[Posted by gen2 on behalf of deecee131] This is 'Don Corleone' back again. 'As you may have noticed from previous input from me, I spend a fair amount of time nowadays involved in cricket umpiring. I...
Good morning everyone - from rather cold south oz, where it's a long weekend and not much to recommend it - a good one to stay in and sit by the fire. Four from the 'more unusual' category today, but...
Good morning everyone - and short and shiny this will be !! apart from the fact that it's too nippy for sitting still. I think we were hoodwinked last weekend, thinking Kate had gone back to tried and...
Good morning everyone - or should it be Good Evening !! So much for having an early advantage of picking up the crossword at midnight and having time to get organised !! However thanks to london_lassy...
[Posted by gen2 on behalf of deecee131] 'Little did I think that 'Don Corleone' (my given name by Crofter), would need to try and shoot you all down again. When I was checking how well (or badly) I...
A BigThankyou to BigMac for providing the challenges this month. Yes, another month has passed - doesn't time fly when you are having fun! I can now reveal that BigMac's chosen links were: DROP GOAL...
This is “BigMac”. First – an apology. My use of a proper name last week caused some anger / confusion. I apologise. In mitigation, the word ‘posh’ was used in my...
Good morning everyone - ready for the last round for this month ?? I'm pleased to hear it !! No wayward links today, but as always, lots of possibles and no easy way to choose between them so what...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 29a The Girl with the ------ Tattoo, one of Stieg Larsson's posthumously-published crime novels with the character Lisbeth Salander [6] 49a The world's most...
I'll be brief this evening as I have just returned home from a fortnight on the Sussex Riviera. Tomorrow sees he culmination of the May rounds in both versions of the game.Who eill be champion? Who...
Good morning everyone - not so bleak here today, promise of a couple of sunny days to come and then back to the wet stuff again - well it's that time of the year, isn't it !! Well, we knew there'd be...
So we come to Week Three and my thoughts turn, naturally, to the fantastic day of sport that awaits us. Subject to the weather (this is being written early on Thursday morning), day three of the...
Good morning everyone - a bit on the dreary side today, so an early start for KM and then off to sit by the fire - love to know where Strix was getting his data from, we haven't had a 12.5deg night...
Good morning everyone - cool and cloudy here today after the obligatory down pour yesterday just in time for Mothers Day picnic lunches - always happens, you can set your clocks by it !! Much better...
BigMac's 2nd challenge has now closed. I can reveal that his chosen links were: COUNTRY WALK ADDICT DRUG HOLIDAY ROMANCE PEACE CORPS But before I reveal who the winners and losers were, I offer a warm...
Last week’s intro was rather hurried and I promised gen2 that I’d try and do a little better this week. I wrote this during bank holiday Monday – May Day – whilst at work. In...
Good morning everyone - cold nights, lovely sunny days, log fires, bedsocks, wood smoke, hot buttered toast with soup ...... I love this time of the year !!! Now to things more practical and what does...
Well, it falls to me, BigMac. So, for week one, you need to know how my mind works. It doesn’t. Or rather, it flits like a butterfly, alighting where it will. So there may be no rhyme –...
