Good morning everyone - icky here today, sultry and overcast with talk of rain later in the week, now this we need, but we can do without the humidity ...I can understand why the visitor to Brisbane...
Ready or not, the results are coming. This week's MM Links game has now ended and I can reveal that 'Lady Jill's' selected links were: FLIGHT RECORDER WING COLLAR CLOUD BURST SOFT LANDING All were...
This is 'Lady Jill' (aka tearinghair) posting this introduction by proxy (gen2) because I am currently asleep in California. I’m on my (more or less) two-yearly visit to the family in USA. It’s...
Good morning everyone - somewhat on the cool side this morning but should be a lovely day later.... My favourite time of the year !! Now what do we have for the start of a new month - GREEN NUMBER...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 41a In the board game Monopoly, the colour of the miniature house pieces [5] 46a ------ Ten; 2002 novel by the creator of the Adrian Mole series [p6] 52a...
March is now over and for most of us it came in like a lamb and also went out like a lamb. Where then were all the usual equinoctial gales? The shrubbery has been languishing under a week-long haar so...
Mic and I have been married over 34 years. When either of us used the bathroom we never commented on what we did whilst in there. To us it was go in close the door and come out when you have finished...
Good morning everyone - not one of the better days here today, we have the makings of a king size thunderstorm rolling around out there...just wish it would get on with it !! Another quiet week points...
This is 'Good King John II' back for his final week. So we are now fully retired and living down on the River Arun in a small village called Bury. Very near to the seaside with all its attractions....
Good morning everyone - back to sunny and warm here, looking at a nice weekend for a change, means I ought to be outside doing things, pity the crossword comes on a Saturday !! Four 'thoughtful' links...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 8a The Canterville -----; tale by Oscar Wilde etc [5] 19a ----- Is Beautiful; A Study of Economics As If People Mattered - 1973 book by E F Schumacher [5] 6d...
When Mics carers came tonight the offending one didn't. Her oppo said she had rang in sick. She asked me If I had reported her. I told her no I hadn't. I wonder if she went sick because of what...
One of Mics carers is upsetting Mic by saying I am going to change your nappy. I have asked her on several occasions not to say nappy. She says I'm only joking. When she left yesterday Mic said I'm...
I've had another experience with 404 coming up ...very recently I tried to check out the Loch of the Lowes webcam which was working ok last year, but now after a computer refit, seems I can't...
Good morning everyone - bit of a hint of winter out there today, well only a little hint, overcast, drizzly and cool, a taste of things to come way down the track, but enough to put paid to any...
This is 'Good King John II' back for Week four. Enough of the Midwest I hear you say – and quite right too. In the early 80s we retired back to this green and pleasant land and settled in Surrey...