The Quick Crossword Photo Exhibition
The Quick Crossword is what brings us together, online and in the real world.
Cocktails, CAKE , splother, cheesy comestibles usually feature in our gatherings, but one thing is sure. We always do the crossword together.
This month's photo exhibition theme was "The Quick Crossword" and QCCers rose to the challenge.
Before the pictures here are a couple of examples of Caff dwellers meeting in the real world and doing the crossword together.
Cocktails, CAKE , splother, cheesy comestibles usually feature in our gatherings, but one thing is sure. We always do the crossword together.
This month's photo exhibition theme was "The Quick Crossword" and QCCers rose to the challenge.
Before the pictures here are a couple of examples of Caff dwellers meeting in the real world and doing the crossword together.
Crossword in Cambridge
MonkeyJammas and Spanishscot meet in a pub in Cambridge and manage a clear run without czechs or cheats.
Tea and crossword at Buvvy Towers
PreahPithu and Nickwit meet Boveyphil during their UK tour and attempt the crossword. No EPT due, a pretty dismal performance....
What the Quick Crossword means to me. Photo exhibition
*click on the pictures to get full size
WolfHome spanishscot
16 Dec 2015 02:14
It's strangely difficult to take a photograph of something that's all about words.
It's difficult to put into words that which is expressed between the lines.
We never stay on topic for long.
The crossword is, indeed, less about the words that connect us,
the crossword is about words that bind us...
I've said it before: the crossword is about the people that solve it,
those that we see on these pages, and those we do not.
About Melmoth, and Liddell, and Bloggsie...
about those we long, to hear from just once more,
and those from whom we know we never will.
Thank you Scotty, for allowing us to say that if the crossword is about one thing
it is about friendship.
16 Dec 2015 02:14
It's strangely difficult to take a photograph of something that's all about words.
It's difficult to put into words that which is expressed between the lines.
We never stay on topic for long.
The crossword is, indeed, less about the words that connect us,
the crossword is about words that bind us...
I've said it before: the crossword is about the people that solve it,
those that we see on these pages, and those we do not.
About Melmoth, and Liddell, and Bloggsie...
about those we long, to hear from just once more,
and those from whom we know we never will.
Thank you Scotty, for allowing us to say that if the crossword is about one thing
it is about friendship.
OCDLady
Sometimes it's a long day's journey... ...into night.
Subernoj
Whilst this is not really a photograph, it does embody much of what I love about this wonderful group of people that share a common interest in words and their usage in the English language. For me it's keeping my mind active, playing with words and phrases that can have more than one meaning, and having a good laugh - even at my own expense. Long may it continew... |
TournesolquiDanse
"The commute home..." and the Quick Crossword
Onorae
Time: 00:23
Location: Kitchen table
Tools: Laptop, Shorter OED, Chambers English Dictionary, Brewers Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, Brewers Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable
Well, I’m ready so where’s the crossword?
Mais à vrai dire ... in my self-imposed regime, I use the dictionaries retrospectively either to check an obscure solution (the ones I fail) or in search of supporting evidence for my pedantry (rare though that is). When needs must, I’ll use any tool or strategy to complete the crossword but the real sense of achievement comes with no help of any kind – and, no, I’m not telling how often that happens. I never time myself – I’m not really a born competitor. I just feel it in my bones when I have done well. All the years of being gently mocked for my relentless talking (an accusation I deny) and for having two or three books on the go at the same time have led me to my infatuation with Guardian crosswords. I am otherwise a harmless soul!
MrsMatisse
When in Rome.... do the Quick Crossword
SeaSal
I think this shows what my Quick Crossword is these days, a lazy, cosy morning. Note the large mug of tea, to save repeated forays. The Moufflon has a blank grid on which he copies out the Sudoku – we start by doing that, fairly competitively. Then I do the crossword while he reads the rest of the paper. The dictionary, thesaurus & globe are my ‘buttinks’, tho’ the globe is a tad small for getting the capitals of any but the largest countries!
It was not always thus, for 15 years while working part-time the crossword was my entertainment on the train journey to work, then my distraction from chores on my days off.
It was not always thus, for 15 years while working part-time the crossword was my entertainment on the train journey to work, then my distraction from chores on my days off.
Spanishscot
If I have to describe the ideal set up to tackle the Quick Crossword, I will need a chaise longue, of course, cocktails and CAKE.
However, the quick crossword means a lot more than that to me. It has given me music, laughter, poetry, tea and sympathy and a whole lot of new friends. I just love doing the crossword together when we meet, so here are just a few memories of those times. And also a rare chance to see the MeFFod at work.
