MM Links November [Week 5]

[Strix]

It is Week 5 of Sir Strix the Mongrel as I totter to the finish post, exhausted by you all guessing my links Despite that I am still determined to finish. Again last week far too many of you were on the ball. Poor crofter positively reeled under the onslaught and needed oven gloves to handle his sacred abacus. So let us now set forth for Week 5

[Strix]

As this is my last week in setting the Links I want, first, to pay tribute to crofter.

More goes into maintaining this site than you all may realise. Previous setters of the Links will know exactly what I mean.

The Links setter may seem to move serenely over the water like the proverbial swan but, believe me, crofter is doing the manic paddling below the waterline! So whosoever is lucky enough to be this month�s champion, please do not hesitate or demur but take up the baton and run - crofter will be at your side and be your cicerone.

So my heartfelt thanks go to crofter and my apologies for parting him from a fiver last weekend!

[Strix]

I think it reasonable to say that a fair proportion of the people living on these islands are the result of hybridization. For example, the paternal side of my family comes from the depths of Cornwall and my maternal side from the very north of Scotland. Lady Strix (now returned from the hospitality of seekeerz, Mr seekeerz and the two Westies in the Land of Oz) too is a half-breed with her father coming from the Lowlands of Scotland and her mother�s family originating from Kent where they first arrived with that illegitimate Norman bloke!

[Strix]

This mix means that our children are still half and half � and remain sort of Scotlish! Now that our daughter is at the third oldest University in Britain it sort of reinforces that half of her breeding. It also means a lot of travel for us to see her � will it be by plane or train? And when there what is the local fare and what to choose?

[Strix]

You will, probably, by now have worked out that I am talking of the land where it is not difficult, to misquote P.G. Wodehouse, to tell the difference between a native with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

Yes, we are talking North of the Border, of God�s own country.

And the real reason for all this Scottishness ?

Tomorrow is St Andrew�s Day.

�Scots wha� hae�

[Strix]

Needless to say, for the every day running of MM, I will follow the same rule as introduced by crofter on word length. 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 crofter 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 fifth and final set of four words to have their links predicted will appear below at 9.00am. Good luck to you all.

[seekeerz]

and the four words will have NOTHING to do with any of the above, will it !!??

[Strix]

I, Sir Strix the Mongrel, challenge you to predict the fourth set of words based on �Stern Caledonia�: Reeling

FLYING
HIGHLAND
MALT
SALMON

Take your partners and let�s dance!

[seekeerz]

Highland Reel
Single Malt
Smoked Salmon
Kite Flying

[jan1956]

Flying Doctor
Highland Games
Malt Whiskey
Salmon Ladder

jan

[gen2]

Thank you Strix.
I'll go with:

flying SCOTSMAN
Highland FLING
malt WHISKY
WILD salmon

or are those too obvious

[centrino]

flying SCOT
highland FLING
BREWERS malt
salmon FILLET

[evsajo]

Flying FISH
Highland FLING
Malt WHISKEY
Salmom MOUSSE

[ulysses100]

It seems that I am on your wavelength only every other week Sir Strix, and this is one of them. Let's see !

FLYING Scotsman
HIGHLAND fling
MALT vinegar
Pacific salmon

Good luck everybody !

[seekeerz]

can I make that 'fling' instead of 'reel' please

[fordward]

Ive gone for the obvious caus he wouldent do that
Flying Scotsman
Highland Fling
Malt Whisky
Salmon River

[Christiana]

Flying pigs
Highland reel
Islay Malt (my wild card)
Salmon pink

[Dinkypuzzled]

FLYING Dutchman
HIGHLAND stream
MALT whisky
SALMON leap

[beejay1124]

flying squad
highland wedding
malt shovel
salmon steak

[cliffyg]

flying dutchman
highland terrier
single malt
smoked salmon

[slaney]

Flying Buttress
Highland Fling
Single Malt
Sockeye Salmon