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 - 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...
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 - 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 -...
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 - 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...
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 - 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...
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...
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This is 'Queen Kay' (aka evsajo) here for the final March challenge, Good Morning all, As this is my last week of setting the links I decided to write something about my home town (well city actually)...
Good morning everyone - for this, the final round for March. Yes, I know there's another weekend to come, but remember I said I'd be away next weekend and the one after, so April will be 'late' as...
This is 'Queen Kay' (aka evsajo) here again, Good Morning all, I am writing this as I sit freezing in my house, surrounded by furniture. My front door and conservatory door are wide open as the carpet...
This is 'Queen Kay' (aka evsajo) here again, Morning all, Just over a year ago my daughter and her friend took over a shop in Lichfield and launched [I] The Sewing Shop [i], which, as the name...
Good morning everyone - well we've landed smack into Autumn here with rain and cool nights ..... Oh bliss !! But what's the betting we have a cold wet Easter and we'll be whinging again. Could be some...
Good morning everyone - Lovely day here, if you happen to like the tropics !! Hot, humid, and yucky, not my favourite at all, but I can stay put near the fan and not doing much, the change won't come...
This is 'Queen Kay' (aka evsajo) here, Morning all, As you have probably noticed from my avatar one of the passions in my life is visiting car boot sales. (I sometimes sell at them too) I have been...
Good morning everyone - busy busy day, so I'd better get this done before I forget, but ...... This is the start of a new month which will have to be a 'short' one, likewise the first week of April,...
Morning all, I have spent the last few days in the seaside town of Brixham, Devon, staying with my daughter and her family. It has been SO cold that I haven’t really ventured out apart from watching...