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Enigmatic Bristolians I suppose we’d better add Sun Ra and George Clinton to Neil Nixon’s roster in Forum [FT449:54]. On a more frivolous note, early Glastonians Stackridge have a bonus track on their 1972 album Friendliness called “Purple Spaceships Over Yatton”. As the same LP contains a reference to Annie Besant “Dusting Her Mausoleum”, I think we can consider these enigmatic Bristolians a little au fait. (I’m assuming, by the way, that “dusting your mausoleum” isn’t a sexual innuendo.) Richard George St Albans, Hertfordshire Oysters Barry Baldwin may know a lot about the Classics but not very much about nutrition. In FT450:11 he states about oysters: “Inevitably, they were prized as aphrodisiacs, a long-lasting delusion.” Oysters contain the most zinc, weight for weight, of any other food. Zinc is required…

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