This afternoon, having occasion to check having seen a Wellingtonia, probably somewhere in the vicinity of the Esso Rontec roundabout, south of Leatherhead, on the A24, I managed to get gmaps into a muddle. Panning around, one could get the sky, one could get a blue bonnet, but one could not leap over the bonnet and get on, possibly the blue bonnet of the Google camera car.
Tried getting out of that and trying another spot between that roundabout and where the A24 turns north, with the same result. Plenty of sky, plenty of blue bonnet, but no road and certainly no Wellingtonia. With the rules at present being that there has to be a snap of some sort, from my own telephone or otherwise.
Try again tomorrow.
PS 1: while I remember, I must check up whether the Maigret 'clou' has anything to do with the clue of Christie. Larousse fairly helpful, but not conclusive, with one meaning, apart from nail, being the key point of something, the nub of the matter. From the Latin.
PS 2: some time later: Webster talks of balls of wool or twine and of the bottom corners of a square sail on a square rigger of old. OED amplifies. From the Old English. With clew being a variant spelling. With one link to the clues of Christie being the ball of twine which Theseus carried into the labyrinth, the clue which got him out again. So I think the answer is no. But still not quite sure. Maybe Simenon confused the two words when he went to live in the US after the second world war?
PS 3: 07:45, Wednesday morning: pink and blue stripes over the horizon out front, near full moon out back. Heavy frost on back lawn, southern hedge, extension and garage roofs. Stripes which don't usually last more than a few minutes.
References
Reference 1: Le Voleur du Maigret - Simenon - 1967. Page 250, Tome XXIV, Éditions Rencontre.
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