WAY BACK THEN
GERMANY AND ALL THAT
TRIUMPHS & CELEBRATION
ULUNDI DAYS
WANDERING THE WORLD
100
  • Who was the toy with the toga?

Bingo the Roman

100
  • How do you preserve a jigsaw puzzle?

By closing the door so Vic can't get in.

100
  • Which Trooper in the Household Cavalry had a lucky escape?

The one on the stairs at Buckingham Palace who just avoided having Vic's finger test if he was real.

100
  • Who cast a spell over our clean laundry?

M, alias the witch in the ironing room.

100
  • DID YOU SEE WHO I SAW? (amazing coincidence in supermarket)

Anna Peate rushing to tell Vic whom she'd found in the Singapore food mart.

200
  • What ’as Mummies only got, and why does it matter?

Two 'ands - one triplet (Kate?) firmly holding one 'and admonishing one of her sister's, who couldn't

200
  • Why was it a terrible idea to guess the number of beans in a jar?

Because you win a doll as large as Judy which SPEAKS:  eek!

200
  • Who, in Ireland, had to have come from Scotland?

George, in his shorts, at the evening event in the garden at Ballynahinch.

200
  • What are those spherical white weeds that keep appearing in the flower beds?

Ping pong balls, hit there by - could it possibly be Eddie?

200
  • Who was badly let down by the Red Cross (& her father)?

Judy, gazing longingly at her father's witty food parcel in the Consulate in Moscow.

300
  • Then who did live in the House, if it wasn’t a Giant?

The Foreign Secretary (Judy visiting the FCO)

300
  • Who won a tug-of-war at Friedrichstrasse?

Vic against the E. German Vopo trying to take her ID card.

300
  • How and when did an Italian tourist underestimate Vic?

When he was unwise enough to laugh at D in his wig, tights and buckled shoes on the way back from the House of Lords, and got an earful of Roman gutter abuse as his reward.

300
  • Why was Kate embroiled in the secret handover of a passport at Green Park?

D's mercy dash to reunite addle-pated AIESEC Toby with his, half-way to the airport.

300
  • Who had a long drive but did find somewhere to park and a handy doctor? 

The O'Bermans after Ella had anxiously asked her father whether he'd be able to find a parking place in the Kalahari.

400
  • Why did the postal service go astray despite M&D’s extra effort?

Because Katie commandeered the second plastic postbox as well.

400
  • Who needs Velcro, so long as your coat is brown?  

Stef, decorating his brown duffel coat with burrs for buttons.

400
  • Who was deserted by the bride on the wedding day?

Judy - by Vic.

400
  • Who ran several large ships aground, and where?

All the grandchildren - on the simulator at the Maritime Museum.

400
  • Who was invisible at Kai Tak, and why?

Jon, when M arriving in Hong Kong failed to see his head one foot above all the others.

500
  • Which doll didn’t quite get rusty?

Rutsy Dolly

500
  • Who had to be manoeuvred round the garden in the snow?

M, very pregnant, on D's lunch-time visits to the Military Hospital.

500
  • But why, if they’d already had a stylish carriage?

Jonny & Margie leaving their wedding party on a bicycle-made-for-two.

500
  • Which sibling was the victim of identity theft?

Stef, when Judy overwrote for herself the entries in his My Book About Me.

500
  • Why did only one son-in-law walk round the streets draped in a net curtain?

Because Christoph was the only one who lived in Bergen Op Zoom with its quaint customs!