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Summer Assignments 2017

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Results Week 9 - Flower Power  

1st.  Target in Plain Sight (No. 9) Nick Thornton (29 pts)
2nd. Opium Poppy - Power of Analgesia (No.5) Terry Verrinder (23 pts)
3rd.  Make Love not War (No. 3) Nick Pursey (22 pts)
1. Explosion
2. Make Love not War
3. Fleur de Lights
4. Clean Energy
5. Opium Poppy - The Power of Analgesia
6. Flour Power
7. The Water Lily
8. Give Peace a Chance
9. Target in plain sight
Summer Assignments League Table after Week 9 (final)
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Results Week 8 - Park Life

1st.   Watch the Birdie (No.4)  Terry Verrinder (35 pts)
2nd.  High Five (No.2) Mike Baker (25 pts)
2nd.  The Duck Race (No.5) Nick Thornton  (25 pts)
1. Playtime at Porthceri Park
2. High Five, well four and a half actually
3. Bark Life - Bark in a Park
4. Watch the birdie
5. The Duck Race
6. It's past their bedtime
7. Escaping the park life
8. Parc Owain
Summer Assignments League Table after Week 8
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Results Week 7 - Mechanical Muse

1st.   No. 1  - Bideford's Cri de coeur (27pts) - Gerald Harbour
2nd.  No. 4  - One Lady Owner (19pts) - Mike Baker
3rd.  No. 3  - Transformers (17pts) - Terry Verrinder
1. "Bideford's" Cri de coeur
2. The Vale Chainsaw Massacre
3. Transformers
4. One Lady Owner
5. Haymaking at the Show
6. Well Oiled
7. 1 Man Power
8. Artist's Brush Cleaner
9. The very latest hybrid
10. Meet Hectagon the landscape transformer

Summer Assignments League Table after Week 7

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Results Week 6 - Animal Magic

1st.   No. 8  - Ok, What have you done with the rabbit (29pts) - Nick Pursey
1st.  No. 9  - At home with the Two Ronnies (29pts) - Nick Craddock
3rd.  No. 7  - Sausage on a stick (28pts) - Nick Thornton
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There were only 3 points between the top 5 images this week and the top three were all by Nicks !
1. Scale and polish as usual sir
2. Up and Over
3. No, I am not going in!
4. Look deep into my eyes
5. Assessing the business end
6. This way, no this way
7. Sausage on a Stick
8. OK, what have you done with my rabbit?
9. At Home with the Two Ronnies
10. Bedtime
Summer Assignments League Table after Week 6
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Results Week 5 - By the Seaside

1st. Gone Swimming (No. 5) - Peter Dennis ( 27 points)
1st. A Sunny Moment (No.10) - Nick Thornton ( 27 points)
​3rd. Fetch my Towel grandad (No.3) - Matt Fallows (25 points)
1. Maybe just a paddle then
2. Bl**dy humans!
3. Fetch my towel grandad
4. C'mon in, the water's fine!
5. Gone Swimming
6. Ethereal Land Ahoy
7. The Call of the Sea
8. Early morning landing by the seaside
9. More than a beach shelter
10. A Sunny Moment

Summer Assignments League Table after week 5

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Results Week 4 - Riches of the Land

1st. Chilli Pepper variety Moneymaker (No. 4) - Terry Verrinder (35 points)
2nd. Sun Ripened (No.2) - Peter Dennis (29 points)
​3rd. Beouf Bourguinnone (No.3) - Gerald Harbour (25 points)
1. Barley Today, Beer Tomorrow
2. Sun-ripened
3. Boeuf Bourguinnone
4. Chilli Pepper, variety Moneymaker
5. Bonanza
6. Gifts from the garden
7. Ripening Blackberries
8. Riches in the counting house
9. First Harvest

Summer Assignments League Table after week 4 

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Results Week 3 - Summer in the City

1st.   All set for fun at the Bay (No. 2) - Mike Baker (40 points)
2nd.  It ain't half hot Mum (No. 6) - Nick Thornton (38 points)
​3rd.  A little light refreshment (No. 5) - Terry Verrinder (35 points)
1. Cardiff Bay
2. All set for fun at the Bay
3. Drink in the Sunshine
4. Not needed today
5. A Little Light Refreshment
6. It ain't half hot Mum
7. So that's why they wanted to go to Cardiff
8. View from Ally Pally
9. City with a beach
10. Sunshine City
Summer Assignments League Table after week 3
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Results Week 2 Sporting Life

1st.   No.11 Sporting Life by Nick Thornton
2nd.  No. 9 Polo Chase by Nick Craddock
3rd.   No. 5 The Chase by Terry Verrinder
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1. Photo-finish !
2. Clear Round Coming Up
3. In the peloton
4. Identification Required
5. The Chase
6. Looking Down the Barrel
7. Propping up the podium people
8. It's in the blood
9. Polo Chase
10. Taking the Plunge
11. Sporting Life
12. Shooting Deer, a sport for some?

Summer Assignments League Table after week 2

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Results Week 1 Blue Sky Thinking

Congratulation to Mike Baker for a convincing win with:
"I think that was a bit close, Captain" (No. 3)
Joint 2nd were:
Mark Lunn with "Inspiration, Realisation" (No. 7)
​Peter Dennis with "Mind Blowing" (No. 4)
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1. Blaenavon Blast Furnace
2. Floating on High
3. I think that was a bit close, Captain
4. Mind-blowing
5. I'm thinking blue sky
6. Outside the box
7. Inspiration - Realisation
8. Flying without wings
9. Elder Tree
10. A Different Perspective
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