Good morning everyone - after a bit of a blast of heat yesterday, it’s back to mild and much cooler out there today …..luckily no strong winds to put the fear of bushfires into us …hopefully it will...
The main quiz is fairly easy this week (in my humble opinion, anyway), allowing me to get a decent enough score, I think, of FIVE out of seven: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-59673952 A couple of...
Here are todays shaded clues for you - 67a. Form of recreation such as Ludo, Pictionary, rummy or Scrabble, or a flock of swans. (4) 100a. Colour of mistletoe leaves, baize, science/nature wedges in...
Good morning everyone - our pleasant mild weather continues, but it keeps bringing the wind as well, not the best for keeping up with watering !! But who listens when you complain …..nobody !! Ok the...
Here are todays shaded clues for - 37a Brass wheel for bookbinding, or a bread bagel, barm, bap, brioche or burger bun (4) 2d. Angle between a dogs forehead and muzzle, harpsichord mechanism, traffic...
It’s probably not one of the hardest weeks for the main quiz but I could still only achieve a middling FOUR out of seven: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-59582585 It’s a really easy week in the kids’...
Good morning everyone - well our little spell of hot weather has gone, leaving most of us short on sleep and more than a little weary, it always comes as a shock, after the chilly stuff. The links...
You should be able to beat me easily in the main quiz this week! Just a paltry TWO out of seven for me: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-59494304 There are some easy questions in the junior quiz this...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 14a. One of the two chambers of a bicameral legislature, dwelling such as a bothy, cottage, grange, manor, rectory or vicarage, or a theatre. (5) 36a Thin strip...
Good morning everyone - lovely sunn day today, still a bit too much wind, but a definite improvement from the past few ...my roses are not impressed. The links don't look too bad .....well we'll see...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 11a. Receptacle for matches, a hat or a selection of chocolates, shrub used for topiary and knot gardens, an old square pew, or a short word for a railway...
A lousy start for me in the adult quiz this week, getting the first three wrong. However everything went very smoothly after that, giving me a ‘middling’ score of FOUR out of seven:...
Good morning everyone - our spring weather continues for the time being but rain forecast shortly, I'd better get on top of the weeds before they take off again !! As for the links ....unusual might...
Good morning everyone - not a bad day, considering its a weekend and for a change the wind isn't stripping the roses and drying out the lawn ....just means I'll be out there watering this afternoon !!...
I was hoping for a clean sweep this week when I got the first five answers right in the adult quiz but, predictably I suppose, I then failed at the final two hurdles. So that’s FIVE out of seven for...
Here are today's. shaded clue s for you - 9a. Made from the cellulose pulp of linen, esparto, mulberry or wood, a material upon which to write, draw or print, decorate walls or wrap gifts, or a...
Good morning everyone - Sunny and quite breezy, and very pleasant after a weird week .....lots of rain, but now some sunny days ....I can cope with that. Some fairly straightforward links for us...
Not too bad for me this week, I feel: A middling FOUR out of seven on the adult quiz: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-59247789 An equally middling THREE out of five on the junior one:...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 17a. Slab for/with an inscription, one of the two halves of a backgammon board, or a company of people seated for supper or a game (5) 31a. Structure created by...
Good morning everyone - nice and mild out there after overnight rain, plus the threat of thunderstorms, which luckily, have not eventuated !! New round of links for us to puzzle over - BREAD FAMILY...