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Never heard any ghost stories about Westlea or Hartlands. However if there are ghosts they must be good and keep everyone safe . West Bedlingto is a great place to live . Happy New Year 2022 to all including any ghosts

New Year’s Eve or not, it’s still Friday. Here we are, on the brink of yet another new year and the pandemic is still very much alive and kicking. Who would have thought it possible, 10 April 1920, when I started posting a quiz to break the week up and keep the old grey matter ticking over and pliable. Once again it’s time to recap and take stock of anything we may have learned that might just come in useful one day. Get your thinking caps on! If you get this out of the way now, you’ll still have plenty of time to celebrate the arrival of 2022 - carefully and at a safe distance, of course. 2021 New Year Special: Are polar bears right-handed or left-handed? According to his business card, what was the profession of Al Capone? Golf balls were originally made of leather but what were they stuffed with? What was unusual about the way in which author Raymond Chandler’s wife did the housework? When was the first book on plastic surgery written? How many times an hour can a desert rat have sex? What did Florence Nightingale keep in her pocket during the Crimean War? At how many steps per minute does the Foreign Legion march? Beethoven, Casanova, George V. Which of them was a Freemason? At what age can a male eskimo be taught to smoke a pipe? For what offence was James Watt twice arrested? In which country was a referendum held to decide the placement of a public toilet? Only male canaries can sing . true or false? Maps of which country showed the capital city a few miles from it’s true position in order to confuse guided-missile programmers? Which English poet was once thought to be a French spy? Are scorpions immune to their own poison? Which racing circuit is built on abandoned RAF runways? How many minutes a day does the average newborn baby spend crying? Who introduced the table fork to England? Who played the piano in the Hollies’ hit He aint heavy, he’s my brother? I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Kangaroos cannot jump if their tails are lifted off the ground. Answers on Thursday next week.

Answers to last week's Christmas special: Rocking Around the Christmas Tree Going carol-singing at Christmas (not to be confused with ‘Orchard wassailing’ which has nothing to do with Christmas. A Pagan mid-winter festival celebrated in Norse mythology The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come A button January 6 16th century Flying Fish Cove A goat Eight maids a milking Clockwise Olympia was a snow-woman Capricorn Santa Baby A cactus Female. Males shed their antlers in November and are without them until Spring False Miss Fanny Bright Theodore Roosevelt 1920s New Year special tomorrow when we can see if, and how much, our learning curve has improved or otherwise.