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DOWN TO A TEA TOWEL When it comes to identifying your garden visitors, this is the bees knees. It's a handy guide to what plants they like to make a beeline for, too. £5.95 from rexlondon.com. RED HERRINGS Fill in the gaps with letters to find the names of eight Olympic events. Two of them are red herrings. All the answers have eight letters. (answers on page 124) “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in” Robert Louis Stevenson First seen at the 1920 games, devised by Pierre de Coubertin, modern Olympics’ ‘father’. The rings are the five continents taking part; the colours (plus white background) cover all those on flags of teams then competing. WHAT TO DO WITH… BEACH BALLS PLAYFUL: What games can’t you play given a beach ball…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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