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Hello - BIG February 2012 Hello - BIG February 2012

Good news this month for anyone whose birthday falls on 29th February – this is a leap year so you can celebrate your birthday on the correct day instead of 28th February or 1st March. Or maybe you don’t mind not having a birthday, because you claim to be only a quarter of your age! Adding an extra day to the calendar every four years compensates for the fact that a period of 365 days is shorter than a solar year by almost 6 hours. A person born on February 29th may be called a leapling... 

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Subscriber Draw Winners - Nov/Dec ‘11

Congratulations to the winners of the November/December 2011 Subscribers Draw. They... 

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Arms akimbo

Meaning; a stance with hands on hips and elbows turned out, usually showing impatience of defiance. Akimbo is an old word that is only heard in this phrase, or very occasionally and more recently, as ‘legs akimbo’. A similar English example... [Read more or comment]

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Third Time Lucky!

Thank you very much for my third win on the “Large Print Crosswords” competition! What’s even luckier is that I have received a different prize every time - first was the Collins Large Print Dictionary, second was the Collins Large Print Dictionary & Thesaurus (’cos you’d run out of the dictionaries, lucky me!) and this time, I received the Oxford Large Print Dictionary, another different publication! Doubly blessed... [Read more or comment]

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