Good morning everyone - lovely burst of summer here with several days in the mid-twenties, breaking us in gently for a change, before the really hot stuff arrives [ not before December I hope !! ] A...
I won't mention any names but what happened to the thread about the man on the park bench and all other posts by the same person .... Has he been blasted off the face of the earth and why ?
Good morning everyone - after early rain, it's turned into a lovely Sunday warm day, ideal for getting the washing dry and for clearing away the mess our beautiful lemon scented gum made last Monday...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 5d Small white patch of hair below a horse's forelock and poll [4] 6d ---- aerobics; form of choreographed exercise to music etc [4] 54d Term for an exploding 5...
Good morning everyone - I'm a bit hesitant about posting the results today, I'm fairly sure they're correct but that raises a query in the Herculis puzzle though I can't think what else it could be....
Good morning everyone - lovely sunny day here and looking out the back windows, there's a solid mass of wisteria, beautiful perfume and gorgeous colour, but the bees have arrived and the dogs are not...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 21a ----- Falls. located in Venezuela with an uninterrupted descent of 979 metres, the world's highest waterfall [5] 28a Type of fungus eaten by a mycophagist...
Good morning everyone - a slightly lesser version of 'mad Monday' here but I have to be out the door by 11.00am so moving right along ..... Three very getable matches and one somewhat more obscure -...
Good morning everyone - after several gorgeous days, we're back to 'can't make up its mind' for the next few, the rain is back but not the wind, so that's a bonus !! Hopefully a good start to the new...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 34a Novelist who wrote the Strangers and Brothers series of 11 novels [4] 57a In printing, s symbol in the form of a pointing hand [5] 22d The scientist...
Good morning everyone - from sunny down town Oz land where, yes the sun is shining and a great start to Spring on the way. Nice little collection of points scored from these matches - Copper Beech...
Good morning everyone - Well we've done a quantum leap from Winter straight to early Summer here, with temps hitting 27 next week, a glorious day today and also for tomorrow, first time in ages a...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 12a Chemical element; atomic number 29; symbol Cu etc [6] 42a ----- suit, the clubs and diamonds in bridge [5] 24d Google -----; virtual globe and map with...
Good morning everyone - cool and quiet here this morning, Sunday turned into a lovely day, maybe we'll get lucky with this one too, but the wet stuff comes back later in the week ..... it's been a...
Good morning everyone - Spring is on the way, we have a milder weekend, and thank goodness the wind has dropped, so all the blossom has blown off !! Sorry about the mix up - i really hadn't realised...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 16a Cathedral town founded by the Romans as Lindum Colonia; also a variety of shortbread biscuit [7] 17a ----- bouillon, variety of stock based on white wine,...
Have any of the cat slaves among you tried walking your cat on a lead ? I haven't till now but the idea of training my new baby to accept a harness while traveling in the car or possibly walk happily...
Good morning everyone - still on the bleak side after a pretty rough weekend, perhaps not quite so windy, but still a good excuse to do nothing outside !! Lovely to see something of a resurgence among...
Good morning everyone - back to the depths of winter today, with howling gales and buckets of the wet stuff as well, so I'm glad we've nothing planned for outdoors. The links today are - TENNIS...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 61a Game that developed from jeu de paume [6] 2d Royal house known as Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until 1917 [7] 6d Poker hand in which all cards are of the same suit...