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Best wishes to all users of out PCT - hope you all enjoy a very merry christmas !

Best wishes to you too, Pigale!

Hi, Rusty!
Ah, a quote from "Blue Bayou"!
Roy Orbison may have written (and sung) the lyrics, but Linda Ronstadt very definitely made it her own, didn't she?
I am still being bothered by "I have been a Rover", which I think is actually entitled "Love's Been Good to Me"?
I have decided that I prefer Rod McKuen's rendering, to that of Frank Sinatra.
Have a listen to Rod on YouTube?
I had forgotten that you were going out for a bacon roll with Miss O this morning!
Did you have a good time?
Did you go to the Pine Cone?
Our printer has died on us! What a nuisance!
I think we shall have to treat ourselves to a new one.
Maybe in the January Sales?

Hello, Elle!
Linda certainly did!
Yes, young Miss O and me went to Pine Cone and it was pretty wet and windy there.
It is at a higher altitude than where we live.
Maybe that's why.
Printers are not expensive these days.
I did not replace mine when it went kaput.
I rarely used it, except for the odd crossword, and I am down to one a day now, so I'll do without one.
Have you done today's Times?
I have one (a new word to me) and I cant make it work with the clue.
I do not know if it is a Cockneyism or not!
I'll leave it until you complete yours.

Hey, Rusty!
It is wet and extremely windy here!
I am just listening to the weather forecaster on the television telling me that we shall have NO wind here!
Er........right?
How is with you now?
It has been a hectic afternoon........
Some friends dropped by with their card.
It is always nice to see people, but then I end up chasing my tail, with my list of jobs unfinished!
I haven't had the time to do the crossword, but tell me which clue you are wondering might be a Cockneyism and I will take a look?
( although I doubt I shall be much help!)

Hello, Elle,
Weather is a bit wet and windy but nothing exceptional....so far.
I think there are restrictions on the Road Bridge, though.
No buses or high-sided vehicles getting across.
The answer which is puzzling me is 25a.
I was reading a report earlier on the enquiry into British Cycling, and a former head coach, Ken Matheson, said, "there is a culture of fear and favour that is endemic".
I think there is a lot more to come.

Rusty, there's no Cockneyism involved in 25 A...

Excellent price reported for imported ice cream (5)

Kulfi is Indian ice-cream and it sounds (apparently) Cool Fee, excellent price. (Whenever I've had it, the pronunciation has always been more like Coolfy.

Hi, Rusty!
Mmm, I didn't think I would be of much help to you!
I have done 22d, 7d, and 19d which give me.....
22a: K?L?I
Obviously it is a homophone, see "reported"?
but I don't know of any ice cream that fits those letters?
I'm presuming "ice cream" is the definition, Rusty?
I don't think it is a Cockneyism, but haven't anything else to offer?
I haven't heard anything about the British Cycling investigation.
What has been happening?
Have they discovered what was in the mysterious package yet?

P.S. Malone answered whilst I was (slowly) typing!

Hello, Malone.
Ah, I was pronouncing Kul with "gull" and "cull".
And made no sense of it.
It is a new word to me, and I found it in Chambers.
I live and learn!