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MM Links November 2009 [Week 1]

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crofter | 08:45 Sat 07th Nov 2009 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Welcome to the first week of pitting your wits against “King Krophta the Quizzical” (aka crofter). Whilst previous setters have revealed part of their private lives, I have been hiding behind a cloak of anonymity. It is time I came out of the closet!

My father was born and raised in Belfast and excelled as a bagpiper from the tender age of 8 years ~ eventually being “recruited” at the age of 12 as the “Boy Piper” with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. When WWII broke out, he joined the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders as a piper, and at one point was stationed in a small seaside village on the Northumbrian Coast. There, he “courted” a young Geordie lass and shortly after their marriage, I was born in North Shields as an Irish Geordie!
  
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At the end of the war, the family moved to Belfast, where jobs proved scarce. At a very early age, I was made aware of the sectarian divide. However, on the positive side, I will always remember my voracious appetite for jigsaw puzzles. At the age of only 4 years’ old, I would take on adult-standard puzzles of several hundred pieces. I honestly believe that this was the start of my development as a convergent thinker. On the very day that I should have started infant school, I was diagnosed with German measles and was whisked off to hospital for six weeks in an isolation ward. Throughout this entire period, my parents were not allowed to visit me. This extended depravation of maternal nurture did lasting damage throughout my life ~ and temporary damage to my education.

In an attempt to gain employment, the family (now with an additional sister, Sheila) moved back to that same NE coastal village where we shared a two-up two-down cottage with an uncle, aunt and two cousins. My father finally was employed as a datal hand in one of the local coal mines with responsibility for transporting pit props here and there by pit pony and cart. I was then five and a half and it would be another seven years before I could enjoy the luxury of electricity, running water, a flush toilet and a bedroom of my own. Whenever anyone starts up their personal account of “We were so poor …”, they have no idea! As an 11+ failure, I was later classified as a “late developer” and, when I eventually passed the 13+, the old Grammar School system proved my saviour ~ and I didn’t look back!
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As far as my MM Links are concerned, needless to say, I shall follow my very own rule 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 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 I shall disclose my selected words, then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past.

My first set of four words to have their links predicted will appear below at 9.00am.

My chosen theme has the simple cryptic clue: M
Hmmm...school days maybe?
You learn something new about somebody every day! :-)
yes Pauline ~ got to be education hasn't it?
Still won't get the link words though!! :-))
Symbols maybe or numbers perhaps
maybe.....mining
Or money?
James Bond ?
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I, King Krophta the Quizzical, challenge you to predict my first set of words based on:

The Fifth of Nove(M)ber

FIRE
WORK
ROMAN
CANDLE

Good Luck everyone!
fire CRACKER
work HORSE
roman SOLDIER
candle LIGHT
Good morning King Krophta, (I was expecting Joker Jim?)

My guesses today are:


FOREST Fire
Work HORSE
Roman NOSE
Candle STICK
Great clue !
FIRE hose
house WORK
ROMAN emperor
CANDLEmaker
Doh!!

Fire Engine
Work Ethic
Roman Catholic
Votive Candle
Good morning crofter and linkers everywhere.
FIRE ALARM
HARD WORK
ROMAN SOLDIER
CANDLE STICK
Fire station
Home work
Roman numeral
Candle snuffer
spit fire
home work
roman catholic
candle holder
fire FIGHTER
work HOUSE
roman ROAD
candle STICK
fireSIDE
work ETHIC
roman NOSE
candle STICK

Crofter - are you just over the Tyne from me?
Morning, Crofter.

Fire guard
Homework
Roman nose
Candle snuffer

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