Good morning everyone - lovely warm weather, cool nights, yummy Autumn !! We have a thought-provoking little group of words to consider this morning - Kate's definitely not slacking up on us and...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 28a The sixth novel in the Rutshire Chronicles series by Jilly Cooper [5] 29a Scottish physician who discovered and identified carbon dioxide, latent heat and...
Good morning everyone - from a very windswept south oz. We have a Public Holiday today and fashion demands I should be at the races, wearing a short summery get-up with very high heels and very little...
Good morning everyone - gosh, our poor old world is taking a hammering right now, my thoughts go out to anyone who has family in Japan, friends of ours have just returned and are thanking their lucky...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 16a English equestrian and 2004 Olympic silver medallist for team eventing who has also won Badminton Horse Trials on two occasions [4] 27a Computer keyboard...
Good morning all - here with today's matches and results on a rather sticky Monday am, wind is blowing and there's talk of 35d - Summer's last hurrah, I hope well, we thought it might be a tricky...
Good morning everyone - heavens, it is March already !! Nights are getting cooler .... wonderful, soon time for log fires yippee !!! This week shows a recurrent theme - Kate is pulling out all the...
Amazon declined to forward a copy of Bandits [Bruce Willis, Cate Blanchett, Billy Bob Thornton] when I ordered one through their internet site ... they allowed the initial order but opted out when...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 53a Unit length equal to 0.3048cm [4] 6d Edible cartilaginous marine fish in the ray family [5] 17d English actor, director and screenwriter who starred in the...
Good morning all - from a fairly cool south oz [I'm happy with that !!] where a number of straaange people are complaining about a cooler than average Summer, they think they've been done out of their...
Good morning everyone - yep, I'm here, struggling along to the starting block, hoping to make it on time- I'd forgotten how fiddly laptops are to type quickly on, but at least it's going which is more...
Normally at this time I would enter today's shaded clues for you, but this morning ain't normal !! My old computer has spat the dummy, I'm getting to grips with a new lappy and the mail has been lost...
Good morning all, from a fairly cool and overcast south oz where not only is this month drawing to a close but so also is Summer if the trees are anything to go by. We had a family lunch in one of the...
Good morning everyone - from a water-logged south oz !! That cyclone just keeps coming back around and dumping on us again. We've had enough to see us for the first couple of months. Kate keeps coming...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 13a 'Wit without discretion is a ----- in the hand of a fool' Spanish Proverb [5] 21a English playwright who penned the controversial work 'Saved' set in 1960's...
Good morning all - and Happy Valentines Day !! Right, having said that, now what comes next - I'm not expecting roses so perhaps I'd better just get down to work ... and after last week's matches, I...
Good morning everyone - we managed to catch the tailend of the cyclone here over the past few days - very windy, very wet and very very humid !!! horrid, in fact and that was only the last of it, glad...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 22a A set of switches or sockets; also a group of labourers working together [4] 36a ----- sinister; heraldic charge once used to indicate an illegitimate birth...