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Mm Links March 2014 Week 4

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rockfordill | 08:45 Sat 22nd Mar 2014 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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This is 'Good King John II' back for Week four.

Enough of the Midwest I hear you say – and quite right too. In the early 80s we retired back to this green and pleasant land and settled in Surrey near Esher where my wife went to boarding school at Claremont. I got involved with the school management for awhile which was an interesting challenge, and then we moved further south to a village in the hills near Dorking. Not the chalk North Downs in fact but the Greensand Ridge running more or less from Haslemere through to Kent. In fact we lived just a few hundred yards from the Greensand Way national footpath and over time we did walk every mile of it from Haslemere to near Ashford. It followed the Greensand ridge and had spectacular views over the Weald. It was the Greensand equivalent to the Pilgrims Way and the North Downs Way on the chalk. Saw some lovely bee orchids and man orchids on the North Downs last year.

I remember the Downs from wartime when they gradually converted from sheep grazing to being heavily ploughed up for crop production although that was mainly the South Downs as I recall. I do remember lines of Italian POWS marching off into the hills to do farm work and they seemed to be particularly happy, singing as they walked. Most likely glad to be out of the war!

Our village on the Greensand Way was Holmbury St Mary quite near Friday Street and definitely an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It was our meso-potamia as it were between the rivers Wey and Mole both of which had carved out gaps through the North Downs as they flowed North into the Thames. Dorking and Guildford both being called gap towns at one time. I have become quite involved with the River Wey in working to reopen the old Wey Arun canal (London’s lost route to the sea), but more about that next week. Holmbury is somewhere up at about 500 feet and the night sky was often quite brilliantly clear with a bright Milky Way.

We have just now moved South into Sussex for life on the Arun but more about that in my final attempts to give you challenging words next week !

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I remind you that 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, 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.

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I, “Good King John II”, challenge you to predict my set of four links to go with these four challenge words.

SHEEP
TIDE
PLOUGH
STAR

Good Luck everyone!
Black sheep
Spring tide
Plough share
Star gazer
Good morning everyone. I'll try :

black sheep
tidemill
ploughshare
star turn
Sheep TRACK
Tide MARK
Plough SHARE
Star GAZER
BLACK sheep
Tide OVER
PloughSHARE
POLE star
Good morning

Sheep Shank
Even Tide
Plough Share
Pole Star
SHEEP fold
Spring TIDE
PLOUGH anchor
Pole STAR
Black SHEEP
Spring TIDE
PLOUGHshare
Pole STAR
Sheep Station
High Tide
Plough Share
North Star
Good morning all

BLACK Sheep
HIGH Tide
Plough SHARE
Star LIGHT
Black sheep
Tide mark
Plough share
Star sign
black sheep
high tide
snow plough
shooting star
Sheep skin
Tide table(s)
Plough Monday
Star Chamber
Sheep Shearing
Full Tide
Plough Shares
Guiding Star
Sheep WALK
Tide MARK
Plough LAND
Star GAZER
sheep SHANK
HIGH tide
SNOW plough
NORTH star
Sheep farm
ebb tide
Snow plough
Pole star
Sheep SKIN
Tide MARK
Plough SHARE
LUCKY Star
Black Sheep
tide over
snow plough
star turn

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