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1 Who wrote the three musketeers? 2 Name the sequel to 1987 film Three Men and a Baby? 3 What was the first in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy of films called? Red, White or Blue? 4 Which substance naturally exists on Earth in all three chemical states? 5 Which famous person in history left his property in his will to his two daughters, sister, three nephews and many friends, but nothing to his wife Anne? 6 What animal is also three strikes in a row in ten-pin bowling? 7 Which pop star died three days before Groucho Marx? 8 What are the three colours of the flag of Chile? 9 Which football team were losing FA Cup finalists three times during the 1980s? 10 Which cartoon character has three nephews called Huey, Dewey and Louis?


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into the pan. When I did remonstrate with her that I preferred to finish a lamb chop with my teeth unbroken, she said that she was planning a holiday. I told her that the Shrimp and Tankard provides ample means for my relaxation but she held up a picture of a bay in the Tropics.


Monday. Mrs Pepys has of late been spending much time perusing When I protested that the only way I would venture ashore in such a


tailor and a platoon of the King’s Infantry she said “You’ll have to pay for their rooms, then.” I asked her in amazement what we would do there apart from beat off the flies. She held up an evil-looking machine made of a mask and tubes and said “diving.” I told her it looked like a Dutch torture device. No, quoth she, it was a “snorkel” and fitted into one’s mouth, which proved my point. “We will go swimming!” she said. And so my wig would lose its curls. “Then remove it!” she cried. I complained that I may as well go naked. “At least you would get a tan,” she said.


place was with a shipload of cooks, a brace of alehouse wenches, my sundry illustrated volumes, thereby allowing tonight’s dinner to burn She then revealed her nefarious plan: we were to remove our clothes


and lie on the sand and let the Indies sun do to us what she had done to the chops. I did not ask her how we would defend ourselves from an attack by a French frigate, nor how she would present herself at court when her skin made her indistinguishable from th King’s brandy cabinet, but merely said that sailing there would take us beyond Christmas. “Not so,” she said, “we shall fly out.” I would not crawl inside a cannon for the Duchess of Richmond, let alone Mrs Pepys.


the resort. I then told her that I would think over her suggestion and went to the tavern for some Greenwich ale. Three hours later I returned to sing her a song I had composed: “The milkmaid and the scuba diver”. This, I averred, will delight all the gallants in the Indies bar.


houses in the Indies. Not so, she replied, there will be a bar there in Friday. Strange. My wife seems to have completely forgotten her holiday plans... My refusal became irrevocable when I considered that there are no ale


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