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MM Links August 2009 [Week 3]
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Good morning all and welcome to my third week as Pope Adrian the Munificent. Judging from last week's scoring, it now looks as if the Holy Orders are working!
For me, the 'Swinging Sixties' was an important decade. I left school before my sixteenth birthday and joined an international bank in the City, making the daily commute by train. The trainees would start in the Post Room, learning the general routine of the bank and deliver Bankers Payments and Exchange Contracts to other banks in the City, through rain or shine. After some months, having walked nearly every street and back alley in the Square Mile until one knew it like the back of one's hand, we would be transferred into various departments until ready to specialise in a particular area of banking. Naturally computers hadn't been introduced at that time -- only accounting machines. Everything had to be written in large ledgers with fountain pens (seldom seen nowadays) and most documents and all letters would be prepared on manual typewriters. I also had to attend evening classes in order to gain the required banking qualifications.
Spare evenings would be spent at the youth club or in the local pubs, going to dances at weekends, with local bands playing. One such group became The Small Faces when Rod Stewart joined them. I would race around the local towns on my motor bike, until one evening a car driver decided to hit me which resulted in six months with my leg in plaster and nine months off work, though luckily the bank kept me on the payroll.
For me, the 'Swinging Sixties' was an important decade. I left school before my sixteenth birthday and joined an international bank in the City, making the daily commute by train. The trainees would start in the Post Room, learning the general routine of the bank and deliver Bankers Payments and Exchange Contracts to other banks in the City, through rain or shine. After some months, having walked nearly every street and back alley in the Square Mile until one knew it like the back of one's hand, we would be transferred into various departments until ready to specialise in a particular area of banking. Naturally computers hadn't been introduced at that time -- only accounting machines. Everything had to be written in large ledgers with fountain pens (seldom seen nowadays) and most documents and all letters would be prepared on manual typewriters. I also had to attend evening classes in order to gain the required banking qualifications.
Spare evenings would be spent at the youth club or in the local pubs, going to dances at weekends, with local bands playing. One such group became The Small Faces when Rod Stewart joined them. I would race around the local towns on my motor bike, until one evening a car driver decided to hit me which resulted in six months with my leg in plaster and nine months off work, though luckily the bank kept me on the payroll.
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I did promise that at some stage I would reveal the origins of my nom de plume and now would be an appropriate time in the chronology. By the early sixties, my elder brother had become known as �Swicks�, being a play on our family name. I was looking for something similar, but the only other letter that would naturally go before the �wicks� was �T�. Being a lazy lad as far as spelling was concerned, �Twix� was born. The chocolate-covered biscuit and caramel snack bar invented by Mars didn�t appear until 1967, therefore I claim to be the original. One of their early advertising straplines: �Twix satisfies you best� became a very useful chat-up line, and I didn�t hear any young ladies complain!
Nearby was an all-girl teacher training college, which provided an ample supply of suitable girlfriends for the red blooded youths, although most of the girls also had regular boyfriends back in their home towns. At the end of the decade one of the college girls from a small town in Northern Ireland became my wife.
Anyway enough of the recollections.
Once again, I shall follow the rules relating to 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 my selected words will be declared, and points awarded in the usual manner. My third set of words to be linked should appear below at 9.00am.
Nearby was an all-girl teacher training college, which provided an ample supply of suitable girlfriends for the red blooded youths, although most of the girls also had regular boyfriends back in their home towns. At the end of the decade one of the college girls from a small town in Northern Ireland became my wife.
Anyway enough of the recollections.
Once again, I shall follow the rules relating to 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 my selected words will be declared, and points awarded in the usual manner. My third set of words to be linked should appear below at 9.00am.
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