Good morning everyone - very much on the sticky side here today, the humidity is back ...nuff said !! Well at least its not 40+ which is what usually happens when the schools go back..!! And as for...
Good morning everyone - another warm weekend here but shouldn't be too savage, at least the humidity is down and there's not too much wind either so we'll all enjoy it (even if we're sitting inside...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 13d Description of a car, race bike tyre etc with little or no pressure/PSI [4] 22d Astronomical event with the phases umbra, penumbra and antumbra [7][ 27d...
Good morning everyone - not looking too bright here today, literally ....overcast very warm, rain predicted and the humidity going thru the roof ....not my kind of day at all !! Not my kind of links,...
Good morning everyone - just back from ordering some new glasses, boy do they try to hammer you in the 'new frames' dept.....nearly as much as the prescription lens if you want something attractive !!...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 12a Pome with varieties such as Beauty of Bath, Blenheim Orange, Cox's orange pippin and Cornish gilliflower [5] 37a Colour of the flag used as an emblem of...
Good morning everyone - from a much more pleasant South Ozland where the temp has dropped lots of degrees and taken most of the humidity with it ...am I glad !! Now I can get a few more chores done in...
Good morning all - Well after a few awful days, including humidity at 90% which is worse than dry heat, believe me, it's back to cool days nice breeze after quite a good rain fall. As for those links...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 4a Name of the dinghy sailed by the Walker children in a book by Arthur Ransome or a migratory bird related to house martins but not swifts [7] 3d Number of...
Can someone please explain the current rules regarding deuce/advantage - I'm familiar with the new rules applying to mens doubles but having watched some singles matches over the weekend I'm quite...
Good morning everyone - thankfully quite a bit cooler here today after a thoroughly nasty weekend, at least no major fire outbreaks here in South Oz...and hopefully some rain before the end of the...
Good morning everyone - Tisn't here, we're into our second day of 40+ and it's not nice at all ....bodies lying around on the floor but as we move from one room to another and turn on the cooler, the...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 27a Team sport played on horseback depicted in a novel by Jilly Cooper etc [4] 37a Herb with a flavour similar to anise and fennel used in gravalax etc [4] 38a...
Good morning everyone - from a cool and very pleasant South Oz, where the heat has abated for the time being and I'm able to get a few chores done without subsiding onto the floor in a puddle ...if...
Good morning everyone - very pleased to report the heat has (temporarily) gone elsewhere ...I'm sure it will be back with a vengeance before too long, but for now it's mild and luckily not too humid...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 35a Derived from the annual ritual of swan-upping, the collective noun for a flock of swans kept for pleasure [4] 7d Reptile such as an anaconda [5] 28d The Mid...
Good morning everyone - where we've gone from very hot to wet and very sticky, and still pretty warm, though nothing like yesterday. We stayed quietly 'put' yesterday, nibbling and quaffing till we...
Good morning everyone - and a very Merry Christmas to ALL....just don't start telling me you're having a white one...I don't want to know !!!! It's 37d today and 40 tomorrow !! Luckily we're having a...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 10a A novella by Charles Dickens divided into five staves [9,5] 58d The ------ -- ----, A Love Story, the fourth in order of the five Christmas books by Charles...