Sword

As expected, the Maundy coins were posted to the recipients by Royal Mail. The coins were blessed at the Chapel Royal before posting and the recipients would also be welcome at next year's service. They each received the following letter from the Queen.

The King holding scissors instead of sword variety.

I think there could be some truth in these T-shirts:

A related and simpler problem. You are in a boat with a lead weight. (See diagram. Imagine you are standing next to the weight). The Initial level of water was noted. You throw the lead weight overboard so that it sink to the bottom. What would happen to the water level?

Exactly.

Would it stay exactly the same though since everyone is worried about raising sea levels due to the melting of ice caps?

An old puzzle. You have one or more ice cubes in a glass of water. You use a pen to mark the initial water level. Then you let the ice melt completely. Would the new water level be higher or lower then before? (The red wordings read "original water level")

I am just hopeless with word puzzles. Long live logic and calculation challenges!

I think both spellings can be used but queuing has got more popular in recent decades. "Queueing can also be used as the continuous form" according to online Collins dictionary. Frequency in which the two spelling occur in books over the year.

Didn't think the BBC would be that desperate.

It certainly makes the set more interesting and stand out from the other routine year sets 🙂 Despite not a fan of modern year sets, I have got to say that the designs do look rather nice this time.

I thought "March" could be referring to the town of March. But I don't what the record refers to.

eat and past tense is ate

The letter m

That medal is not mine. I got an OBE first type instead and it was awarded to the industrialist James Carter Gray. The auction were selling his items and there was a silver salver too. Churchill recommended him for the award and sent him a signed letter of congratulations. The letter was sold at a specialist auction and went for a four figure sum.

I assume the likely option is to post them with a message from the Queen saying that she deeply regrets she is unable to distribute the coins this year. The monarch used to send such messages when the recipients of awards cannot be present at the ceremonies at Buckingham Palace.

By the way, did anyone manage to get a Brexit 50p in your change? I haven't but I have handled very little change in the last few months.

Thanks! I enjoyed doing that.

I tried to write out all the permutations and eliminate. All the RR or GG for student 2 have been eliminated and so I would make it RG for student 2. RR RR GG GG RR RG RG GG RR RG GG RG RR GG RR GG RR GG RG RG RR GG GG RR RG RR RG GG RG RR GG RG RG RG RR GG RG RG RG RG RG RG GG RR RG GG RR RG RG GG RG RR GG RR RR GG GG RR RG RG GG RR GG RR GG RG RR RG GG RG RG RR GG GG RR RR

The puzzle didn't say that each musician cannot part with their beloved instrument.

Man takes rabbit across. Then goes back and take dog across. Take Rabbit on second journey back. Leave Rabbit and take cabbage across. Go back and take Rabbit across.

C with D (10 minutes) D returns without his instrument (1 min) B and A (2 minutes) A returning (1 minutes) A and D without his instrument (1 mins) And you have 2 minutes to spare!

He might think that the barber with the neat hair cut used the other barber since there are only two of them in town.

No, that's not quite your style. If it came from Paddy, I might have done. :-)