MM Links Solutions July 2010 [Week 5]

[crofter]

For this fifth and final week in July, King John (aka rockfordill) continued with his generous frame of mind as he returned to rural life in the English countryside. Recalling his annual role as a judge in the local fete, he chose the links:

HANGING Judge
Fruit CAKE
Flower POWER
Garden GNOME

Perhaps he is quite severe as a judge, nutty as a fruit cake, recalled his days in a caftan & flares and marked his fondness (or otherwise) for naff garden ornaments!

NOW READ ON

[crofter]

It was roslyn251254 who opened the game with a triple-hitting set of predictions with HANGING JUDGE, FLOWER POWER and GARDEN GNOME for a massive SIX POINTS! Roslyn had recently returned from holiday and these were her first points during the whole of July. It was a case of “too late to take the crown” but it was just in time to qualify her as HOT SHOT OF THE WEEK.
*** Let trumpets sound and canons roar ***
*** The peasants cheer and shout “Encore” ***

Out of 48 entrants, some 21 were able to “beat the clock” for double pointers from these three link words. Entrant #2 was ulysses with Flower Power for Two Points and similar levels of success were demonstrated by Grenmus, gen2, Dustybun, grannydi, Christiana and centrino. Their reward was also to be Two Points.

Even greater success was to come to Jools, lysander, Strix, owllady, seekeerz and paulineward ~ They each had two prompt hits for FOUR POINTS. The final link to fall went to Entrant #24 (at 09.05) when kawakiri came in munching on a FRUIT CAKE for TWO POINTS. Alas regward (as in paulineward) had two hits, but unfortunately was unable to get to the laptop until 09.07am, so he was to score Two Points (rather than Four). This has happened before!

[crofter]

Amongst the field of 48 entries, six managed to score One Point and another three were able to follow the example of regward and score Two Points. These were Elspeth, jobjockey and joto. Well done!

The top of the final League Table after this fifth week is:

TEN POINTS: Aquagility, Dustybun, lysander, owllady & Strix
EIGHT POINTS: jobjockey & paulineward
SEVEN POINTS: Elspeth & patchett
SIX POINTS: centrino, gen2, Grenmus, Jools, roslyn251254, seekeerz & tearinghair
FIVE POINTS: grannydi, joto, slaney, teacher1 & wickedtongue

Aquagility was unable to build on his impressive early lead and was joined by four others from the chasing bunch, all of whom are ex-champions except one ~ that is owllady! This entrant is fairly new to MM Links and attracted the eye of the scorer ~ not least for her striking avatar. I have long picked her out as a future MM Links Champion and now her time has come!

I only ask you to contact me by email using my new address [email protected] so that we can start the ball rolling. In the meantime, this is crofter signing off.

Until we meet up again: HAPPY LINKING!

:o)

Sorry about the initial posting in "Motoring" ~ I had problems with SatNav!

[jan1956]

So long as it was the sat nav and not the wipers not working crofter )))))))))
well done owl lady look forward to next week and your links
thanks crofter don't think troubled the old abacus too much
xx

[rockfordill]

Roslyn
All I can say is many congratulations and you should go
on vacation more often !!!

As soon as I saw your entry at 9.01 Sat I knew that you had it it big,
pity there is no prize money attached, yoyu'll just have to be satisfied
with the plaudits.

Now I'm looking forward to playing the game again next Saturday
after 5 weeks off !!

Congrats to all the winners

Ex King John

[gen2]

Congratulations Owl-Lady, I look forward to your links next month though I will probably miss the first week.

And what a fantastic spring from the starting blocks demonstrated by Roslyn251254

As for RegWard, I can fully sympathise and offer him my commiserations.

Sorry I had to miss the AGM. My wife's cousin was celebrating her Golden Wedding anniversary at Cameron House Hotel on Loch Lomond this weekend.

See you all sometime in August.

[paulineward]

Well done Roslyn and owllady...and the other joint winners!
Many thanks to Crofter and King John...

Now if Reg spent less time faffing about on a Saturday morning, he would not miss out on the bonus points! He takes so long to give me his links Crofter...I just HAVE to enter mine first! :-))

[roslyn251254]

I can't believe it!!! Yes I must go on holiday more often!! Well done owl lady, looking forward to your links next weekend. Thanks to King J & Crofter.

[owllady]

I am amazed that I have done so well and congrats to all the others on the leader board. I have sent an e-mail crofter But not sure whether I will be any good.

[JoolsTwo]

Well, out with a bang. Well done owllady and don't worry, you will have lots of help from crofter.

Thanks to King John and to crofter. Jools xx

[Strix]

Well done owllady, I am sure you find it easy to get your claws into the intricacies of setting the links with crofter's able assistance.

[tearinghair]

Thanks crofter and Your Majesty, and well done to all scorers. Three blank weeks for me - must try harder!

[rockfordill]

I feel I have to make a small adjustment to crofter's imagination
in case I am misconstrued !

I was a working accountant in the 60's, totally missed out
on the swinging era, never wore flares or caftans and gnomes
would never darken my garden - nutty as a fruitcake maybe!

It was a real pleasure working with crofter and owllady
congratulations on your new status, crofter is a real
gentleman and you will be well cared for. If I could learn
the ropes then anyone can!

And R talk about the same wavelength - you can
clearly read me like a book!!!
J

[twix123]

Thanks Crofter, and King John for an interesting month although I couldn't get on your wavelength.

At least I got out of the freefall club with my one whole point for the month!

[Aquagility]

Many thanks for an interesting month, King John. And thanks to you, as ever, Crofter.
Congratulations owllady, we look forward to your offerings fo the next month.

[paulineward]

You will be just fine owllady. Crofter will look after you!

[Dustybun]

Wow! Not often Dusty gets a toe space on the top rung!! Thanks to the already abdicated King John for a great month and to crofter for all the work he puts in to put this show on the road! Well done to all the point scorers and Hot Shots, Free Fallers and Owls!! Well done owllady ~ looking forward to your links. Crofter will look after you and you will enjoy your month. :0)

[seekeerz]

Finally managed to get my head into some of King John's space and scored some points into the bargain - phew !!!

Many thanks, KJ for a most interesting month and crofter as always, and congratulations to everyone, especially owllady - you'll have a fantastic month !!

[crofter]

Well done everyone ~ especially owllady!

As for contact with owllady, please re-send to <[email protected]>

Your initial attempt did not get through!

[NB I am going to try to use this new address on a more regular basis]

[owllady]

Crofter I have resent the e-mail I hope it got through this time.