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Mm Links February 2014 Week 2
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Good morning, MM Linkers – this is The Cats’ Mother, bringing you a second week of challenges.
Last weekend saw in the Chinese New Year, ushering in the Year of the Horse. An ABer in the Far East posted about the constant noise of the celebratory fireworks. My mind was more drawn to the horses…. I like horses, I admire the beauty of the magnificent beasts, but I was reminded of a childhood incident. We were walking in a field with horses grazing, and I found myself pressed up against a chain link fence by one of them. I was scared to go forward because of the teeth, and scared to go backwards because of the hooves. My parents came to rescue me, but I still remember the incident!
Other equine memories are of donkey rides on the beach when I was little – I still remember the feel of the donkey’s hairy body, and the leathery saddle, as we bounced along on the sands.
I wonder if many of the Chinese New Year celebrants sent up Chinese lanterns. On the coast here, we are discouraged from sending them up, as they can be confused with marine distress flares as they sail across the Channel; and the lifeboat has launched on several occasions only to find that there is nothing to rescue.
Going back to my childhood, I have recently made contact after several years with someone from my fifth form year at school, and we have discovered the panoramic photograph taken of the whole school. That has brought back rafts of memories of the people in the photos, the teachers, jogging to the hockey field each week in our hideous divided shorts, and the communal dining room. I remember too the earnest discussions before school about the latest pop groups, including the emergence of the Beatles and the Stones, and comments about the latest edition of Monty Python’s Flying Circus on the television. I remember the hours spent in the local record shop, where you could ask for the single record to be played to you in a little booth before you purchased, until we were chased out for entertaining ourselves without intending to buy anything! It was a very different world from today, where it seems to be essential to carry your music supply with you, and to be constantly plugged in to some entertainment or another.
Last weekend saw in the Chinese New Year, ushering in the Year of the Horse. An ABer in the Far East posted about the constant noise of the celebratory fireworks. My mind was more drawn to the horses…. I like horses, I admire the beauty of the magnificent beasts, but I was reminded of a childhood incident. We were walking in a field with horses grazing, and I found myself pressed up against a chain link fence by one of them. I was scared to go forward because of the teeth, and scared to go backwards because of the hooves. My parents came to rescue me, but I still remember the incident!
Other equine memories are of donkey rides on the beach when I was little – I still remember the feel of the donkey’s hairy body, and the leathery saddle, as we bounced along on the sands.
I wonder if many of the Chinese New Year celebrants sent up Chinese lanterns. On the coast here, we are discouraged from sending them up, as they can be confused with marine distress flares as they sail across the Channel; and the lifeboat has launched on several occasions only to find that there is nothing to rescue.
Going back to my childhood, I have recently made contact after several years with someone from my fifth form year at school, and we have discovered the panoramic photograph taken of the whole school. That has brought back rafts of memories of the people in the photos, the teachers, jogging to the hockey field each week in our hideous divided shorts, and the communal dining room. I remember too the earnest discussions before school about the latest pop groups, including the emergence of the Beatles and the Stones, and comments about the latest edition of Monty Python’s Flying Circus on the television. I remember the hours spent in the local record shop, where you could ask for the single record to be played to you in a little booth before you purchased, until we were chased out for entertaining ourselves without intending to buy anything! It was a very different world from today, where it seems to be essential to carry your music supply with you, and to be constantly plugged in to some entertainment or another.
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The time has come for me to set you my second challenge. 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.
