MM Links November 2010 [Week 4]

slaney | 09:45 Sat 27th Nov 2010 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Good morning, everyone. Time, as usual, is flying by and my last week as MM Links setter has arrived all too soon (although there may be some background cheers of approval here!). Before I move on, I would like to thank crofter for his proof-reading and making sense of my various ramblings. As others have rightly said, it takes a lot of time and effort on his part to keep this particular show on the road.

Speaking personally, I find it difficult to predict in any one week just how points will be scored. Last week, I thought many of you would get “King Penguin” after my reference to Salisbury Plain in South Georgia, as it is home many tens of thousands of those photogenic birds (a well-known fact?). Will there any such hints below? Maybe?

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Moving rapidly on from this first (and all too soon) cold taste of Winter to next Spring, when hopefully I shall make my annual pilgrimage to see the first gentians in the uplands of Clare in the West of Ireland. This landscape didn’t have a good recommendation from the Cromwellian general, Ludlow, who said it “yielded neither water enough to drown a man, nor tree to hang him, nor soil enough to bury him”. Anyone who has visited the Burren will appreciate just how accurate this description of desolation really is.

In years gone by, I used to whizz through this spectacular lunar landscape fairly quickly without really taking time to wander off the beaten track and discover the many unusual flowers set into this 100 square miles of natural rock garden. Whenever the heavens regularly unload their Atlantic moisture, the Aillwee caves always provide shelter from the deluge. Nowadays, I like to go on walks along the green roads and capture the flowers and landscape on camera.

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The rules are as before, in that 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 or more 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 final set of words to be linked will appear below at 9.00am.