Tesco vouchers for Frank Osen this week. Wins for Bill Greenwell and me.
No 4236
Set by Leonora Casement
We want you to send us letters of apology to people to whom you have misdirected a present meant for another of very different tastes. To inspire you, here is a winner from the 1950s: “My dear Uncle, just how bewildered, and indignant, you must be at receiving two Georgian candlesticks, I can well imagine. In extenuation, I ask you to picture my dismay when I discovered my error in addressing Jane’s present to you, to whom I’d hardly be likely to offer something secondhand! . . .”
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