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ONE FOOT IN THE GROVE — having paid deposit on suburban house.

Dave Cullen, Alwoodley, Leeds. EIGER COUNTER — mountain adder.

Mrs Sylvia Dugard, Witney, Oxon. AS YOU BIKE IT — price of petrol’s gone up again.

A. Poulton, Dorchester, Dorset. FISH AND CHOPS — formerly surf and turf.

R. Gamble, Woodley, Cheshire. GOING IN FOR THE KRILL — the blue whale’s favourite food.

A. Dean, Keighley, W. Yorks. NOAH’S ARC — the rainbow after the flood.

Valerie Fish, Whittlesey, Cambs.