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🧩 Puzzle #654 🤔 21 guesses ⏱️ 2m 37s 🔗 alphaguess.com

:facepalm:

Never suggested that.

You said she was 91. Do the math!

I do understand and she would only have been 6 or 7 at the time the blitz started. What she experienced would have been horrific but that doesn't mean she would have known whether the bombing of Brighton was a deliberate target or if it were planes returning from a different target. Or, as in...

Get over yourself. Like I said, to a child it would seem very different. If you check, you'll see that the worst reported air raid was one plane that had got detached from the rest of it's group and then targeted Brighton.

I take it back, a little more research shows there were about 56 air raids on Brighton. But I still doubt they were timed to catch children during their lunch break!

I very much doubt the Germans timed their bombing so they could be over schools in Brighton at midday! The timing would have been based on the primary target and according to a quick google, Brighton wasn't a primary bombing target. It was subject to indiscriminate bombing as bombers returning...

Slayed was the first album I bought. Saw them at Donnington Monsters of Rock (along with AC/DC, Whitesnake, Blue Oyster Cult, Blackfoot and More) in 1981. Saw them again at the Brighton Centre when there were lighting issues and they played their set with the house lights on!!

🧩 Puzzle #653 🤔 12 guesses ⏱️ 1m 1s 🔗 alphaguess.com

You seem to be contradicting yourself. Firstly you talk about driving considering the conditions and then you complain that some country roads have too high a limit! It is a limit and not a target. You drive considering the conditions up to a maximum of the limit for the road. Limits on...

🧩 Puzzle #652 🤔 13 guesses ⏱️ 1m 2s 🔗 alphaguess.com

Telstar

🧩 Puzzle #651 🤔 15 guesses ⏱️ 51s 🔗 alphaguess.com

I've used scanners pretty much since they came in. Every now and again there is random check, normally only 7 items no big deal. A couple of months ago I had one such check and it found something that wasn't scanned. The assistant, who I knew as she had played in the youth team I managed...