peel and the Earl of Derby by Matthew Noble, both of which I can see out the window from where I am sitting right now! The Lex no doubt studied them carefully just before Christmas.

I have no idea what this has to do with HOSS RACING

I've cheated on this one

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

bAH. If other forums are right, the theme is a course on which a race is run but not hoss racing. Something EVEN MORE BORING.

Re: I've cheated on this one

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

POLO?

Re: I've cheated on this one

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oh hang on, is it F1 circuits?

Re: I've cheated on this one

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Or motor racing in general? Keppel Corner is on the Manx TT circuit.

TT, yes

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

That's the one. So is "Parliament Square", apparently.

Re: TT, yes

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

OH DEAR ix) is 'Brandywell'

Re: TT, yes

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

And I knew vii) was something to do with laurel wreaths but 'Laurel Bank' as a source of them... MAN this is the bad pun section isn't it!

Re: TT, yes

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Hence Andrew's sly post upthread: King William school is on Man...

even so zzzz i'm afraid