Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

Damn you, Flay... just catching up and was planning a cunning quip on reading Anna's post!! You're way ahead of me

Always happy to displease

[Nick Armstrong]

Always happy to displease

You do it so charmingly

[Flay]

Well I think Ammy got it with Hall.

Norfy must have been blown away by his chill northerly wind

[Anna]

Oh well, Norfy is offline it seems but I think the I belongs to Ams, subject to verification of correct result, I am still confused about the horse .......
Anyone going to watch Eurovision tonight? Or are we off down the pub, or pedalling in the park, or throwing another prawn on the barbie? (I'm having a fishy day btw, got trout tonight, I shall be chock full of Omega 3 - and fish is good for the brain, it may even help me solve a puzzle!) Edit: Whoops, didn't see Flay above me

[Norfolk Born]

Hello all- just got back. (I didn't think my harmless little question would take so long to answer).
Anyway:
A thoroughbred horse is a barbican, the consort was Albert, the English used to (and still may) call Conwy Conway, and Oscar Wilde was staying in Room 118 of the Cadogan Hotel.
So we have four London concert venues, namely the Barbican, Albert, Conway and Cadogan Halls.
Anna's 'I'?
First Capital Connect will take you to Barbican, whence you may use other capital connections to rech the other venues.

[Anna]

Anna's 'I'?

You is joking me! I got nothing right (I even bet on the wrong horse!!) No, Ammy cracked it.

[Flay]

Or are we off down the pub, or pedalling in the park, or throwing another prawn on the barbie? (I'm having a fishy day btw, got trout tonight, I shall be chock full of Omega 3 - and fish is good for the brain, it may even help me solve a puzzle!)

We are barbying at friends' so I will not be around for the evening. I suspect we'll be carnivores. No pescetarianism for us!

Whoops, didn't see Flay above me

Open your eyes, darling

[Norfolk Born]

Whoops! So he did - apologies, Ammy (too busy trying to catch up with AA and other stuff before supper).

[Nick Armstrong]

A thoroughbred horse is a barbican

Is it?!

Well, I never! I see it in various dictionaries but... that's pretty obscure! Or is it just me (and mercs)?

[Flay]

http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/ca...6#raceTabs=sc_

[Flay]

Maybe Norfy looked at the disambiguation for barbican but didn't click on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbican_(horse)

[Norfolk Born]

I actually had a much earlier throughbred horse called Barbican in mind, which I stumbled upon via a Wiki disambiguation. I was originally going to offer a clue based on weak beer.

[Norfolk Born]

Maybe Norfy looked at the disambiguation for barbican but didn't click on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbican_(horse)

I used it as a basis for further research, and found this:

https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/barbican

[Anna]

No pescetarianism for us! Open your eyes, darling

What? No pescetarianism? Not even a flounder in the dark? I can keep my eyes closed for that. Oh dear, the curse of the hot Saturday afternoon strikes again. I'm going to sit outside with a cold glass of something and dream of a possible sole mate who dances to the same tuna.

[Flay]

Don't worry, Norfy. I liked the post code idea.

I was originally going to offer a clue based on weak beer.

There was once a TV comedy spoof about the man from DelMonte where the man in the white suit was trying that "beer", nearly vomiting, then smiling. All the workers were looking on anxiously, then cheered: "the man from Barbican, he say yes!"