Saturday 18 December 2021

Hospitality (featuring Woodlouse or Moth)

 "The PSC (pre show coffee) Award: Simon" – smudged in transit
 
 Oh my God, I never win anything!
 The "Best Actor Oscar" from Morgan was an honorary thing really, but that paper plate to the left of it came with ceremony, cheers, and tables in the corner of an upstairs room of the Lyric Pub Soho – the full Dundies, in other words – a coherence. The PSC is an award that speaks to me. It says, "You make coffee before a show, Simon. You are seen. You did not just crash the Crystal Maze hosts' social last Monday. You were expected, it's fine." 
 After the ceremony we lugged our plastic medals over to the Pheonix – when was I last there?... I bounded home smoothed by compliments received for a person I barely recognised, and fortified by the hope of a world reoreinting itself to accommodate the plans of those just starting out. 
 Christmas had started early. 
 In fact, as soon as Halloween was over – bang on All Hallows' – we'd transitioned into playing reindeer, and the Crystal Maze wasn't the only business decking its halls earlier than seemed seemly, in the unspoken shadow of another possible lockdown sometime in actual December. So it was good we got the  celebrating in when we did, before Omicron Week. 
 However it does mean I ended up posting nothing on Monday evening. Or since. So to make up for that, here's a working week's worth of unposted quiz rounds from the Dungeon Zoom, beginning with - from May the 14th – "Woodlouse or Moth?"... There are ten of each, but which is which? I'll post the answers in the comments below, but you can also find them for yourself here and here.

1. Dandy Postman
2. Apple Leaf Skeletonizer
3. Charlie Pig
4. Oak Lutestring
5. Scarce Vapourer
6. Billy Baker
7. Humidity Bug
8. Manchester Treble-Bar
9. Blair's Shoulder-Knot
10. Cheesy Papa
11. Roly-Poly
12. Old Lady
13. Triangle
14. Chuggy Peg
15. Least Minor
16. Damp Beetle
17. Clifden Nonpareil
18. Leather-Jacket
19. Snout
20. Granny Grunter 

1 comment:

  1. AND HERE ARE THE ANSWERS... 1. woodlouse, 2. moth, 3. woodlouse, 4. moth, 5. moth, 6. woodlouse, 7. woodlouse, 8. moth, 9. moth, 10. woodlouse, 11. woodlouse, 12. moth, 13. moth, 14. woodlouse, 15. moth, 16. woodlouse, 17. moth, 18. woodlouse, 19. moth, 20. woodlouse.

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