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MM Links November [Week 1]
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Bonjour and welcome to the first week of pitting your wits against Sir Strix the Stargazer. The redoubtable and ever�reliable crofter will be my white stick as I stumble through the setting of the MM Links. And if I, or my internet connection, should fall I know I can rely on crofter to pick up the baton, to keep running and launch the link words at 9.00 am. At this point I should point out that if my posts go swimmingly and arrive on time then all credit is due to crofter but if it goes base over apex then it is totally my fault.
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Some of you will know of me from the Friday evening shenanigans in the Shrubbery, but let me assure those of you who do, whilst I am a bit of a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde character, it is my Mr Hyde persona who visits the Shrubbery but it will be the more sober and sensible Dr Jekyll who will be presenting the MM link words for your consideration!
At each stage of this month I will reveal a little more, not necessarily in chronological order, of the history and interests of Sir Strix which may or may not help you to work out the link words.
At each stage of this month I will reveal a little more, not necessarily in chronological order, of the history and interests of Sir Strix which may or may not help you to work out the link words.
Now, about this Saturday. Lady Strix and I have two children. The younger, a boy, is at the same school I attended when I was his age (12). Both he and I, particularly at this time of year, with the shorter days and longer nights, take a keen interest in the night sky studying and marvelling at the panoply of stars and realising just how insignificant we all are in the vastness of the Universe. The scientist Carl Sagan pointed out that there are more stars in the heavens than there are grains of sand in all the beaches and deserts of this planet. So this weekend, and as I did at his age, we will spend a lot of time staring in wonderment at the ever-changing sky. As we stand there watching the skies all those familiar and nostalgic autumnal smells will drift across, leaves burning, the smoke of wood fires, wine being mulled, sausages being cremated on a barbecue accompanied by the distant noise of a karaoke in a local pub. Magic!
Some of you (Pauline, probably!) will by now have begun to hit on the theme for this morning�s links. It is, of course, that time of the year when pyrotechnic displays illuminate the night sky. To be honest, as to Astronomy, I personally wouldn�t know Orion�s Belt from his Underpants so there is no point in me banging on about the stars. What my son and I want to see this weekend at his school fireworks display are loads of noisy whizz-bang flashy things crashing around the sky.
By way of an aside did you know it was not originally an effigy of Guy Fawkes they used to burn on the top of the bonfire but one of the Pope (the Bishop of Rome as they would then have called him) and to make it all the more acoustically realistic, horrid as it is, they used to put a live cat inside the effigy. Lord knows what visiting Europeans and Orientals make of our �celebrations�. Well enough about Fawkes� plot to blow up the King and all the peers and Guido�s own subsequent gruesome demise.
By way of an aside did you know it was not originally an effigy of Guy Fawkes they used to burn on the top of the bonfire but one of the Pope (the Bishop of Rome as they would then have called him) and to make it all the more acoustically realistic, horrid as it is, they used to put a live cat inside the effigy. Lord knows what visiting Europeans and Orientals make of our �celebrations�. Well enough about Fawkes� plot to blow up the King and all the peers and Guido�s own subsequent gruesome demise.
Needless to say, for the every day running of MM, I will follow the same rule as introduced by crofter on word length. Each of my chosen link words contains at least four letters and at most eight. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts!
Each of my selected words may go in front of or after my challenge word. The competition will officially close at 7.00pm on Sunday evening when crofter will declare my selected words, then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past .
My first set of four words to have their links predicted will appear below at 9.00am.
Bonne chance, mes amis.
Each of my selected words may go in front of or after my challenge word. The competition will officially close at 7.00pm on Sunday evening when crofter will declare my selected words, then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past .
My first set of four words to have their links predicted will appear below at 9.00am.
Bonne chance, mes amis.
