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THURSDAY, JANUARY <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2025</strong><br />

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Easing traffic woes a<br />

high priority for <strong>2025</strong><br />

• By Jack Ward<br />

FINDING A safe fix to ease<br />

traffic flow through Hornby<br />

is a key priority this year for<br />

the Greater Hornby Residents<br />

Association.<br />

Chair Derek<br />

Phelps said<br />

congestion is not<br />

new, but a continual<br />

problem.<br />

“Traffic is<br />

a nightmare.<br />

(There’s) no<br />

foreseeable plan<br />

– the motorway<br />

was supposed to<br />

Derek<br />

Phelps<br />

take 40-60% of traffic flow, but<br />

nothing I’ve seen shows that is<br />

the case.<br />

“I’ve been on this for the last<br />

five years and will keep bringing<br />

it up in mayoral forums.”<br />

Phelps said at the last mayoral<br />

forum on November 19 when he<br />

raised the subject of a traffic plan<br />

for Greater Hornby, a council<br />

staff member told him not to<br />

expect an answer anytime soon.<br />

“It is a sad state when you have<br />

Hornby as a gateway south from<br />

the airport and it’s the first thing<br />

travellers see because if you come<br />

south you have to go through<br />

Hornby.<br />

“The worst time is around<br />

3pm when school is out. Before<br />

Christmas, Main South Rd was<br />

STANDSTILL: Easing traffic congestion is high on the agenda for the Greater Hornby<br />

Residents Association.<br />

PHOTO: JACK WARD<br />

bumper to bumper from Carmen<br />

Rd past Neils St and at times<br />

backed up to Springs Rd.”<br />

Hornby councillor Mark Peters<br />

said easing traffic woes was also<br />

on his agenda this year.<br />

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“It is on my radar to improve<br />

safety in the touchpoints in the<br />

Hornby area through visibility<br />

and planning, and how we can<br />

take our city centre back.”<br />

Peters would like more engagement<br />

with New Zealand Transport<br />

Agency (NZTA).<br />

He said Hornby was mentioned<br />

by NZTA in its 2024-27<br />

National Land Transport Programme<br />

(in regards to improving<br />

safety at intersections on SH1<br />

and reducing delays caused by<br />

crashes).<br />

Phelps said the residents<br />

association has a really good<br />

relationship with<br />

Peters.<br />

“We have<br />

constant communications,<br />

he comes to<br />

all meetings<br />

and even pours<br />

the tea at the<br />

monthly market<br />

– he is fighting<br />

for the good of Hornby.”<br />

Mark<br />

Peters<br />

An annual calendar was being<br />

finalised, Phelps said.<br />

It would include events such as<br />

fun days, kids’ disco nights, and<br />

an Easter egg hunt.<br />

The first meeting of the year<br />

for the Greater Hornby Residents<br />

Association is on <strong>January</strong> 26 at<br />

2pm. Meetings are held on the<br />

last Sunday of the month at the<br />

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Thursday, 10am-2pm<br />

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Are you a Mahjong expert?<br />

Wanting to meet other experienced<br />

players? Come along to Hornby<br />

Library on Thursdays and use our<br />

Mahjong equipment. Our table and<br />

equipment is available for use between<br />

the hours of 10am-2pm.<br />

Minecraft Build Challenge –<br />

8-12 years<br />

Friday, 10am-noon<br />

Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre<br />

Join us for a two hour Minecraft Build<br />

Challenge these school holidays!<br />

Unleash your creativity, build amazing<br />

structures, and make new friends.<br />

Special information: Basic game<br />

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Ages: 8-12 years. Cost: $11.14 including<br />

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Reflect & Ride Workshop:<br />

Design your Own Custom<br />

Safety Vest – 8-12 years<br />

Monday, 10.30am-1pm<br />

Mataiki Hornby Centre<br />

Imagine designing your very own<br />

bike safety vest with custom reflective<br />

vinyl! Use basic digital art skills to<br />

design and cut reflective vinyl for a<br />

safety vest. Heat press your custom<br />

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and ride safely in style on your next<br />

Pool Party – Dive-in Movie, Saturday, Noon-5pm, Te Hāpua: Halswell<br />

Centre. Round up your friends and whānau for an epic evening. This year’s<br />

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groove with a live DJ and MC from YCD. Settle in for Inside Out 2 on the big<br />

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painting, and get a free ice cream, courtesy of Streets, while supplies last.<br />

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Safety vests provided. Ages: 8-12 years.<br />

Cost: $27.00 including booking fee.<br />

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Wednesday, 10-11.30am<br />

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Drop in and have a go with our<br />

