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Guess I should have had a bash after all. I thought spending time on the allotment would be more useful than getting humiliated by a prize Paul (and weekday Paul I'm lucky if I get about half way - just once I finished him) but if indeed he's mellowing, then praise be...

I have two sets of Red Bibles: the Michelins for food, wine and shelter, Chambers for ultimate arbitration on English language and usage. Ashamed apologies for daring to suggest that "Byzantian" is a legitimate word. It isn`t. "Byzantine" is the correct form....as the Red Holy Book confirms!

Confession is good (even for the atheist) soul: well shrived! (Shriven?)

(For Robtherich) Puzzlers do make good sleuths: from my mild irreverence of the Bible you (quite rightly!) deduced that I was an atheist. Lets hope you don`t live up to your pseudonym!

But it's an ambiguous pseudonym, n'est-ce pas? Do I, or am I?

Indeed.....but you are a Grauniad Pundit and therefore much more likely to be a Messianic champion of the under-esteemed. Complete with beard, sandals and a healthy contempt for fat cats?

In one!

Carrots is off on holiday termorra,(complete with Araucaria Volume 4), but would like to leave a deceptively simple conundrum for Robtherich to think about. It is simply this:

"What is money for?"

Carrots: Happy hols, and I'll think about your question - but not a lot!

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