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MM Links August 2011 Week 3
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Well it’s my third week as 'King Jim' and doesn’t time fly? The football season is upon us again which makes me rather sad as it heralds summer’s end. Next month brings the Autumnal Equinox, which brings back happy memories of my schooldays and a wonderful Geography teacher who instilled in me a great interest of the weather and Earth sciences.
I went to a Grammar school in East London. A Catholic establishment, it had associated within its confines a Technical and a Secondary Modern school. Something of an early prototype for today’s Comprehensives I suppose. So I had the somewhat surreal experience of conjugating Latin verbs followed ten minutes later playing football in the playground with boys whose career paths led them to relieving Banks of their raison d’etre. I must say you learnt some harsh lessons very quickly. Like, do not tackle a lad from Form 5F, or it would certainly signal the end of your participation in the game.
I went to a Grammar school in East London. A Catholic establishment, it had associated within its confines a Technical and a Secondary Modern school. Something of an early prototype for today’s Comprehensives I suppose. So I had the somewhat surreal experience of conjugating Latin verbs followed ten minutes later playing football in the playground with boys whose career paths led them to relieving Banks of their raison d’etre. I must say you learnt some harsh lessons very quickly. Like, do not tackle a lad from Form 5F, or it would certainly signal the end of your participation in the game.
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Anyhow, I had three teachers in particular (Maths, Science and Geography) who seemed to encompass all that made a great teacher. The best one of all was our South African born Geography master. He was both a tough disciplinarian but also an extremely sympathetic man with a very dry sense of humour. Moreover he had that certain knack of holding you spellbound throughout the lesson. I used to sit there in awe as he drew diagrams showing the Earth’s position to the Sun at the Equinoxes and Solstices and how that would explain our seasons. He would take us on Field Trips explaining the effects that local Geology had on our landscape. I never looked at the countryside in the same way again. He taught us how and why local natural resources fired the engines of a country’s economy. To top it all he was an avid fellow West Ham supporter. My admiration was complete.
I left school with an intense fascination about the weather that has stayed with me to this day. I suppose I have become a bit of an anorak keeping daily records going back years. But I was wondering whether I would have the same fascination with the weather if I lived elsewhere on the planet. My brother lives in Darwin. The weather there seems to be sunny and 33 deg every day for months on end. Living here in the UK, we experience great variety in the weather, with the proverbial four seasons in one day. The glorious unpredictability of it challenges the most expert of meteorologists. But, sometimes, just sometimes, after a summer like the one we are having, I think maybe I could throw the log book away and settle for just a snatch of what Darwin gets.
I left school with an intense fascination about the weather that has stayed with me to this day. I suppose I have become a bit of an anorak keeping daily records going back years. But I was wondering whether I would have the same fascination with the weather if I lived elsewhere on the planet. My brother lives in Darwin. The weather there seems to be sunny and 33 deg every day for months on end. Living here in the UK, we experience great variety in the weather, with the proverbial four seasons in one day. The glorious unpredictability of it challenges the most expert of meteorologists. But, sometimes, just sometimes, after a summer like the one we are having, I think maybe I could throw the log book away and settle for just a snatch of what Darwin gets.
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Each of the selected link words may go in front of, or behind my challenge word.
The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when gen2 will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past. My set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.
