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Mm Links March 2014 Week 1
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It is a privilege to be back as King John II, King John was never my favourite King but maybe as John II I can make amends for my predecessor’s crimes re Marion, Robin, Nottingham etc ! I will be relying heavily on Gen2 to help me with all the technicalities and so much gratitude to him for all the work he does every week for us.
First I wanted to send out a hello to the Ontices. They know where my name Rockfordill comes from – just south of them! Every time I drove from Illinois to the East coast I would invariably go through Detroit into Ontario province and out again at Niagara or the Thousand Islands bridge. This had the great advantage of quieter roads, a higher speed limit, by-passing the great Cleveland conurbation and most importantly of all I could get Cadbury’s chocolate (I never did get used to Hersheys) and McVitie’s chocolate biscuits! So good luck this month Mr & Mrs O.
A quick bio summary from my two previous appearances as setter. I was born in London (before the war – just) my mother was English and my father a Kiwi. He was an artist, a naturalist and great country lover. So I grew up playing rugby of course, bird watching, hiking around England’s green and pleasant land, stamp collecting (well we all did in those days) and archery and became a great lover of western art Remington, Wyeth, Russell etc. I had the privilege of going to a London Grammar school (Marylebone Grammar) where I learned to love languages, especially the classics. But for all that I became an accountant! After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (by the skin of my teeth) I emigrated to South Africa and from thence to Rockford, Illinois where I spent the next 25 years living and working in the MidWest. More details next week.
First I wanted to send out a hello to the Ontices. They know where my name Rockfordill comes from – just south of them! Every time I drove from Illinois to the East coast I would invariably go through Detroit into Ontario province and out again at Niagara or the Thousand Islands bridge. This had the great advantage of quieter roads, a higher speed limit, by-passing the great Cleveland conurbation and most importantly of all I could get Cadbury’s chocolate (I never did get used to Hersheys) and McVitie’s chocolate biscuits! So good luck this month Mr & Mrs O.
A quick bio summary from my two previous appearances as setter. I was born in London (before the war – just) my mother was English and my father a Kiwi. He was an artist, a naturalist and great country lover. So I grew up playing rugby of course, bird watching, hiking around England’s green and pleasant land, stamp collecting (well we all did in those days) and archery and became a great lover of western art Remington, Wyeth, Russell etc. I had the privilege of going to a London Grammar school (Marylebone Grammar) where I learned to love languages, especially the classics. But for all that I became an accountant! After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (by the skin of my teeth) I emigrated to South Africa and from thence to Rockford, Illinois where I spent the next 25 years living and working in the MidWest. More details next week.
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I remind you that 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 to make a new longer word or to make a well-known phrase or saying. The combination will never be a person's name.
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 to make a new longer word or to make a well-known phrase or saying. The combination will never be a person's name.
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.
