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Homeless Kodo Apr 2021 11:14am, 13 Apr 2021 1,486 posts	0 Homeless Kodo Most male Reindeer shed their antlers in late autumn/ early winter after the rut, older males shed theirs as late as December, female Reindeer shed theirs in the summer. Rudolph and the team getting Santa round on 24th December are female.
Diogenes Apr 2021 11:42am, 13 Apr 2021 59,117 posts	0 Diogenes 13th of April is an International’’ Imposter Syndrome Awareness Day’’
Dvorak Apr 2021 3:21pm, 13 Apr 2021 22,270 posts	0 Dvorak I'm surprised that someone managed to feel able to declare that, Dio.
DoricQuine Apr 2021 3:25pm, 13 Apr 2021 5,626 posts	0 DoricQuine That I had £50 credit sitting in an account I didn't know about.
Ocelot Spleens Apr 2021 5:36pm, 13 Apr 2021 30,717 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens that there is vegan spam.
WtnMel Apr 2021 6:06pm, 13 Apr 2021 2,156 posts	0 WtnMel [Spam, spam, spam - wonderful spam 🎵 ]
Eynsham Red Apr 2021 6:32pm, 13 Apr 2021 7,462 posts	0 Eynsham Red [Mine goes in a box]
WtnMel Apr 2021 11:57am, 14 Apr 2021 2,162 posts	0 WtnMel "Aits" = small islands .. another word we've just learnt from doing a crossword. Our original guess was "Ayot" but as it wasn't a plural, we figured that couldn't be right and obviously, it wasn't. We had to look up the correct answer .. Very (h)educational these crosswords ..
Badger Apr 2021 1:08pm, 14 Apr 2021 13,748 posts	0 Badger There are some aits in the Thames - we used a centre on one for 5-year review strategy planning (quite hard to get interrupted in a place where you need a boat to get there), and I know someone with a houseboat moored off another. Don't remember ever coming across the word outside those two.
swittle Apr 2021 1:50pm, 14 Apr 2021 74,674 posts	0 swittle eyot is a variant on 'ait', as discussed. OE, iggath, diminutive, from ieg, an island. [Oxford Conc. Dict.] Chiswick Eyot, from boar race commentary, springs to mind.