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space at Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre.<br />

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Door Décor – 5-12 years<br />

Monday, 2.30-3.30pm<br />

Matatiki Hornby Centre<br />

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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2025</strong> 3<br />

Stitching for a cause part of<br />

healing journey for Heather<br />

• By Jack Ward<br />

HEATHER SMITH has been<br />

through dark times during her<br />

life.<br />

But those days have passed<br />

and sewing has been a big part<br />

of the 68-year-old’s recovery.<br />

On Saturday, Heather will lead<br />

a sewing bee in a bid to make<br />

120 sensory mats for students<br />

at Ferndale School – a specialist<br />

school for students with varying<br />

levels of special needs.<br />

“Sewing helps me keep the<br />

mental demons away. It gives me<br />

something to focus on and it is<br />

therapeutic,” she said.<br />

Her mental demons stem from<br />

four years of domestic abuse<br />

she suffered while living in<br />

the Australian Outback before<br />

returning to Christchurch three<br />

years ago.<br />

The St Martins resident had<br />

been based in Australia for<br />

28 years working as a music<br />

therapist performing for<br />

dementia patients in hospitals<br />

and rest homes, which gave her<br />

an idea – making sensory mats.<br />

A sensory mat is an interactive<br />

surface that engages the senses<br />

through different textures,<br />

colours, and patterns. They can<br />

deliver a calming effect for users<br />

GOOD CAUSE: Rachael Okey (left) and Heather Smith with<br />

a completed sensory mat from their first sewing bee.<br />

and help to relieve tension.<br />

“I started making sensory<br />

mats for dementia patients at<br />

Christchurch Hospital as a way<br />

to keep people calm,” she said.<br />

Heather made 80 mats herself.<br />

From there, she put out a<br />

call for help and people started<br />

offering donated materials.<br />

This is where Rachael Okey<br />

joined in.<br />

Okey has 35 years of sewing<br />

experience and runs Sew Far<br />

Sew Good studio in Hoon Hay.<br />

“I saw on a local community<br />

page that Heather was looking<br />

for bits and pieces so I reached<br />

out and said ‘let’s get together to<br />

do some sewing and education at<br />

the same time’,” Okey said.<br />

“It is pretty cool. I’m a firm<br />

believer that if you learn a skill<br />

you should share it. There is a<br />

huge amount of joy from making<br />

something for someone else.”<br />

The first sewing bee in<br />

September yielded 28 sensory<br />

mats with up to eight people<br />

working at any one time.<br />

Heather said the team wanted<br />

to do more.<br />

Her daughter-in-law Sharon<br />

de Garnham, a teacher aide<br />

at Ferndale, saw the mats and<br />

suggested making some for the<br />

students there.<br />

“She thought they would be<br />

wonderful as a learning aide<br />

for (teaching) how to dress,”<br />

Heather said.<br />

The mats will be equipped<br />

with zips, clips, button-holes,<br />

and laces to tie, which will help<br />

the students learn important<br />

skills.<br />

Going forward, Heather<br />

has two full bookshelves of<br />

donations to keep her busy<br />

long after the sewing bee as<br />

she continues her focus on<br />

supporting others.<br />

“Sewing gives me structure<br />

and helping other people helps<br />

me.”<br />

• The sewing bee is on<br />

this Saturday with sessions<br />

at 1.30, 3.00 and 4.30pm.<br />

Bookings can be made<br />

via the Sew Far So Good<br />

Facebook page<br />

Appeal<br />

for help<br />

finding<br />

plaques<br />

A RESIDENT is asking for help<br />

tracking down missing plaques<br />

stolen from historic sites.<br />

Leslie Gilder told chrislynchmedia.com<br />

she was shocked to<br />

discover the plaques, including<br />

one bought by the citizens of<br />

Christchurch in December 1963<br />

for Ashgrove Reserve in Somerfield,<br />

had gone missing.<br />

Gilder told chrislynchmedia.<br />

com an Addington Cemetery<br />

plaque commemorating the<br />

lives lost to deadly diseases<br />

like typhoid in the 1880s was<br />

also missing, as was a drinking<br />

fountain at Dickens Street<br />

Reserve, Addington, and another<br />

plaque in Ruskin Reserve,<br />

Addington.<br />

Gilder said the plaques were<br />

likely stolen but she believes<br />

scrap metal dealers in the city<br />

would recognise them.<br />

City council head of parks<br />

Rupert Bool told chrislynchmedia.com:<br />

“We take these<br />

incidents seriously, recording all<br />

reported thefts and allocating<br />

an annual budget for plaque<br />

renewal or replacement to<br />

preserve our shared heritage.”<br />

Bin good with recycling<br />

These are the only items that can go in the yellow bin<br />

Lids in<br />

the red<br />

bin<br />

Clean cardboard and paper<br />

(now including empty pizza boxes)<br />

Clean food and drink<br />

tins and cans<br />

Clean plastic bottles and containers<br />

(4 litres and under, numbered 1, 2 and 5)<br />

Clean glass bottles<br />

and jars<br />

Remember to rinse your containers before putting them in the yellow bin. All lids go in the red bin.<br />

