Obituaries and other words

1. Until I read her obituary in the Guardian, I had not heard of Susan Shaw, or of the Type Archive. In these circumstances, I gain as much as I lose by her death. No, I know it's not all about me...



2. The death of Julian Bream is definitely a loss, but again, the Guardian obituary is worth reading: at the age of 11, he was given a junior exhibition award to study the piano at the Royal College of Music, with the cello as his second instrument. "Although he gave a groundbreaking demonstration recital there, he was asked not to bring his guitar in by the front door."



3. We were talking in the comments to sovay's post about the Guardian's quiz about languages, Know your Hrvatski from your Old Norse? For the record, ( warning: showing off and discussion of answers under the cut )
   
   
   
4. boybear pointed out a clue in last Friday's cryptic crossword: "Where Durham divers go, making bloomers perhaps (9)". His point, I think, is that this requires you to know that Durham is on the river Wear. With even more local knowledge, I told him the name of the diver: that'd be underwater archaeologist Gary Bankhead.



5. And one ftom Countdown to complete the set (hooray! it's back!): a 'teatime teeaser' asks you to produce an anagram of CIDERFOLK, with the clue 'with cider and folk music they played in the sunshine'. Oh, they would if they could!