Good morning everyone - very dreary here today, no wind luckily and not much rain either, but it's a long weekend and nothing to get excited about at all - a good one to stay home with a fire, a book...
I love tech but I'm not very good at it. Due to a recent neighbour incident I want to install a camera on my garage wall to view my driveway that I can view on my phone/laptop. As the garage is not...
My prediction is that we'll see lots of 'middling' scores in the adult quiz this week, with no zeros but very few maximums. I managed a somewhat substandard THREE out of seven:...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 13a. Colour of the daytime sky as a result of the process named after physicist Lord Rayleigh etc. (4) 58d. - in Splendour, depiction of the solar system's...
Good morning everyone - a bit of a nippy start this morning which hopefully means a sunny day later on ....the promised rain never really showed up, I think it skipped over the border to Vic yet again...
I managed a decent enough FIVE out of seven on the adult quiz this week https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57341232 . . . but barely scraped by with just TWO out of five on the junior one...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 35a. Fastener whose diameter is measured according to the ligne, or a small flat disc of chocolate. (6) 37a. Manoeuvre performed in a canoe to right it's...
Food morning everyone - and after a very ordinary week - wind, rain, grey skies - we're back to glorious sunshine no wind, but very frosty on the toes...this i can handle !! Straight forward little...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 37a. Material used to make bassoons, barrels or biased balls for bowling (4) 38a. A flower depicted with castles, daisies, leaves etc on a narrow boat in a...
A good week for me, for a change: I scored SIX out of seven on the adult quiz (after, annoyingly, changing a right answer to a wrong one at the last moment, preventing me from scoring maximum points)...
We have heard a lot in recent years of the move away from harmful greenhouse gases. Vehicles on the roads are going greener but we do not hear much about any alternatives to the fuel guzzling planes...
Good morning everyone and it's a gorgeous day here in South Oz, the sun is shining, not too much breeze, and I'm heading for the garden ASAP keeping my fingers crosed for the predicted rain next week....
Can it really be Friday again already? Where does all the time go to, I ask myself? I scored a decent FIVE out of seven on the adult quiz this week https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57183679 . . . and...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 11a. Sometimes stored in a 'hen on nest' tureen, a food within a shell often scrambled, poached or boiled for breakfast. (3) 36a. Launch of a rocket to the...
Good morning everyone - pretty damp and gloomy here, typical Autumn Saturday really - just when you want to get outside and do a bit, the weather turns nasty and that's the end of that !! Links look a...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 15a. Small black raisins used in recipes such as spotted dick, garibaldi biscuits, tea cakes, Eccles cake and Chelsea buns. (8) 16a. Any one of the characters...
Apologies for the lateness this week. I've been battling to upload a fellow ABer's website to the internet, with the hosting company making everything far more difficult than it ought to be but I've...
Goo morning everyone - it's a lovely morning ....grey cool and wet !!! After doing our rain dances repeatedly, it's finally worked ....steadily falling, no wind....perfect !!! Right, now for the links...
Here are today's shaded clues for you 10a. Last month of spring, etc, or a name for hawthorn and it's blossom (3) 43a. School building with bedrooms or dorms and facilities for boarders. (5) 38d....
Good morning everyone - funny day here, overcast, windy, quite warm, on paper it's the end of our fire season, but I wouldn't go starting burning anything out there ....it could get very nasty !!...