MM Links

[rockfordill]

Who is our new MM links setter and where are they hiding
have tried both weather and crosswords ???
J

[grannydi]

I was wondering the same. Is it Strix who's doing it this week in the absence of crofter?

[seekeerz]

have just sent Strix a txt - he shouldn't be too far away !!

[seekeerz]

He's doing the whole shebang - should be an interesting month !!

[evsajo]

Yes it is Strix.I am not ususally here at this time, come on Strix !!!

[Aquagility]

Strix is the setter, but I think the Ref for Week 2 only.

[Strix]

It won't let me post have asked both Gen2 and seekeerz to post for me but here is the first part

What a hoot, I’m back again, and crofter has decreed that my new moniker is STRIX THE STARGAZER.

I was puzzled for a moment as to why. Then I remembered Oscar’s words “We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”.

So maybe it is appropriate.

But being back and afflicting you all again was not something I had anticipated or hoped for! When crofter announced he would be away for the first two weeks of October and needed help, out of nowhere and like a rat up a drainpipe, came that Pauline volunteering my services as bean counter. Cheers, darling, I love you too! Then a couple of others agreed. But when (et tu Brutus) Aquagility put the boot it agreeing with them and additionally damning me with faint praise that was it! With friends like these…………..?

So on Saturday morning, after I had posted my MM link suggestions, I sent an email to crofter “offering” (did I have any option?) my services. When he didn’t accept straight away but replied writing “I SHALL RETURN” (sic) I should have smelt the vermin hanging in the air.

So tuning in on Sunday evening to see the scores I could see what crofter had already known – that I had two of the answers and was in the lead. My immediate reaction was “Holy cow, oh please no, NOT the double-whammy” Hoist on my own aroma. I could almost hear Pauline stirring the Stockpot whilst chortling with schadenfreude.

Oh well, stop whingeing and let’s cut to the chase.

On another web forum there has been much talk in recent days about “empty nest syndrome” where mums are lamenting their little boys and girls departing for University. (I was going to write “departing for Higher Education” but having

[Strix]

On another web forum there has been much talk in recent days about “empty nest syndrome” where mums are lamenting their little boys and girls departing for University. (I was going to write “departing for Higher Education” but having spent some years, as you will discover, at University I knew better than to maintain that falsehood!).

I then thought back on my own departure for University but I don’t think that it had any impact at all on my parents as I had been at boarding school since the age of 7! Autres temps…….

[roslyn251254]

Good morning J - I am pleased to report a win! This Thurs I was pleased to see my name in print as the winner of the Spectator! Only £30 but it's the honour I keep telling myself! Only been doing it since Feb. Joined the Times Xword club this week too so this weekend there will be plenty to do!!!

[gen2]

Gongratulations on your win Roslyn251254.

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