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Admin Those of you who have been visiting this site for a while now will no doubt remember the appeal I made back in December 2012 for help towards the annual hosting costs when … Read more >>
Edit (0730 13/11/14): The site should now be back to normal. Sorry for any inconvenience to users of a mobile device. In an attempt to track down the cause of excess CPU usage … Read more >>
A software update this afternoon has caused an elderly WordPress plug-in to malfunction, resulting in an error which created display abnormalities. This plug-in generated the ‘paged comments’ in the above two posts. To avoid the error I … Read more >>
It has been suggested that the next S&B get-together outside London be held in Cambridge, rather than Derby, sometime during March/April next year. Please indicate in a comment below if you might be … Read more >>
Eight years ago today the first blog was published on Fifteensquared by the site’s founder neildubya (it was for a Janus puzzle in the Guardian which had appeared two days earlier). Since then we have … Read more >>
I have been asked to sound out opinion as to the feasibility of having a get-together of solvers in Australia, similar to the S&B gatherings that we have here in the UK, sometime … Read more >>
Jane and I would like to thank everyone for making the (first) Sloggers and Betters York weekend such an amazing event. We were 22 on the Friday pub quiz crawl and exactly sixty … Read more >>
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A message from John H.
I’m sure to have missed people out or to have left out special dietary needs. Please would you check the relevant list(s) below, and advise me of any such omissions or inaccuracies. I can easily swap you from list to list.
IMPORTANT: Please see the PS at the bottom of this post.
The main event will be at The Fox and Roman, 58 Tadcaster Road, Dringhouses, York YO24 1LR. I’m organising a buffet lunch for around 2-3pm which, as on previous occasions, will come to £8-10 per person. The pub opens at 1130am.
The issue that was causing problems when using HTML tags in comments has now been resolved so please ignore my original post (see below) and continue to use them if/when required. ************* Original … Read more >>
… (optional Friday evening and Sunday lunch, 1,2 or 3 nights).
Is this a good date? If so, please confirm below then Jane and I will go ahead and organise it. Half-term for the teachers, and it worked in Sheffield this time last year (some bloke’s birthday). We’ll try and get deals for Fri/Sat, Sat/Sun and Fri/Sat/Sun if all approved.
John H. (aka Nimrod, Enigmatist etc)
Edit (10/6/14): the vacancies have now been filled.
New bloggers are required to cover the following puzzles:
Financial Times (Tuesday, either every week or as part of a rota for this day)
Guardian Quiptic (every fourth Monday)
Guardian Genius (once every six months)
Just over a week to go before our get-together in Derby on Saturday 17th May. We have nearly 40 people coming, with around ten setters and a good number of new faces, who … Read more >>