[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...
[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...
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...
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...
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 –...
Good morning everyone - a bit nippy this morning, autumn is well entrenched, log fires and warm soup are the go - at least we don't have snow to look for to in the winter months !! is this good or bad...
Well all too soon it is my last week as setter of the MM Links. Once again I have enjoyed setting them and watching avidly on a Sat morning to see how quickly they are guessed. I wonder if Bigmac will...
Good morning all - a very early start with a busy day and lovely sunshine ... not to be missed. Anyway, if I sat here any longer I'd just change my mind over and over and still not pick any matches...
Hello again. Here is Week 3's Challenge from Regal Roslyn I shall be brief this week ( “Hooray”, I hear you all shout!!) as daughter is quite ill and I am required to go round to her house...
Good morning everyone - our Indian Summer has disintegrated into rain, very welcome after the warm weather, the feed is staring to jump out of the ground but why does it always happen at weekends ??...
Hello again. Here is week 2's challenge from “Regal Roslyn”. A Weather Report: If Les Dennis (Family Fortunes) were to ask his television audience of one hundred the question "What is...
Good morning everyone - another early start and another glorious day here, the sun is shining, warm with a gentle breeze, too good to be inside so I'm away for a while Four nice little links to get...
This was a great climax to the March round of challenges set by 'Princess Diana' aka GrannyDi. Once again, she teased you with subtle hints (and some not quite so subtle) along with some distractors...
When I offered to do the links this month, I was away in Gran Canaria and didn’t have a diary with me; I hadn’t realized until well into the second week that I would have to produce 5...
Good morning everyone - it's Autumn racing again today so an early posting and I can get back to the gee-gees !! An interesting little group without the huge range of choice we've had on previous...
Shush, be quiet, don’t tell anyone but I think that Spring is around the corner. The clocks go forward this weekend and the garden is coming to life again. My garden is at its best in the Spring...