So we come to Week Three and my thoughts turn, naturally, to the fantastic day of sport that awaits us. Subject to the weather (this is being written early on Thursday morning), day three of the...
Good morning everyone - a bit on the dreary side today, so an early start for KM and then off to sit by the fire - love to know where Strix was getting his data from, we haven't had a 12.5deg night...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 32a Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister following the resignation of Margaret Thatcher [5] 43a Stem of an asparagus or broccoli [5] 6d Another...
My wife is an dentist who has been working in a surgery for more than 12 months full-time, but has no written contract of employment. I believe my wife is known as a dentist “performer”...
Last week’s intro was rather hurried and I promised gen2 that I’d try and do a little better this week. I wrote this during bank holiday Monday – May Day – whilst at work. In...
Good morning everyone - cold nights, lovely sunny days, log fires, bedsocks, wood smoke, hot buttered toast with soup ...... I love this time of the year !!! Now to things more practical and what does...
Is it also legal for political campaigners to place stickers
on children eg. 'vote Labour' without parents permission?
This is what happened outside my daughter's primary school!...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 29a Taxonomic category ranking above family; also the number of columns in a square matrix [5] 44a The -----; magazine that was launched in 1992 by former...
Good morning all - well no hicccups this morning, everything went accordingly to plan, just most of us weren't on Kate's wavelength properly for this first round. As usual, there were more possibles...
Firstly a BigCheer for BigMac. He stepped into the breach at the last moment and greated the agreed post in record time. Now the game has closed, I can reveal that BigMac's chosen links were: WORK...
Good morning everyone - a bit nippy this morning, autumn is well entrenched, log fires and warm soup are the go - at least we don't have snow to look for to in the winter months !! is this good or bad...
Well, it falls to me, BigMac. So, for week one, you need to know how my mind works. It doesn’t. Or rather, it flits like a butterfly, alighting where it will. So there may be no rhyme –...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 18a Richard "Bingo" ------ ; character in the P G Wodehouse Jeeves and Drones series of books [6] 4d ------ of arc; a unit of angular measurement...
We were supposed to be going away this weekend for 3 nights to a Biker rally at Weston Super Mare. We booked our hotel on 24th April and having received confirmation of the booking we bought our event...
I have just booked a holiday today to Menorca. I have a valid EHIC and bought their £22 Travel insurance. I then had to pay £303 extra as I have pre- existing medical conditions. I came...
I know the plan is to keep interest rates near zero ad infinitum, but what would the economic conditions to make it happen, and how likely is it to ever happen before I'm not here to enjoy them?
This week's game brings to and the challenges for April Regal Roslyn (aka roslyn251254) tried to get you all hooked on numbers - not that that was an answer to any or all of the links - that would...