MM Links September 2009 [Week 4]

tearinghair | 07:45 Sat 26th Sep 2009 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Good morning and welcome for the last time to my reign as Lady Jill. I was sorry to see that there were fewer entries than usual last week, and hope it was because of the good weather and other positive reasons and not because you’ve given up on me! Many of you have obviously put me down as an old romantic, choosing (correctly) “Dawn Chorus” last week. Well, it is great to hear (isn’t it?) particularly in May with the promise of the summer to come (what summer?). I’m not sure about the ‘romantic’, though; maybe ‘nostalgic’ would be nearer the mark, with a hint of “Grumpy Old Woman” thrown in!

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As I said in Week 1, I now rely a great deal on the Internet for all sorts of things – answers to quizzes and crosswords, general information and emails to the family. My son, daughter-in-law and two grandsons live in California, and the 8-hour time difference makes telephoning very difficult (except at weekends). I wouldn’t want to go back to a time without the computer, and yet we seem to have lost a bygone Age of Innocence.

I have many happy memories of playing hopscotch in the street, filling in I-Spy books and playing marbles on the garden path (that is, before I lost my marbles completely!). Most of all - ‘only-child syndrome’, I suspect - I enjoyed escaping to a world of fantasy which I found in books. I was an avid reader – anything from Every Girl’s Pocket Book through to the Chalet School Stories, from Never Land to Treasure Island, from Ian Fleming, to Dorothy Sayers.

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Not that I would ever stop reading, of course. The combination of the local library and the chance to buy books cheaply on Amazon has made literature ever more available. However, when I see young people automatically looking to the computer to fill their leisure time, I am concerned that many will be unable to acquire the knowledge or develop critical analysis required for higher-order reasoning (I’m not sure I have developed this myself yet…). They may never be able to solve cryptic crossword clues – and even take part in Links games!

Enough of that; now down to the business of higher-order reasoning!
As always, I shall follow the rules relating to 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 final set of words to be linked should appear below at 9.00am.