Mm Links June 2013 Week 1

gen2 | 08:45 Sat 01st Jun 2013 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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This is Manx Queenie, welcoming you all to the (sometime) summer month of June which has, I have discovered, five weeks in which you have to suffer words of wisdom from this quarter.

I am currently based in the Algarve (due to fly home shortly) without access to my usual computer or notes, so this week’s spiel will be based on what is around me at the moment – sunshine, brown (or red) skinned holiday makers from all parts of Europe, much laughter and jollity, blue skies, and more sunshine…

Having said that, for the Portuguese themselves life is not so jolly. As the recession bites, so the government cuts more and more services and pay-outs, leaving the old and vulnerable not knowing how much in the way of benefits they are going to get from one week to another. It all looks well to the visitor in the tourist “hot spots”, but go a few miles inland and there is stark poverty where people scratch a living from the hard, dry earth and a few scraggy animals, starvation looking them in the face every day. Lose your spectacles – or your teeth – and unless you have quite a bit of spare cash, there will be none to replace them. It makes me appreciate our NHS system more, despite its being overworked, over-regulated and understaffed.

But there is plenty of humour as well. I and a group of friends were sitting in a pavement café one afternoon, and a hearse drew up, complete with covered coffin in the glass-sided back. As we watched, the driver and his mate got out and went into the café, sitting down and drinking cups of coffee. After all, their passenger wasn’t going to complain at the delay!

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According to normal practice, for the everyday running of MM, I shall follow this rule on word length, in that each of my pre-selected link words contains at least four letters and at most eight letters. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts!

Each of the selected link words may go in front of, or behind my challenge word to make a new longer word or to make a well-known phrase or saying. The combination will never be a person's name.

The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm. Shortly thereafter (or as soon as he has had time to rattle his abacus), 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.

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I, Manx Queenie, challenge you to predict my set of four links to go with these four challenge words.

TEETH
LIFE
WATER
COFFEE

Good luck everyone!