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 - 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, 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 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 !!...
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....
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...
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...
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 - 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 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 - 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...
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...
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 -...
More than five generations of Mrs Strix family have bred, trained and competed on horses. From earliest youth they all have had close relationships with their horses. This means they are closely in...
Good morning everyone - Winter has arrived here when we were least expecting it, well not too bad, but a bit of a shock after lovely sunny Autumn ... to think I was out in the paddocks Wednesday while...
Oh dear, I seem, last weekend, to have left you somewhat in the dark as to what my links might be. I will try to be less abstruse this time. As I said a week ago, I am an architect. I was lucky enough...
Good morning everyone - still getting used to clocks going forward and back, so this could be posted at any time. Thanks again to the stalwarts for manning the life boat whilst I was away, and now...
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