Thank you to all of you who submitted sayings for the competition. Before I give you the winners, may I point something out which may help you if you decide to enter next time? If you are entering by post and you want to put in say three entries, all of them with identical answers to the quiz but each one with a different saying, please don’t bother to send in three separate cards, laboriously completing them all so that they are more or less the same. Simply send in one card, and if there is no room on the card to put all of your suggested sayings down, write them on a piece of paper and staple it to the card. This year, I think we had more interest to the sayings competition than usual. Possibly the letters supplied were a little bit easier than usual. As usual, there were a lot of suggestions based on Christmas festivity and in particular drinking. There were also as usual quite a few with a topical theme. With so many Ts in the selection of letters given, it was inevitable that the name “Trump” would feature in some of your suggestions. This year for some reason there were also quite a lot which featured tortoises, and in particular that made reference to the story of the hare and the tortoise. There were also quite a few featuring test cricket. The Friends’ committee acting as a panel of judges always have a very difficult job choosing between many promising candidates. This year they have chosen as winners the following: Most like a proverb: The more tea consumed, the happier a British labourer works. Most inventive or ridiculous: This month’s trickiest challenge: to have a bit less wine. The prize-winners come from Hertfordshire and from Billingshurst.
Answers may be found here.