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Hi Rusty
You've reminded me of one of my favourite "Alex" cartoons from the Telegraph (read in a compilation, you understand - I wouldn't buy that awful rag!)
Vince, the Cockney money man, is talking to his son:
"Let's see what those clever frogs have made - I've brought it back in my jamjar"
"It's a tad, it's a tad..."
"Yes?"
"It's a tad oaky - is it a chardonnay?"

Chris
I remember doing the same with my parents and we even took our dog, all standing by the stones. We had paid a shilling to a man in a kiosk !

I remember Wookey Hole, crawling into a very cramped space and getting claustrophobia ! Watching Doc........no funny names so far......

Hi, Rusty!
Now I haven't been able to do 16a?
I have A?I?
The "a" is from "reading lamp" and the "i" from "aborigine."
I am sure of the letters.
As far as I am concerned, the Central line is a red line on the Tube map!
It isn't just in E. London........
It has many more stops than eleven.......
I am completely at sea here?
Well, done you, for getting it (whatever it is?)



Chris, would you believe - according to Google - that it now costs £16-50 p.a., and £9-90 for a child, 5 years or over?
( Maybe you could sell your pics online?!)

I have just seen the prices for Stonehenge ! I've not visited since the 1960's and we were able to touch the stones. It is all too commercialised now.

We went to Wookey Hole on the same camping trip. I remember standing in a stream by the camp site there (in my wellies), and a Kingfisher flashed by me, just missing - the first one I'd ever seen! I was a keen birdwatcher even then.

We lived in Barnstaple then. We meandered eastwards and vaguely northwards. We went to Longleat (before the lions were there), got as far as Stratford-on-Avon, then wombled back. Another memory was the model village at Bourton-on-the-water.

Hello, Elle!
16,
I shall explain Cockney to you!
An East London chappie would not say "has".
He would say " 'as".
Eleven is X1, stopping "as".
Giving "axis" for Central Line.

Chris,
Bourton-on-the water is very busy now and the locals complain of tourists peering into their windows. It was still peaceful last time we visited, along with Moreton in Marsh, Stow on the Wold and Toad in the Hole (last one I made up)

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, that is a very clever clue!
Thank you for explaining it to me.
I should never have got it had I tried till the cows came home!
I was too fixated on the Central line being the (red) Tube line.
Very skilful misdirection by the setter.
I have been invited out to lunch tomorrow, but have regretfully turned it down....
I think my energies - such as they are - need to be spent on my dog!
She has had a raw deal over the past four days whilst I have been housebound.
I have arranged instead to meet my friend Thursday week.
We shall try to reinstate "Ladies who Lunch"!