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X8 tras No 12 from Christina French WHAT’S A COUPLE OF WORTH TO YOU? Why? you may ask. Well because ABSP member Mary Brown of the Carshalton Club played SQUEEZES for 275 when she was playing Barbara Allan on 14th April in one of the Division games at the club. Can any of you keen tile pickers match or beat that score for a word you have played recently? LITTLE INNOCENTS Childhood photos featured last issue were of Wayne Kelly and the couple were ‘my significant other’ and myself. I thought I would start off with some easy ones and they obviously were. Some of your guesses were half right and half wrong but well done to Viv Beckmann and Robert Richland for their correct guesses. Their prize is the very mention of their names within these revered pages. I’ve upped the anti this time - just a little bit harder. But hey! Who is this cute little poser? YOUNG COUPLES 40 Wayne Kelly, then and now Shouldn’t be too difficult to identify this well known Scrabble couple. Don’t you just love a little bit of romance tile pickers? Of course you do, and what a story of Scrabble Love Jill Harrison has to tell us ... Last June, Cirencester Club invited Gloucester Club to come over and play a few friendly games. After this enjoyable evening, one member of the Gloucester Club, Norman Partridge, decided he would like to continue to join us every week. This he did and very soon he became friends with another of our members, Anne Stevens. Over the next few months, romance blossomed and on March 20 they got married! Several of us took our bags of tiles to the reception and shook them vigorously to “introduce” one of the speeches. Who needs Speed Dating when there are Scrabble Clubs all over the country? Jill Harrison Anne is an ABSP member - Norman is not - Anne’s next wifely duty is obviously to get Norman to join the ABSP. If you know of a Scrabble romance we should all be made aware of you should let us know immediately ... not that we’re a nosey bunch. 41
Spotted on the internet: Collective nouns for Scrabble Tiles (suggested by Jeffrey Clark and Susi Tiekert) Five or more vowels on your rack? You have an ABOITEAU of vowels! How about a like number of consonants? Now you have a CRWTH of consonants! Holding 4 A’s? - an ATALAYA of A’s 4 E’s? - a FREEBEE of E’s 4 I’s? - a VISIBILITY of I’s 4 O’s? - a POOLROOM of O’s Holding all the U’s? - A muumuu of U’s Finally - Old MacDonald rack? - Any two tiles + EIEIO “Scrabble” mugs are too small appeals Peter Bailey of Hove in Sussex I won a “Scrabble“ mug as a ratings prize. After my last tournament, I decided to wash my Scrabble tile bag and needed to put the tiles somewhere while the bag was drying. As I don’t use my “Scrabble“ mug for drinking from, I thought this would be the ideal tile holder. As you know, there are 100 tiles in a set. The “Scrabble” mug only holds 93 standard tiles. Shouldn’t future mugs be a little larger? I have been much saddened to hear of the passing of Don Davis who contributed letters to TLW in the past - interesting ones too. Daphne Fletcher of the Hove Scrabble Club wrote: Don collapsed and sadly died of a heart attack on the way to our club in April. His funeral was well attended by numerous friends and the many organisations he belonged to. He thoroughly enjoyed competitive scrabble, to “keep the brain cells active” (aged 85) and was an excellent player, always cheerful (with the exception of Scrabble “vowel trouble”) and was a loyal Club supporter. Don was a popular man and a great advertisement for Scrabble holidays and tournaments (the I.O.W. was his favourite) when we usually travelled together exchanging scrabble ideas en route. He will be greatly missed. 42 ABSP MEMBER INTERVIEW STELLA WILKINSON INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY PAMELA WINDSOR Many thanks to Pam Windsor for interviewing Stella for the newsletter. Pam tells me “we are all very proud and fond of Stella”.Two for the price of one here as not only is Stella an ABSP member but she has just joined the exclusive 090 Club and is member No 6. When did you join Carshalton SC? I joined the Club in October 1982. Do you enjoy captaining a team playing in the Southern Counties League? Yes, in spite of the frustrations of finding dates to suit all the right players in each match. Why does playing Scrabble interest you so much? Having always liked mind games and doing crosswords, Scrabble appealed to me when I played my first game with my sister in about 1965. Is Scrabble your main hobby? My other pastime is doing jigsaw puzzles and although I am not very mobile I do go to several Whist Drives in the wintertime. Tell me about your career and marriage. I left school at 14 years of age and was immediately apprenticed to the millinery trade. I travelled every day to the Barbican from Windsor where I lived then, and did so four for years until we moved to London. I married in 1935, had three daughters and now have six grand children and seven great grand children. Do you mind people knowing your age? Not at all. I was 91 years old on 6th January 2004 and at the Club on the Wednesday we all enjoyed a chocolate cake made by one of the members and they all sang “Happy Birthday”. When was the above photograph taken? On my 90th birthday last year. Remember if you would like to join The 090 Club the criteria for joining is you MUST be over 90 - a couple of young things in their 80s tried to join in the past and obviously their application was declined. PHOTOGRAPHS - Over the last few years I have amassed quite a few photographs. If you have given me a photograph and I have not returned it please do not panic - they are all safe and I will return them as and when. 43
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