MM Links October 2009 [Week 4]

[Christiana]

Hello again from Queen Christiana, the Cheerful One. To continue the ‘saga’; in due course, along came husband, three sons and an obstinate English bull terrier called Basher. That was in the days when, with the coming of children, women often gave up work and, though cash was short, I was no exception. This continued for six happy years. As Her Cheerfulness, I choose to draw a veil over the 18 months that followed. Suffice it to say that illness struck and, less than 8 years after marriage, I found myself a widow with three small children.

What to do? Eventually I realised teaching would enable me to earn enough to support my family and to be around in the school holidays. So exactly a year after the death of my husband, Tom, I found myself attending Coloma College in Kent. To my surprise, like many mature students, I discovered I had an aptitude for it. For four years I studied, wrote essays, prepared for tests, attended classes, talked, argued, and lived on a student grant, which was something of a struggle. At the end of year three I had my teaching certificate, but decided to stay on a further year to complete an English degree.

[Christiana]

Having trained to teach 5- to 9-year-olds, I found I couldn’t bear not to teach my specialist subject, and, to my amazement, secured a job teaching in a 14-18 school on the Isle of Man. So one day in early July, off the boys and I went to a beautiful Island which was to be my home for the next fourteen years. All I knew about Mona’s Isle (as the locals affectionately call it) was that it was “warmed by the Gulf Stream”, a geographical fact for which there is little physical evidence. Only 32 miles long by 14 miles wide, it has amazing variety – secluded bays, tranquil glens, rolling hills and even a mountain in the middle. There are horse trams, electric trams and a steam railway. It’s gorgeous, but a tropical paradise it aint. Two of my sons still live there.

Now, turning to the MM Links, I shall, as usual, 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 my selected words will be declared, and points awarded in the usual manner. My fourth set of words to be linked should appear below at 9.00am.

[Aquagility]

Man associations? Something like peel, calf, beach, fell? Or maybe not.

[Christiana]

I, Christiana the Cheerful One, challenge you to predict my fourth set of words based on

The World of Teacher Training.

CLASS
TALK
WRITE
TEST

“Good Luck” and “No fighting in the playground!”

[evsajo]

My computer has been playing up but I am here!!!

[roslyn251254]

FIRST class
BABY talk
write DOWN
test MATCH

[evsajo]

UPPER Class
TALK talk
Write DOWN
TEST Drive

[Meg]

Morning.
club class
small talk
ghost write
breath test

[JoolsTwo]

Jools

FIRST - Class
BABY - Talk
Write - ANGLE
Test - DRIVE

[x-ray]

Good morning all and thank you Christiana for this weekend links.
CLASS ROOM
IDLE TALK
WRITE LETTER
DRIVING TEST

[beejay1124]

class room
talk show
hand write
test tube

[lysander]

Bible class
Talk back
Acid test
Write soon

[Grenmus]

WORKING Class
Talk RADIO
Write DOWN
DRIVING Teat

[Aquagility]

Night class
Careless talk
Write nonsense
Test tube

[jan1956]

Social Class
Talk Turkey
Write Back
Test Drive

thanks
jan

[JoolsTwo]

Jim

SECOND - Class
Talk - BACK
OVER - Write
Test - MATCH

[grannydi]

class ACTION
PILLOW talk
ACID test
GHOST write

[Dustybun]

Oops! overslept!!

Class Divide
Small Talk
Write Soon
Test Drive

[cliffyg]

working class
baby talk
write down
test match

[Strix]

Good day to the Cheerful One

Here are my efforts:

class WARFARE
CROSS talk
HAND write
APTITUDE test

[patchett]

Morning all

SECOND class
SMALL talk
write DOWN
test DRIVE