C’mon, there’s bound to be a few of you, what with the love on the forum for Ms Coren-Mitchell.

I’ve bought the Mrs tickets for Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet next August at the Barbican for Christmas. As the tickets won’t arrive until about July, I’m going to get a few bits for her to unwrap on Christmas day that will serve as clues, in an Only Connect stylee, to her actual present.

I have three of the four clues I need, but I’m struggling with the fourth and need inspiration:

??? (For the Barbican)
A bottle of Benedictine
A cummerbund
A Hamlet cigar

Ideas on a postcard please. Or, ideally, on here…

Fourteen bras?
A gold rose?

Fourteen bras?
A gold rose?

Huh?

??? (For the Barbican)

Some people have too much spare time

Or not, your choice. 🙂

Very christmassy Rob 🙂

IHN – Member
Huh?

Instead of the cigar, obviously – much more romantic.
🙂

Too obvious:

Too stupid:

Too stupid:

Doubles up as a Cumberbatch clue though…

Done

Instead of the cigar, obviously – much more romantic

Huh?

Instead of the cigar, obviously – much more romantic

Huh?

You need to get into character before handing them over, obviously.

Not sure about the roses though – bit like saying ‘You’re dead to me…’.

Well you did ask for Only Connect…

Take two otters. Dip feet in white paint and place on adjacent sides of a red sheet. Turn music on loudly behind each causing them to scurry across said sheet, leaving it marked with a white cross.

Startled otter (Cumberbatch), prints of Denmark?

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxz6BDmTNU[/video]

Binners – I think it’s more:

prints of Denmark

That’s actually a decent idea.

linky

That’s actually a decent idea.

It is, you’re right. Hmmm…..

Or one of these:

🙂

Nope, Rusty, you’ve lost me…

Characters from Hamlet:

Fortinbras.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Laertes.

I was going to stick an Osric Tentacles album up next, or a picture of Ving Rhames as Marcellus Wallace.

I really should have gone for Horned Viper.
🙂

There we go.

(Salman Rushdie said Robert Ludlum would have called the drama ‘The Elsinore Vacillation’. I consider this to be a bit funny. In context.)

Right, done:

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/vintage_travel_flag_day_denmark_postcard-239798599318016257

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/summer_day_at_the_south_beach_of_skagen_1884_postcard-239689581370293686

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/denmark_hanover_brunswick_mecklenburg_postcard-239206540678826564

Remember the can of fish. It’s a Christmas delicacy not to be missed:

http://www.scandikitchen.co.uk/product/oskars-surstromming-475g/

When did you get your tickets IHN?

Completely sold out now….. 😐

This morning, there are still some available if you buy them as part of a tickets + hotel deal.

Ta!

EDIT –
Ouch – bit rich for me.

You sir, are a prince amongst men – I hope you’ve put a decent Christmas list together for yourself.

This photo, printed out.

Ouch – bit rich for me.

You sir, are a prince amongst men – I hope you’ve put a decent Christmas list together for yourself.

To be honest, I was a bit dim and thought the proce I saw was the package price, only when I’d booked did I realise it was per person 🙄

Ah well, that’s what credit cards are for. Gusess it’s my present too 🙂

This photo, printed out.

Errrr…. I do get it, obviously, but would you like to explain it for the rest of the class?

Errrr…. I do get it, obviously, but would you like to explain it for the rest of the class?

A Barbican is a gate outer wall of a castle/citadel or a fortification on a bridge. That’s Walmgate Bar in York – I think.

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It’ll double up as a tasty alternative Xmas dinner…

verses – that was one of the options I considered 🙂

Sticking with the food theme…

A coke can, filled with honey and with a Yorkie dipped in it would give you…

A (chocolate) bar-bee-can (of coke).