Thanks for the homemade snoek pate and chocolate tart.
And Happy Birthday Terry!
Sue's quiz:
1. Two men climb down a mountain with 2 Stone tables, which subsequently had great influence on mankind.
2. A girl is taught to read by her foster father and develops a passion for books.
3 A young elephant wonders what crocodiles have for supper.
4. An elderly man shares a waiting room with a young man with a suitcase. The young man needs to go the bathroom and asks the other man to look after his suitcase.
5 A baby is named after a swimming pool and spends a long time in water as a child.
6 A woman marries a man who has been blinded in a fire.
7 An art expert sees a sculpture in a New York Art Gallery and realizes that is it a fake.
8 A man sleeps on a tale on a long sea voyage, ins a small cabin, surrounded by his equipment and specimens.
9 A young man saves money to help his father during the depression in America, and hopes to earn his respect. Instead, this father throws the money back and humiliates him yet again.
10 A nun gives birth to twin sons.
11. A hare attends a party. He made hats, which may have damaged his brain.
12 The family have a large dog, which looks after the children.
13 A Catholic priest helps poor people, including prostitutes to survive, while a Frenchman walks a tightrope between the twin towers in New York.
14 A bloodstain appears on the ceiling of a smart boarding house.
Answers:
1 The Bible.
2 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
3 Just so Stories by Rudyard Kipling. (The Elephant's Child.)
4 The hundred year old man who jumped out the window and sidappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
5 The life of Pi by Yann Martell.
6 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
7 Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
8 This thing of darkness by Harry Thompson.
9 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
10 Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese.
11 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
12 Peter Pan by JM Barrie.
13 Let the great world spin by Colum McCann.
14 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
