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Likes; Mattrom 26, Hannah 38
Vote; Geevo 5 (No offence intended I’m sure Pigale!)

Liked geevo #5, chrise #17, ginge #18, paul #20, rossim #30, BBM2 #35

Voting for spike2 #22

Good evening, all. By my reckoning, there are 24 entries from 14 setters. The current position is that mattrom@23, aristo@11, geevo41@5, rossim@30 and spike2@22 each have one vote but paul@20, mattrom@26 and hannah@38 with 2 votes apiece are currently in the lead. We're still waiting to hear from rossim, hannah and fiery, so it's very much all to play for. I'll give it until 9:00pm or so.

Liked Ginge 18, Marty 25.
Going for
Mattrom @ 26

Sorry I'm late.
Hannah @ 38

Therefore I too must be late . . we have just woken up on this side of the world

Chrise@15

Too many others to mention

When voting is finished I will explain my 'Harrison' clues a bit further

All the votes are now in and the final position is as follows.

Mattrom@23, aristo@11, geevo41@5, rossim@30, spike2@22 and chrise@15 each have one vote
Paul@20 has 2 votes
Mattrom@26 and hannah@38, each with 3 votes, are tied in the lead, so it's down to me to decide.

It's hard to separate the 2. I really like the idea behind Hannah's clue, but I'm twitchy both about the use of "commander" for the abstraction bit of the anagram and "force" as the anagrind. I'm therefore going with mattrom@26:

Lump left in pastry

So, congratulations (again) to mattrom.

The prize is something that appeared like magic on my Facebook feed (and mercifully, nothing to do with piles), which I really liked. I hope you do too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iN1QsDgSZw

Many thanks to all for taking part. It was a great response and I enjoyed hosting it.

Peter

Congrats mattrom. Thanks peterm, and for the clip (interesting guitar technique!)

Thanks very much for the vote, hannah, and the mention, mattrom

More than pleased to run second in such august company

Thanks all




From "The Man from Snowy River" A B Paterson

"And Harrison who made his pile when Pardon won the Cup"

So when Harrison got his in the ring . . it was the bookmakers' ring