FriedFish
This caff is very close to home and Mr Oakpaw and I go past it on our morning walk. It's a daily reminder of what the QCC has brought to us both.
MonkeyJammas
Boveyphil
Spungal
Unity Green Black & White
Comment follower but silent observer, it was '39 - ’45 what done it!
I’m a beholder - enjoy beauty.
Comment follower but silent observer, it was '39 - ’45 what done it!
I’m a beholder - enjoy beauty.
Wolfhome
‘The theme is the Quick crossword…’
Ha, I thought, when did any cafetière worth their medium roast arabica ever stay on topic? Let’s go for something seasonal…
…but wait, there is a link to the crossword. The photograph was taken in my garden one Christmas morning a few years ago, it was my first, and so far, only white Christmas. The snow came down overnight, and on Christmas morning the sun was shining. It was, quite simply, magical. A fog came down around lunchtime, and an hour or two later the magic was gone.
I have never enjoyed the big family Christmas. There were usually far too many people crammed into an over heated, smoky room, stressed and ill tempered, and utterly determined everyone should enjoy themselves, ‘because it’s Christmas, isn’t it’. Now, there’s just me, my partner, and our dogs, in a quiet house deep in the country side, and sometimes, if we’re very lucky, on Christmas day, it snows.
Last year was my first Christmas in the Caff, So, not being particularly interested in the Queen’s Christmas Message, I popped into the caff, and there I found Johnny Solstice, MisspellAny, boveyphil, jinxtheminx and one or two others. The moderators were fast asleep - no doubt stuffed to the gills with mince pies and sherry trifle. There were a couple of poems, and some gentle splother, but what made that day special for me was the friendship and goodwill expressed in some simple words. Without a crossword to discuss friendship the only reason we were there. It was a Christmas quite different to my one and only white Christmas, but it was every bit as magical. The splother and poems are still there, tagged onto the end of Quick crossword 13,924. Sometimes Christmas is special whether you choose to celebrate it or not.
A photo of Arwen has appeared alongside my comments from day one. Here she is, as regal as ever, and totally unharmed by the enforced transition from portrait to porthole.
sparclear
Soon after the computer and the digital camera were given me, an exceptionally cold spell hit the Vintage Premises. Walks outdoors would get as far as the woodpile and back, then at my desk the Quick Crossword Comments warmed my spirit with new friendships, daily chatter, jokes, splother and menus.
How I wished I could share the intense frost flower beauties lining the porch! At that time, I hadn't worked out how to get pics online, but now I have an opportunity, so here you are.
How I wished I could share the intense frost flower beauties lining the porch! At that time, I hadn't worked out how to get pics online, but now I have an opportunity, so here you are.
Brontebiro
What the QCC means to me
First of all, Comradeship.
As it used to say ( in French) on the side of the HP sauce bottle, "a mixture of various spices"
A group of funny, witty, kind and supportive people.
Fine friends that have made me most welcome in their company and collective bosom (Ooh Matron !)
Chefs, artists,musicians,craftpersons, playwrights, poets and pedants,activists and argumentative buggers.
Fine friends that have shared their homes, beds (you know what I mean), cocktails and sympathy.
Fine friends that form a flash mob at the drop of a hat, to send me get-well cards, earlier this year, when I was very low, indeed.
And as for the day I retired,congratulation cards that contained mixed-up individually fashioned anagrams that I had to solve.
Even Bosun Oakpaw !
Some say that the QCC is a pointless exercise but I say that it's a word junkie's daily fix and a wonderful state-of-mind.
First of all, Comradeship.
As it used to say ( in French) on the side of the HP sauce bottle, "a mixture of various spices"
A group of funny, witty, kind and supportive people.
Fine friends that have made me most welcome in their company and collective bosom (Ooh Matron !)
Chefs, artists,musicians,craftpersons, playwrights, poets and pedants,activists and argumentative buggers.
Fine friends that have shared their homes, beds (you know what I mean), cocktails and sympathy.
Fine friends that form a flash mob at the drop of a hat, to send me get-well cards, earlier this year, when I was very low, indeed.
And as for the day I retired,congratulation cards that contained mixed-up individually fashioned anagrams that I had to solve.
Even Bosun Oakpaw !
Some say that the QCC is a pointless exercise but I say that it's a word junkie's daily fix and a wonderful state-of-mind.
Deelfi
Who would have thought when I started doing the crosswords on my own, on line, on my desktop computer, that a few years later I would be doing them on an iPad surrounded by others. The power of words and friendship.
Cuttle
Crossword bookshelf.