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MM Links March 2009 [Week 4]
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Post to be made at 8:45 am on SATURDAY by misterEguest
Good Morning, this is Mr E back once again. Sadly, this will be my last blog for you all :-(
Some of you claimed to have found helpful clues within my blogs - Whatever gave you that idea? However, I am under instructions to wean you off those before returning to a more regular game next month.
Nothing much has happened over the last few days, unlike last week when we stood on the great white cliffs of the Sussex coast looking out to sea. Even the weather has changed and instead of basking in spring sunshine, we have had to endure strong winds and showers.
On Monday evening, Fred called round with 'Snoopy' his dog - no, not 'Dino' (lol), and it's nothing like that poor beagle in the cartoons either. He is actually a Jack Russell. The purpose of Fred's visit was to see if I could lend a hand planting an alder tree for his eldely father, Jimmy.
So it was that we turned up at Jimmy's on Tuesday morning. I took one look at the tree and thought "Alder? Hey, it looks more like a poplar to me". Before we started, Fred's mother made us a pot of tea. During the small-talk, she told us that she was extremely pleased with a bargain she had found on evsajo's stall at last weekend's car boot sale. �30 for a gaudy piece of Majolica. I wanted to say "What a load of pap! Worth next to nothing I'm sure", but instead I politely said "I'm sure one of the guys at the Antiques Fayre will give you twice that for it".
Out in the garden, we readily found a stake to anchor the tree but needed a sledge-hammer to drive it in. "There's one in the garage." said Jimmy, but when we located it, we discovered that the hammer head was loose and had to be secured first. Nothing ever seems to go right first time, particularly so that day.
Good Morning, this is Mr E back once again. Sadly, this will be my last blog for you all :-(
Some of you claimed to have found helpful clues within my blogs - Whatever gave you that idea? However, I am under instructions to wean you off those before returning to a more regular game next month.
Nothing much has happened over the last few days, unlike last week when we stood on the great white cliffs of the Sussex coast looking out to sea. Even the weather has changed and instead of basking in spring sunshine, we have had to endure strong winds and showers.
On Monday evening, Fred called round with 'Snoopy' his dog - no, not 'Dino' (lol), and it's nothing like that poor beagle in the cartoons either. He is actually a Jack Russell. The purpose of Fred's visit was to see if I could lend a hand planting an alder tree for his eldely father, Jimmy.
So it was that we turned up at Jimmy's on Tuesday morning. I took one look at the tree and thought "Alder? Hey, it looks more like a poplar to me". Before we started, Fred's mother made us a pot of tea. During the small-talk, she told us that she was extremely pleased with a bargain she had found on evsajo's stall at last weekend's car boot sale. �30 for a gaudy piece of Majolica. I wanted to say "What a load of pap! Worth next to nothing I'm sure", but instead I politely said "I'm sure one of the guys at the Antiques Fayre will give you twice that for it".
Out in the garden, we readily found a stake to anchor the tree but needed a sledge-hammer to drive it in. "There's one in the garage." said Jimmy, but when we located it, we discovered that the hammer head was loose and had to be secured first. Nothing ever seems to go right first time, particularly so that day.
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Tuesday obviously wasn't our lucky day. With the tree firmly planted and the job done, we were about to leave when 'Disaster', the rear tyre was flat! Fortunately the required tools were in the boot and 20 mins later we were on our way home.
Hopefully you have all had a much better week and are well attuned to my wavelength to guess my links.
I'll be back at 9am.
Hopefully you have all had a much better week and are well attuned to my wavelength to guess my links.
I'll be back at 9am.
As with all previous setters, I shall follow the rules relating the word length as introduced by crofter. Each of my chosen link words contains at least four letters and at most eight. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one or more of your attempts! Each of my selected words may go in front of or after my challenge word. The competition will officially close at 7.00pm on Sunday evening when gen2 will declare my selected words then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past. My fourth and final set of words to be linked should appear below at 9.00am.
May I congratulate Mister E Guest, I thought he was an exemplar last week in showing how the preamble should be done. I say this as one who has had the privilege of once being a setter of the Links and know how hard it is to strike the right balance between being totally obscure and too d*mn obvious. He succeeded where I so nearly failed.
Many thanks Mister E Guest.
Many thanks Mister E Guest.
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