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MM Links November 2011 Week 1
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Hello again from “Regal Roslyn”.
It hardly seems almost 2 years ago that I was the “link-setter”. I bored you with my life history then so I’ll have a change this time round!
Our Australian adventure
My OH John had always wanted to visit Oz, but I was nervous of the long flight. But in 2009 when 29yr old Simone and fiancé Mark came to work for a year at Nestles with John, the idea slowly took shape. Simone was over here (from Brisbane Nestles) for a year to learn all about English techniques in the manufacture of Nescafe coffee. We all became great friends and when they returned to Oz after their year we promised we would visit them sometime in the future. Xmas 2010 saw the arrival of a wedding invitation so our great adventure was about to begin!
After much planning & booking hotels, trips & flights we flew out of Heathrow in early March. After a 26hr flight (It went surprisingly quickly & Singapore Airline cabin crew were fantastic), with a 2hr stop in Singapore, we finally arrived in Sydney where Simone & Mark were waiting to greet us. We had our first glimpse of the Harbour Bridge & the Opera House as we drove northwards to their home which was to be our base for the next 4 days. We did the usual sightseeing in Sydney for 2 days(didn’t do the “harbour bridge climb” as we thought £135 was a bit pricey!). I particularly enjoyed the Chinese Tea Gardens near to Darling Harbour where there was plenty of wildlife to be seen. The Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney are home to thousands of Grey-headed Flying-Foxes – the noise from them was deafening; and the Wollemi pine , discovered in 1994 and thought to be long extinct. We then had a day trip to the Blue Mountains named because of the blue hue given from the oil-bearing eucalyptus trees growing there. We saw the “Three Sisters” a sandstone rock formation, one of the best known attractions in the region. On the return journey we spotted our first wild kangaroo playing on the railway embankment.
It hardly seems almost 2 years ago that I was the “link-setter”. I bored you with my life history then so I’ll have a change this time round!
Our Australian adventure
My OH John had always wanted to visit Oz, but I was nervous of the long flight. But in 2009 when 29yr old Simone and fiancé Mark came to work for a year at Nestles with John, the idea slowly took shape. Simone was over here (from Brisbane Nestles) for a year to learn all about English techniques in the manufacture of Nescafe coffee. We all became great friends and when they returned to Oz after their year we promised we would visit them sometime in the future. Xmas 2010 saw the arrival of a wedding invitation so our great adventure was about to begin!
After much planning & booking hotels, trips & flights we flew out of Heathrow in early March. After a 26hr flight (It went surprisingly quickly & Singapore Airline cabin crew were fantastic), with a 2hr stop in Singapore, we finally arrived in Sydney where Simone & Mark were waiting to greet us. We had our first glimpse of the Harbour Bridge & the Opera House as we drove northwards to their home which was to be our base for the next 4 days. We did the usual sightseeing in Sydney for 2 days(didn’t do the “harbour bridge climb” as we thought £135 was a bit pricey!). I particularly enjoyed the Chinese Tea Gardens near to Darling Harbour where there was plenty of wildlife to be seen. The Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney are home to thousands of Grey-headed Flying-Foxes – the noise from them was deafening; and the Wollemi pine , discovered in 1994 and thought to be long extinct. We then had a day trip to the Blue Mountains named because of the blue hue given from the oil-bearing eucalyptus trees growing there. We saw the “Three Sisters” a sandstone rock formation, one of the best known attractions in the region. On the return journey we spotted our first wild kangaroo playing on the railway embankment.
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After Sydney we left Simone & Mark behind and set off up the east coast for the next part of our 3 week adventure before we would return to Sydney for the wedding. Our first stop was at Hervey Bay from where we would set sail on our 3 day trip to Fraser Island – the largest sand island in the world & a World Heritage Site. The island has rainforests, eucalyptus woodland, wallum & peat swamps, sand dunes & coastal heaths and fantastic lakes. The weather wasn’t brilliant (we were there just after the Brisbane & Queensland floods) but we enjoyed the drive along 75 mile beach, the main highway. All transport is 4WD because all the roads/tracks are sand. The sights included The SS Maheno Shipwreck (drifted onto the beach in 1935 after a cyclone), Eli Creek, Pinnacle Rocks, Indian Head and wild dingoes! Surprisingly we had the same guide that our daughter Abi had had 4 yrs previously! We walked across Hammerstone Sandblow (a huge sand dune) to Lake Wabby where we had a refreshing swim. The dune moves about 3m every year so in time Lake Wabby will disappear. We also swam in Lake McKenzie where the sand - 98% quartz – is an excellent skin exfoliator. Needless to say we all gave it a try – didn’t seem to make us look any younger though! We had a walk in the rain forest where a leech attached itself to my ankle and had to be burned off with a cig lighter! Luckily my ankle soon recovered before the next part of our trip.
According to normal practice, for the everyday running of MM, I shall follow this rule on word length, in that each of my pre-selected link words contains at least four letters and at most eight letters. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts!
Each of the selected link words may go in front of, or behind my challenge word.
The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when gen2 will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past. My set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.
Each of the selected link words may go in front of, or behind my challenge word.
The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when gen2 will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past. My set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.
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