Good morning everyone - lovely sunny day here and looking out the back windows, there's a solid mass of wisteria, beautiful perfume and gorgeous colour, but the bees have arrived and the dogs are not...
Good morning all, this is 'Joan the Wad', Queen of the Pixies, back to challenge you once more. Imagine this little scene that recently unfolded . . . My friend and I were summoned to her lounge on...
Hi All, this is 'Joan the Wad', Queen of the Pixies, here to set your challenges for September. I went to see my 88 year old client today and we were talking about dog-walking. She asked if we could...
Good morning everyone - after several gorgeous days, we're back to 'can't make up its mind' for the next few, the rain is back but not the wind, so that's a bonus !! Hopefully a good start to the new...
Good morning everyone - Well we've done a quantum leap from Winter straight to early Summer here, with temps hitting 27 next week, a glorious day today and also for tomorrow, first time in ages a...
Hi folks. Welcome to the last week of this month's MM links. The footy season up and running - and misbehaving cricketers have made the news too - tut tut. Other news items were animal related: the...
Good morning everyone - Spring is on the way, we have a milder weekend, and thank goodness the wind has dropped, so all the blossom has blown off !! Sorry about the mix up - i really hadn't realised...
Hi all. Welcome to week 4 (of 5) from 'Baron Brian'. {EDIT by Gen2:- Yes, this is going to be a 5-week month so you'll have the pleasure of one more of Baron Brian's challenges next weekend.} August...
Good morning everyone - back to the depths of winter today, with howling gales and buckets of the wet stuff as well, so I'm glad we've nothing planned for outdoors. The links today are - TENNIS...
Hi folks and welcome to week 3 from 'Baron Brian'. It has been a lot cooler in the mornings and evenings over here now and the darkness is with us a lot earlier. As they say in Norn Iron - “the...
Good morning everyone - lovely sunny day here, just in time for the weekend, that makes a pleasant change .... We've almost been snowed in the past two or three so its good to get out in the garden....
Hi and welcome to week 2 from 'Baron Brian'. Well the football and rugby will soon be in full flow and that will be a welcome addition to my current TV viewing. No matter how many channels there are...
Lincs and Notts air ambulance quz Really struggling with this one any help appreciated 14 a person, could be table or game 17black lacquer from the orient 37 hand when addressing children.JPR rugby (...
Good morning all - rather bleak and dreary down our way today, another good day to stay put by the fire, but the spring flowers are coming through so were nearly at the end of Winter Four links to...
Hi once again folks from Baron Brian and thank you gen2 for asking me to be this month's setter. Well as usual the weather has been a major talking point this last wee while with all the downpours and...
Good morning and welcome to week four of the MM links competition. You have had my past history as a dentist but now I am a full-time botanist. As I said last weekend I was going to spend a few days...
Good morning everyone - after some lovely sunny days, it's about to dump on us again, just in time for the weekend and the Almond blossom Festival..... Mind you, it happens every year, it looks good...
Good morning everyone - It's f.... f...... Perishing down here today, wind is blowing straight off the ice pack and the polar bears are all wearing life jackets. Luckily we don't have to put our noses...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 44a Method of scoring in football [4] 53a Country which hosted the Winter Olympics in 1952 and 1994 [6] 7d Colour of one of the 45a [3] 41d 29 medals of this...
Since Ulysses100 is away botanising, I, gen2, am posting the following on his behalf. --------------------------- Many thanks to gen2 for holding the fort for the past couple of weeks. You go away for...