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Calthrop

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Cheers. Another easy one methinks.

How one got between Norway and South Africa for a few pence.

Ore? -- one gathers that the Norwegian currency unit, the krone, is divided into 100 ore (accent on the "o" which I can't do) -- ore, amount to a very small and trifling value. (Don't know how South Africa fits in.)
 

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Ore? -- one gathers that the Norwegian currency unit, the krone, is divided into 100 ore (accent on the "o" which I can't do) -- ore, amount to a very small and trifling value. (Don't know how South Africa fits in.)
Not Ore. Nothing to do with currency. Try using the international codes for those countries to form part of an anagram.
 

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Try this one which I rate as easy.

He's so enthusiastic about them that we call him a keen bus bore.

With all due respect, I'd venture to suggest that in this, you rate wrongly -- 22 hours gone by, with no response. Just to have something happening -- here's a totally daft suggestion. The answer-station is Wokingham.

In old-fashioned poetic speech, people -- especially women -- "keen" = lament, when something dire has happened -- they make their noise in response to woe.

In Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, there's a coach-and-minibus-hire firm called BusKing Ltd.

A male pig is a boar ("bore") -- the meat "ham", is most often derived from the pig.

So -- keen = WOE. Bus, as explained, = KING. Bore = HAM. -- WOKINGHAM.

Now try us with something difficult <D !
 

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With all due respect, I'd venture to suggest that in this, you rate wrongly -- 22 hours gone by, with no response. Just to have something happening -- here's a totally daft suggestion. The answer-station is Wokingham.

In old-fashioned poetic speech, people -- especially women -- "keen" = lament, when something dire has happened -- they make their noise in response to woe.

In Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, there's a coach-and-minibus-hire firm called BusKing Ltd.

A male pig is a boar ("bore") -- the meat "ham", is most often derived from the pig.

So -- keen = WOE. Bus, as explained, = KING. Bore = HAM. -- WOKINGHAM.

Now try us with something difficult <D !
I thought it was an anagram of "a keen bus bore" but I can't get anything from it.
 

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Ah, thank you for the nudge. I've been waiting for confirmation that Bekesbourne was the correct answer; that message isn't showing up on my computer for some reason.

I can't think of anything at the moment and I think you've been waiting long enough, so open floor!
 

Calthrop

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On exercise in Britain's wild west: I ring y'r squad, confused lieutenant -- itching to use his mobile -- tells sergeant.
 

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Cheers. Another one I rate as easy.

Service cancelled due to a power cut. How the dyslexic vicar described it.
 

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Looks like another hint is needed.

It's on a heritage railway.

Bicester, David Cr. [Crescent] -- on a short, and little-known, heritage operation running eastward on the Varsity Line, from Bicester Village :D ?
 

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