And they're all under starters orders, the red light is flashing, the starters on his platform .....oh come on seekeerz, stop watching the racing and keep your mind on the task at hand.
All my 'sporting secrets' are coming out of the woodwork this weekend, what with V8 cars and horse racing, my old home town's suddenly got very noisy.
Welcome one and all to the first week of the March competition - the aim as usual to match your entries with those Kate Mepham sets in her Saturday Crossword - and we are still looking for that elusive 4 x 4, mind you I thought we might have had one last weekend - four people had three scoring hits, it could very easily been four.
As usual, we are looking for an early starter [ in the absence of Aquagility, who has opted for a lie-in] to post the four words on this site as soon as possible, enter their own selections and then it will be on for young and old.
The competition will close Monday morning with the posting of the second batch of words and then yours truly will go to work and hopefully come up with some results.
I expect to see the return of a few faces who have had special leave for a short while, particularly the O-ices - fancy coming home from the sun to 4 foot of snow, doesn't bear thinking about [ bbbrrrrrrrr] and Argee2 is floating aound as well.
I hope those who have been on the sick list have now recovered, especially Dustybun - hit by a Marmite sandwich - well if you believe that, you'll believe anything-------and I do !!!
Good Luck everyone, watch out for head-high tackles, they will be dealt with severely but just about anything else is fair game - see you later, Steff
think you might be right with the Balsa Wood, pauline, but then you never know, Kate might have come up with a real tricky one for us.
Christiana, I was wondering about the 'amber gander' - I had to look up amber gambler - it's not a phrase I was familiar with, but the gander really had me stumped
seekeerz...ambler gambler was a catch phrase used during a road safety campaign years ago on tv here. I am sure it has been used elsewhere also, but the message was don't be an amber gambler and wait for the traffic lights to change. Well that's what I remember anyway!!