Good morning everyone - a beautiful sunny day here after a very cold night !! I love Winter when it's like this but the shortest day last weekend tells me summer is on the way ... again. Last round...
This is me, Manx Queenie, with the MM links for my fifth and final week, and as stated last week, the main topic will be my anticipated holiday in Cornwall at the end of July. I used to live in...
Good morning everyone - typical Winter's day, grey and damp, but luckily without the perishing winds, we've had some lovely steady falls of rain over the past couple of days so most people have a grin...
This time last year I had been back from the other side of the world for about six weeks, leaving the tropical rainfall of northern Australia and the blistering heat of Singapore for the grey skies...
Good morning everyone - cold, overcast, promise of more rain, yes it's Winter, but the bulbs are starting to come through and the prunus will soon be in bloom, I love it !! Something to get our teeth...
This is the third week for Manx Queenie's comments on life and, as a Manx woman, I have to start with the TT Races which ended last Saturday. The weather for the most part was excellent, making for...
Good morning everyone - chilly night but should be a lovely day for our holiday weekend which is a pleasant change, our long weekends are usually ghastly, weatherwise Early start today with four...
This is Manx Queenie, now back home in the UK and settled in once more. So, it's back to the old routine, and it hasn't taken long, as messages on the answer phone and letters through the mail all...
Good morning everyone from a pretty soggy South Oz - thank you all for the rain wishes, they've arrived in abundance and with some sunny days forecast for mid-week the weeds will be taking over !!...
This is Manx Queenie, welcoming you all to the (sometime) summer month of June which has, I have discovered, five weeks in which you have to suffer words of wisdom from this quarter. I am currently...
Good morning everyone - typical Autumn day here, overcast but not really cold, so doing things outdoors is not impossible. Good to come into the fire later on, though' Thinking caps on for some of...
OK, 5 mins later than usual, this is gen2 posting the game on behalf of BigMac. This is BigMac returning with the fourth and final instalment of the May MM Links game, again concentrating on sports....
This is BigMac returning with week three of the May MM Links. I start with a rant: John Terry did not play this week, just as he did not play a year ago. If he respected himself, let alone his...
Good morning everyone - chilly night, bedsox, sunny day ..... Autumn's here for the time being, but we need more rain Interesting links this morning, what will you make of these - THUMB ROYAL SCIENCE...
Good morning everyone - from crazy down under !! It's May ... well we know that, but I'm wearing Tshirts and cool things, and there's a bushfire raging in the Adelaide Hills .... go figure !! And...
This is 'Big Mac' returning with week two of the May MM Links malarkey. We approach summer (seem to have by-passed spring) and colleagues talked longingly last week about getting the barbecues out at...
Good morning everyone - still getting my head around the time difference now the clocks have done their little dance - I forget I have to post in the middle of the afternoon. Four nice links for us...
This is BigMac here, with week one of the May MM Links mayhem. Older readers will remember my last series – where I mentioned my love of sport. So following the announcement on Tuesday of the...
Good morning everyone - very mild and windy here, but more rain on its way .... Well it's that time of the year !! Four links with plenty of options today, so thinking caps on for the final round -...
Spring, at last, seems to have sprung. Our snowdrops having been in flower for what seems like forever have packed it in. Daffodils, at long last, are out. There is, in the Strix garden, an invasion...