Download our free Christchurch Bins app<br />

to keep up to date with your rubbish and<br />

recycling information.<br />

Thanks for bin good.<br />

Find out more at<br />

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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2025</strong> 5<br />

Elephant slide<br />

brought to life<br />

in children’s book<br />

FIFTY YEARS after it was built,<br />

the elephant slide in Bishopdale<br />

Park has been immortalised in a<br />

new children’s book.<br />

Elephant Park tells the story of<br />

Elly the elephant, who is feeling<br />

a bit tired and run down. A little<br />

boy invites her home for the<br />

weekend and with his dad’s help,<br />

Elly receives a makeover and a<br />

new lease on life.<br />

Author Melanie Koster was<br />

inspired by the way renowned<br />

writer Margaret Mahy often<br />

blurred the line between fact and<br />

fiction in her books.<br />

“My early childhood was spent<br />

on the West Coast but when<br />

we came over to visit family<br />

in Christchurch, my sister and<br />

I would meet our cousins at<br />

Bishopdale Park and spend hours<br />

playing on the elephant slide.<br />

“When we moved to Christchurch,<br />

I was delighted our new<br />

home was a quick bike ride from<br />

both the Bishopdale Library and<br />

‘Elephant Park’ as we called it.<br />

Having spent many happy hours<br />

playing on the slide as a child,<br />

I had fun imagining what this<br />

inanimate object might do or say<br />

if it had a voice,” Koster said.<br />

Twenty-one months after the<br />

idea was seeded the finished book<br />

was published with Scholastic<br />

NZ. It is illustrated by Jenny<br />

Cooper.<br />

It wasn’t until after publication<br />

that Melanie discovered the<br />

origin of the famous slide. It was<br />

the brainchild of Alida Pickard,<br />

who had come second in a local<br />

schools’ competition.<br />

Said Pickard: “In the 1970s my<br />

family and I were living in Stretton<br />

St and attending Burnside<br />

High School. Bishopdale was a<br />

new subdivision back then, so<br />

they were developing a sports<br />

ground and a playground.<br />

“There was a competition for<br />

children in the area to submit<br />

ideas for what they wanted, and<br />

as I have a passion for elephants,<br />

I decided to make a paper mâché<br />

elephant with the idea of it being<br />

a slide or for climbing on.<br />

“I was delighted when they<br />

picked my elephant as second<br />

place. I received a Canterbury<br />

Savings Bank Account with $5 as<br />

my prize – plus my elephant got<br />

built, with a slide going up and<br />

over top of her. I was very proud.<br />

“I watched her being built and<br />

loved that she sat at the front of<br />

the park where we could see her<br />

every time we drove past. Over<br />

the years my son and then my<br />

grandchildren have played on her<br />

plus many of my friends and their<br />

children and grandchildren.”<br />

Thousands of children have<br />

whizzed down the slide in the<br />

half-century since 1974.<br />

SLIDING INTO HISTORY:<br />

Author Melanie Koster in<br />

front of the elephant slide<br />

that inspired her children’s<br />

book, Elephant Park. ​<br />

Right – with slide creator<br />

Alida Pickard.<br />

PHOTOS: CCC<br />

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6<br />

Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2025</strong><br />

continuing education<br />

It’s never too<br />

late for music<br />

Are you an adult who learned an<br />

rock bands – something for everyone.<br />

instrument in your childhood but gave Our adult students tell us that getting<br />

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a musical instrument but never had the something new is good for the brain,<br />

opportunity? Well , it’s not too late! activating neural pathways, strengthening<br />

The Christchurch School of Music, Te motor skills and and bringing about a sense<br />

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instruments and has lots of ensembles that are formed and there is always lots of<br />

adults of all ages and stages can join. There laughter.<br />

are orchestras, wind ensembles, a string Find out more at csm.org.nz or contact<br />

ensemble, concert band, jazz bands and us on office@csm.org.nz<br />

Make <strong>2025</strong> your year<br />

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Why read the Bible? It’s such an old<br />

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Courses run during term times on<br />

