Good morning everyone - all ready for the days fun and games ?? We've another four interesting words from Kate which hopefully will continue the excellent start made last week. Will somebody crack the...
Last week marked the beginning of the second reign of Lady Slaney II and several entrants benefitted from a healthy harvest of points, so much so that Slaney may attempt to stem the haemorrhage with a...
Have just read that the music played for Jack Duckworth's last moments tonight is Matt Monro singing 'Softly as I leave you', my favourite song of all time. Worth watching the programme for that...
Good morning everyone, and a very bright sunny morning it is too - a week of lovely Spring weather coming up - yummy !! Very good weekend for KM Linkers too - lots of points scored and some...
This first week in the reign of Lady Slaney II attracted a healthy field of nearly 50 entrants, all trying to outwit “She who has twice outwitted Strix”. With an adopted French theme (and...
Good morning all -- this is Sheila again (aka slaney) for my second reign as the MM Links setter. I’m so surprised to find myself here; foolishly I had thought I was immune as the memories of my...
Good morning everyone - November already !!! what happened to the past year ??? I saw an advert yesterday, saying 52 days to Christmas - that scared the socks off me !!! Oh well - this will take our...
Welcome to a new month and a new game of MM Links. I am delighted to say that slaney has picked up the gauntlet and will be the Links setter for the month of November. There are immediately three...
Evening all, I've read and enjoyed the Agetha Raisin and Hamish McBeth books. Has anyone read any other books by Ms Beaton or under her other name Marion Chesney? If so were they of similar humour to...
I know the usual time for pruning roses is in March, but is it also possible to do it about now? I seem to remember from my father's old gardening books that November is an alternative, but maybe...
Good morning everyone - bright and early with todays links and the round-up for the month and needless to say, not disappointed with the turn-out from our entrants. As predicted, not quite so much...
For his final week, Strix maintained a more or less gentle standard for his last set of link words, namely: Oil SLICK GREASE Paint FIELD Fare STAIR Well Scoring proved quite brisk ~ particularly...
"What will happen next week is anyone’s guess." crofter wrote in last weeks results. Well, my friends, we are into the last week of this month and as some of you are (stop whinging)...
Good morning everyone - here we are at the end of the month, and a month where Kate has had us on the ropes just a bit. Scoring was hard to come by up until last week and then the flood gates opened,...
This will be the final week of our Triple Crown MM Links Champion (Strix) with no fewer than 14 weekly challenges under his belt in relatively short time. Whenever he has been asked to step into the...
Do you think it's time to stop changing the time twice a year just to please the Scottish farmers. After all if they don't like it they should get a job indoors or move South (not Wiltshire though)...
Afternoon all. Not sure whether I should have put this in Technology or even Science, but I'll try here first. I'm planning to try wearing a magnetic braclet to see if it helps arthritis in my wrist...
Oh my goodness - what is that Chinese proverb - be careful what you wish for ??? Well, it arrived, in spades, this morning !!! What I thought was going to be another of Kate's 'tricky' weeks turned...
For this, his penultimate week, Strix held to his promise to an extent by relaxing on the obscurity of some of his link words. Judge for yourself as I now disclose his links for Week 4 as follows:...