A big birthday present for the fiesty septuagenarian who turned 75 on Monday this week.

Pinter is one of the two contemporary British playwrights that I admire most - the other being Tom Stoppard. Been to a few productions of the Pinter plays both in the Edinburgh Fringe festival and London's West End. The most popular of his plays include 'Ashes to Ashes', 'Homecoming', 'No Man's Land' etc but my personal best is ''Old Times' - which according to his biographer Michael Billington, is 'a work of beautiful elegiac obliquity'. Whatever that means!

An enormously fulfilling year for Pinter and indeed for British theatre. 29 plays under his belt, he's recently embarked on a new project - a radio play in collaboration with the composer James Clarke. It was aired on BBC Radio 3 on Monday to coincide with his birthday. The delectable Indira Varma - Meera Nair's protagonist in her film, 'Kama Sutra' - has a part in it.

Congratulations are in order for this good old 'pain in the arse' (by his own admission, mind you!)!!

About to give up to the 'rose' mystery!

Hehehe back to rose..:D hmm oki oki just for you...:D S..........N. Now you know where abouts and everything...ajha pani if you cant find then..join air force...:D

nirman..... good to see you mate..

You will have to read the thousand posts above to get the gist of it.. :)

Nirman auau timipani...:D guess gara ta...

So sir? any luck? Looks like aja ghar jani plan chaina jasto cha cool cool.... :P

त्यो नयाँ सफ्टवेयर छ नि, "गुगल अर्थ" भुन्छ क्यारे, त्यो बाट खोजुम्, लाहुरे दाइ, भेटि पो हाल्छ कि। कुलु त तन्नै भेसकेको रै'छ!!!!लु म पनि हिँडे खोज्न!!!...:D
Nirman~*

rose, I got logged out of this thread rather rudely - grrrrr - yesterday. Had to rush off without having said cheerio. My apologies. I am on my two-day break today and tom. So, Fri will be the latest before you can re-bash me with your mystery baton! Hey, your baton is now no longer a mysterious one hai, in case you didn't know. The ruck-sack is all rough and ready, waited to be couriered to ................ . I know, someone is going to land in it with 'namitho' thud!

Will see you on Fri.
Ps: you've got lakes after lakes eh.. all around you. Like the Lake District up in Cumbria, England. Must be such a pretty place to be in. I'm planning on going on a sky trip to Norway this winter - might make a quick detour to ---------- so I can 'pop in'. You'll never know. Someone has been warned!

I thought so, no need to apologise. Wow you got days off? Lucky you..:) Warn me all you want, I ain't scared...:) just make sure the rucksack is nice and clean and I get some space to breathe.

Time for the parachute to land..

mo ta detour sitour haina, tetai destination banauchu:P:P

NepaliPoonte,

Having a second thought! Hmm Not sure if they've got skiing resort there though. Someone's gonna answer that pronto or the rucksack's getting thrown off the Dover cliff! :)

I can swim...:D Name the city please...

or may be fly? :D

::) Sc....in ho??

ho ki hoina? 20, 19, 18...17

Hoina hehe...you are baaaaaaaaaddddddddddddddddd :D

Okay lady, I'm gonna have to now raise my 'white' flag and own up to my defeat with dignity. If you'll allow - or this orienteering route will end up reaching for Scandanavia having traversed the Europe proper. What do you say to that?

Om mane padme hum.

Hehe poor you....i will send you the answer..:)

Shall I murmur too? I think my arrow is pointing in the right direction. :P:P __ lati, ___longi!!eheh:P

NepPoonte, both these arrows won't work - we might as well chuck 'em in the bin for permanent! :(

Okay enjoy the rest of the day. Time for me to shoot off. Cheerio.

Allooooo..:) does this sir's name start from D ?