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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2025</strong> 7<br />

continuing education<br />

Focus on learning for fun<br />

Do you seek intellectual challenge in<br />

history, philosophy, science or politics?<br />

Does the idea of a new hobby, like<br />

photography or drawing appeal to you?<br />

Would you like to explore cuisines from<br />

other cultures or health through your diet?<br />

This year why not make learning part of<br />

your life through a course at the WEA?<br />

Participants describe WEA as:<br />

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• with highly qualified tutors, eager to<br />

share knowledge<br />

• excellent value for money<br />

• having improved their knowledge, skills<br />

and confidence.<br />

CWEA has successfully provided<br />

community-based education, in a central<br />

location, for over 100 years. Whatever your<br />

Papanui High School is one of the<br />

longest standing providers of Community<br />

Education Courses in Christchurch and<br />

New Zealand. Our proud history of catering<br />

for the lifelong learning needs of Adult<br />

Students started in 1937.<br />

The sight of our beautiful,<br />

historic main building lit<br />

up at night has greeted<br />

our Night Class students<br />

for over 87 years. Papanui<br />

is renowned for offering<br />

a diverse array of quality<br />

evening courses and<br />

weekend workshops,<br />

and Term 1 <strong>2025</strong> is no<br />

exception.<br />

Along with our ever<br />

popular Watercolour<br />

interest we are sure to find classes that suit<br />

your timetable, budget and style of learning.<br />

Term 1 begins 29th <strong>January</strong> <strong>2025</strong>. Discover<br />

more at www.cwea.org.nz. Also onsite is<br />

our newly opened second-hand Bookshop:<br />

WE Are Books. Browse the shelves and<br />

find some book bargains! Monday-Friday,<br />

10am-3pm. Saturdays 11-3pm<br />

Italian Singers performing at the<br />

North West Branch Christmas function<br />

Term 1 Night Classes at Papanui<br />

Painting, Sewing, Cooking and Woodwork<br />

courses, new in Term 1 are Wine and Food<br />

Matching, Strength2Balance Exercise, and<br />

Small Business Set-up and Skills. Weekend<br />

Workshops include our popular Barista<br />

Weekend Workshop,<br />

Basket Weaving, An<br />

Introduction to Genealogy<br />

and Making Beeswax<br />

Wraps.<br />

Term 1 courses begin<br />

the week of 10 February.<br />

For a complete list of<br />

courses and to enrol,<br />

visit our website, https://<br />

www.papanui.school.nz/<br />

adult-education phone<br />

03 3520701 or email<br />

ace@papanui.school.nz.<br />

New Year and New<br />

Courses at Risingholme<br />

Enrolments are open for Risingholme’s<br />

<strong>2025</strong> courses. Take a look at what’s on offer<br />

and come learn with us!<br />

The new programme offers an extensive<br />

array of courses designed for individuals at<br />

all stages of life. Whether you’re seeking to<br />

enhance your professional skills, explore a<br />

new hobby, or engage in creative pursuits,<br />

our diverse range of courses cater to a variety<br />

of interests and can help enhance your<br />

overall wellbeing.<br />

Some of the new courses on offer next year<br />

include:<br />

• Budgeting Tips: The current cost of<br />

living crisis has contributed to financial<br />

stress for many people. In this 3-week course<br />

you’ll dive into your money goals, find<br />

strategies to manage debt, reduce expenses,<br />

and make a financial plan that you can<br />

implement straightaway.<br />

• Printmaking for Beginners Workshop:<br />

Make your own stamps and stamp pads<br />

with recycled materials, try monotype<br />

printing and more! With an emphasis on<br />

experimentation and fun, this course will<br />

be a friendly introduction to printmaking<br />

without the need for specialist equipment.<br />

• The Art of Smocking: Smocking is<br />

used in everything from babies’ clothes,<br />

floaty summer dresses, and home décor<br />

like cushions. This course will teach you<br />

basic smocking stitches to help you make a<br />

decoration or item of clothing.<br />

• Introduction to GarageBand for Mac:<br />

Great for those interested in podcasting<br />

and sound editing! Learn to put audio and<br />

sound effects on to a video clip, record and<br />

edit yourself or a friend singing or playing<br />

an instrument and create a multi-track<br />

recording.<br />

• Plaster Mould Making 101 Workshop:<br />

This 2-week workshop will teach you to<br />

make a model for a mould using sculpture<br />

construction methods and make moulds<br />

using readymade objects.<br />

• Creative Visual Story Workshop: Have<br />

you got a poem you’ve wanted to expand on<br />

and colour in? Do you have delicious recipes<br />

that need illustrations? Or a short story to<br />

illustrate? This 2-week workshop will teach<br />

you to translate the written word into hand<br />

drawn pictures using the French ‘aux trois<br />

crayon’ technique to bring your ideas to life.<br />

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education, Risingholme’s Director, Lynda<br />

