Walking in the woods yesterday I found this semi-circular stone edifice. It is on an outcrop high above the river Aveyron. Could it have provided shelter for a look-out or a forester? It is about the same size as the WW II pillboxes you see in England.
Yesterday evening I drove west for two hours from Tarn to the Gers. My hostess in my new billet is most thoughtful as the bedside table attests.
There is a fridge downstairs stacked with chilled bottles of Bombay Sapphire to take to bed. You’ve probably guessed that they are filled with water. Last night six of us sat out on the terrace and tackled an old FT quiz that I had brought out from London. My intention had been to do it in the Tarn with a famous quiz participant who came to lunch on Saturday. However, lunch was too convivial for me to drag her away for quizzing.
We got a few answers last night but were stumped by the linking theme. It is strange what goes on when one’s asleep because as soon as I woke this morning I knew the theme and with that help a few more answers. Here are the questions.
1. Which song has been a hit for Eddie Floyd, Amii Stewart, and David Bowie?
2. Which event, described in chapter nine of The Acts of the Apostles, has inspired paintings by Rubens, Caravaggio, Bellini, and William Blake – all of them featuring a horse?
3. Which libel lawyer’s clients included Robert Maxwell, Sir James Goldsmith and Neil Hamilton?
4. Which of the traditional five senses depends on the body’s somatosensory system?
5. Which musical, subtitled Live from Las Vegas, played at a record-breaking eight West End theatres between 2003 and 2018?
6. What’s the name of Radio 4’s daily arts programme?
7. In business, what single word is a synonym for net sales?
8. In which film did the footballer Vinnie Jones make his screen debut?
9. Which television series starred William Shatner as a long-serving police sergeant?
10. Which three words followed “We’re only No 2” in a celebrated advertising slogan for Avis rental cars?