Author Topic: Arrivée est arrivé!  (Read 471480 times)

quixoticgeek

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Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2650 on: 19 June, 2020, 02:05:20 pm »
It's not Awoowoo any more :'(

My Amvee arrived this morning. There were also 3 packages from China, so the postie brought the whole lot up and handed it to me. Saves me going down to the mailbox.

J
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Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2651 on: 19 June, 2020, 02:51:06 pm »
Susurration
What a great word!

(Helen Kerrane's excellent piece)
Too many angry people - breathe & relax.

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2652 on: 19 June, 2020, 03:25:50 pm »
Seems to me the paper is slightly different. A bit more mat, less glossy. It's probably cheaper but I actually think it's an improvement.

More like a padded insert ??
:D  ::-) ;D
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2653 on: 19 June, 2020, 03:40:28 pm »


Seems to me the paper is slightly different. A bit more mat, less glossy. It's probably cheaper but I actually think it's an improvement.


I think the printing (font? colour? background?) is clearer and it's overall much easier to read. There's certainly less grey on grey.
Too many angry people - breathe & relax.

quixoticgeek

  • Mostly Harmless
Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2654 on: 19 June, 2020, 03:46:22 pm »


Seems to me the paper is slightly different. A bit more mat, less glossy. It's probably cheaper but I actually think it's an improvement.


I think the printing (font? colour? background?) is clearer and it's overall much easier to read. There's certainly less grey on grey.

Ah, so it's not just me. I like the matt.

J
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Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2655 on: 19 June, 2020, 04:27:29 pm »
Susurration
What a great word!

(Helen Kerrane's excellent piece)

Why thank you! It's that lovely sound of tyres on wet road after a shower. That constant zzzziiiippppp sound as you cycle through another puddle.

The Mayo 200 is a fabulous route, very wild countryside but not too far from towns. It's also reasonably flat for north Connacht. I'd recommend it any day, I can't guarantee you'll have a storm to go with it.

mmmmartin

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Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2656 on: 19 June, 2020, 05:30:53 pm »
Great crossword, and am having fun both trying to complete it AND fantasising about how to spend the £50 Wiggle I'm almost certainly not going to win, but it's all fun.
Now then: am I correct in thinking there's an error in the clue to 31 across? Clue says 20 letters but there is space for 21 letters?
Amirite?
Besides, it wouldn't be audacious if success were guaranteed.

Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2657 on: 19 June, 2020, 06:33:31 pm »
Great crossword

I think 7 up is lemonade, do I get the £50?  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2658 on: 19 June, 2020, 06:47:00 pm »
Great crossword, and am having fun both trying to complete it AND fantasising about how to spend the £50 Wiggle I'm almost certainly not going to win, but it's all fun.
Now then: am I correct in thinking there's an error in the clue to 31 across? Clue says 20 letters but there is space for 21 letters?
Amirite?
5,3,2,4,1,6

Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2659 on: 23 June, 2020, 10:17:31 am »
Yes to Shugg.  Also, there are two or three others (I think) where the number shown needs to be divded (3,3 instead of 6).  It's all to do with self-sufficiency!

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2660 on: 23 June, 2020, 10:45:02 am »
Surely a truly self-sufficient crossword would be one in which you made up your own clues and answers?  ;D
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

frankly frankie

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Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2661 on: 23 June, 2020, 05:32:54 pm »
I remember my father used to do a crossword called the 'skeleton' where there were no black squares, you had to fill those in yourself.
when you're dead you're done, so let the good times roll

Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2662 on: 23 June, 2020, 06:27:07 pm »
I remember my father used to do a crossword called the 'skeleton' where there were no black squares, you had to fill those in yourself.

I presume the words were already in there.



Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2663 on: 25 June, 2020, 11:28:09 am »
No, but you get clues, in the normal fashion.  You get these puzzles in publications such as "Puzzler".  (I bet that's the first time I've written a sentence with three "pu's" in it!)

telstarbox

  • Loving the lanes
Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2664 on: 15 September, 2020, 09:20:33 pm »
September issue has dropped. A great range of article topics again, well done to the writers/editors.

One minor issue is the Komoot advert includes a discount code (yay) which expired in June (boo).
2019 🏅 R1000 and B1000

robgul

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Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2665 on: 16 September, 2020, 07:50:55 am »
Latest is a marked improvement IMHO in terms of content and the design/layout  :thumbsup:    Slightly surprised at the relatively few adverts - that's good if it can be sustained from a financial perspective.

Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2666 on: 16 September, 2020, 10:14:50 am »
One minor issue is the Komoot advert includes a discount code (yay) which expired in June (boo).

Drop me a pm with your email address and I send you a komoot invite. This will give you the same (choice to have a free region enabled)

jf

Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2667 on: 17 September, 2020, 09:08:01 am »
Joe North on Biking Bounty - genius. Makes me wonder if I should take the Camper Longflap on every ride, rather than the Pendle...

markldn

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Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2668 on: 17 September, 2020, 12:08:37 pm »
Thank you to all the team that make Arrivee possible - what an accomplishment with so little resource.  I hope to have the time to one day help and contribute.

Does anyone know general timeline for when the electronic version will be uploaded to https://audax.uk/join-us/arriv%C3%A9e-magazine/?  Some friends are keen to see my article  ;D

FifeingEejit

  • Not Small
Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2669 on: 17 September, 2020, 03:40:37 pm »
Joe North on Biking Bounty - genius. Makes me wonder if I should take the Camper Longflap on every ride, rather than the Pendle...
Has the picture I took on the A7 as we hammered it towards Longtown been used?
Trying to draft with a pheasants head bouncing around is amusing.

Kim

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Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2670 on: 17 September, 2020, 07:12:38 pm »
Joe North on Biking Bounty - genius. Makes me wonder if I should take the Camper Longflap on every ride, rather than the Pendle...

Conspicuous absence of a recipe for badger, I noticed...

Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2671 on: 17 September, 2020, 07:17:10 pm »
Joe North on Biking Bounty - genius. Makes me wonder if I should take the Camper Longflap on every ride, rather than the Pendle...

Conspicuous absence of a recipe for badger, I noticed...

Badger burger and roasted squirrel 🐿 nuts

FifeingEejit

  • Not Small
Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2672 on: 17 September, 2020, 07:30:01 pm »
Joe North on Biking Bounty - genius. Makes me wonder if I should take the Camper Longflap on every ride, rather than the Pendle...
Has the picture I took on the A7 as we hammered it towards Longtown been used?
Trying to draft with a pheasants head bouncing around is amusing.

Ah it's the one when I pulled out to get a good photo of it hanging there.
Bit worrying I can't remember which photo Jo asked to use only a couple of months ago...

mattc

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Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2673 on: 23 September, 2020, 06:48:46 pm »
Latest is a marked improvement IMHO in terms of content and the design/layout  :thumbsup: 
Hoe yesssss! /Churchilldog

I've only briefly flicked through*, and 3 articles jumped out - all brilliant:
- Mille Cymru, and the horror that was The Pembrokeshire Coast Leg
- Roadkill (what more needs to be said?)
- Mental health, goals and failure. Great article El, audacious to submit it  :thumbsup:

Thankyou to all 3 writers, and of course to the production team.
I'm sure there are other good bits, I just haven't got to them yet.


*Delayed by a long weekend in the Welsh Hills  :)
Has never ridden RAAM
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Karla

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Re: Arrivée est arrivé!
« Reply #2674 on: 24 September, 2020, 07:31:33 pm »
Joe North on Biking Bounty - genius. Makes me wonder if I should take the Camper Longflap on every ride, rather than the Pendle...

Conspicuous absence of a recipe for badger, I noticed...

I hear it goes well with mushrooms?