Megson, notes that “lifelong learning is not<br />

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deeply committed to realising and is part of<br />

our purpose as an organisation to exist at the<br />

heart of wider learning communities. For<br />

many of our learners, lifelong learning is a<br />

pathway to personal and professional growth<br />

that is deeply rewarding. It provides people<br />

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the individual but our communities too.”<br />

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courses and enrol by heading to<br />

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Risingholme team in person at their<br />

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8<br />

Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2025</strong><br />

CROSSWORD<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />

9 10<br />

383<br />

SUDOKU<br />

Every row, column and box should<br />

contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

WORDBUILDER<br />

283<br />

6<br />

B E D<br />

N L O<br />

11 12<br />

13 14 15 <strong>16</strong> 17<br />

18 19 20<br />

How many words of three or more letters,<br />

How including many plurals, words can you of make three from or the more six<br />

letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />

words or words beginning with a capital are<br />

allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.<br />

once?<br />

TODAY<br />

Good 17 Very Good 26 Excellent 36<br />

Solution 282: bel, berm, blue, bluer, blur, bum,<br />

bur, burl, elm, emu, lemur, leu, lube, LUMBER, lure,<br />

mule, rub, rube, ruble, rue, rule, rum, RUMBLE,<br />

word.<br />

umbel, umber.<br />

letters, including plurals, can you make<br />

from the six letters, using each only<br />

No words beginning with a capital are<br />

allowed. There’s at least one six-letter<br />

Good 17 Very Good 26 Excellent 36<br />

21 22 23 24<br />

25 26<br />

27 28<br />

Across<br />

1. Green vegetable (7)<br />

5. Female line (7)<br />

9. Bitter or pungent (5)<br />

10. Custom (9)<br />

11. Clement (9)<br />

12. Surmise (5)<br />

13. Vomit (5)<br />

15. ‘Don’t look a __ __ in the mouth’<br />

(4,5)<br />

18. Capitulate (9)<br />

19. Gradually reduce (5)<br />

21. Aromatic spice (5)<br />

23. Silly or superficial (9)<br />

25. Devoted (9)<br />

26. Fight (5)<br />

27. Postponed (7)<br />

28. Neither here nor there (7)<br />

Decoder<br />

Down<br />

1. Section of a book (7)<br />

2. Weather gauge (9)<br />

3. Mix up, confuse (5)<br />

4. Alienated (9)<br />

5. Male duck (5)<br />

6. Catapult (9)<br />

7. Nimble (5)<br />

8. Flair (7)<br />

14. Public clamouring (3,3,3)<br />

<strong>16</strong>. Prohibited (9)<br />

17. Unprincipled (9)<br />

18. Broke away (7)<br />

20. Determination (7)<br />

22. Prototype (5)<br />

23. Foul-smelling (5)<br />

24. U-shaped bend in a river (5)<br />

Crossword<br />

Across: 1. Cabbage, 5.<br />

Distaff, 9. Acrid, 10. Tradition,<br />

11. Temperate, 12. Guess,<br />

13. Retch, 15. Gift horse,<br />

18. Surrender, 19. Taper, 21.<br />

Cumin, 23. Frivolous, 25.<br />

Dedicated, 26. Brawl, 27.<br />

Delayed, 28. Nowhere.<br />

Down: 1. Chapter, 2.<br />

Barometer, 3. Addle, 4.<br />

Estranged, 5. Drake, 6.<br />

Slingshot, 7. Agile, 8.<br />

Finesse, 14. Hue and cry, <strong>16</strong>.<br />

Forbidden, 17. Reprobate, 18.<br />

Seceded, 20. Resolve, 22.<br />

Model, 23. Fetid, 24. Oxbow.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

bed, bel, ben, bend, bled,<br />

blend, blond, BLONDE,<br />

bode, bold, bole, bond,<br />

bone, boned, den, dob, doe,<br />

dole, don, done, ebon, eld,<br />

end, eon, led, lend, lob,<br />

lobe, lobed, lode, loden,<br />

lone, neb, noble, nod, node,<br />

ode, old, olden, one.<br />

Sudoku<br />

DECODER<br />

Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the<br />

given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out<br />

which letters are represented by the other numbers.<br />

All puzzles copyright<br />

T H E P U Z Z L E C O M P A N Y<br />

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