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Newsletter 26 -

Oh crikey. The owner of the club's going to hit the roof....isn't he?

So there I was, standing on the 1st tee @ Trevose Golf Club (Cornwall) checking out one of the most beautiful coastal sights Britain has to offer before I tee it up and give it some umpty, admiring the ball soaring through the azure sky while it ends up 300 yards down the middle of the fairway. Well, I got the first bit right. I did proceed to smote it a very long way. The net result being the club owner shaking my hand in the 19th that evening saying....'Congratulations on your first drive today, Andy. I've lived here all my life, witnessing thousands of tee-offs, and can hand-on-heart say that I have never seen that happen before. Let me buy you a drink. (this is all true btw). What he was actually congratulating me for was managing to hoik my ball 125 yards left ricocheting off the roof of a not-so nearby house, clattering all sorts. He said that the owner had often popped into the club, returning a plastic bag of wayward balls that had ended up in his garden. But the roof is another matter altogether. The fact that I blasted my second ball way down the hey-diddle-diddle and parred the hole (i.e a double bogey) is worth absolutely diddly squat. What will go down in the annals started and ended with the drive. What made it worse is that my partner was a headteacher - a potential client for Linky to go and spread the joy to! Saying that, he's booking me up to let me loose on his bundles of joy in the Spring. There's no escaping Salmon when you're on your own with him for 4.5 hours. He didn't stand a chance. 'Two hopes' comes to mind. For the record, I beat him on the 18th. I'm only telling you this because me winning at golf is 'Blue Moon' country, as my golfing chums can confirm.

I was with some teenage boys over the weekend (steady) and couldn't help noticing that their baggy jeans were so low that they would put a 30 stone dart-playing builder called Eddie to shame. Belt & braces retailers must be going down the tubes! Obviously it looks hideous and I am dreading my two boys going down this route in a few years time. I can only imagine that it's a tactic to get the girls to do the same. No dice at the mo, boys.

One more shout then I'm done........The expression 'You know what?' is definitely the current front-runner in the 'Extremely annoying misuse of an expression' stakes. But 'Here's a thing ' is certainly giving it a run for its money. ....'Here's a thing, let's go to the shops and buy some clothes.'......'Here's a thing, I called my boyfriend and we had a chat.'....'Here's a thing, I'm going to school to hopefully pass my exams.'....'Here's a thing, here's a thing, here's a thing.......here's a schming!!!!! Goodness me! There goes another expression that I will never use again along with 'Literally', the last of the 3 horses in the Winner's' Enclosure....or should that be Losers?

Your chance to get involved

The site is a meeting-place for linkers & learners alike. So if you have a link for anything, absolutely anything, regardless of how whacko it is, then submit it and let's see what the campers think. If it's a high-5 slam-dunking 'get in!' link then it'll go in the book (as will your name). Also, you can request something to be linked, if you feel the urge. Linky and his fellow linkers do so love a challenge, yes we do.

Feedback

I would love to get your thoughts and observations on the site, good or bad. This has been a passion of mine since 1995 and it's finally come to fruition which is hugely exciting. However, it's all new territory for me. So any guidance or tips on what does and doesn't work will be warmly received - please let me know at andy.salmon@thinkalink.co.uk

Competition

Congratulations to 148Smurf for literally getting the 4 answers correct thereby increasing his/her bank balance by 100 squiddly diddlies. The answers were....

1. Belize 2. Panama 3. Maine 4. Rhode Island

Here is the next competition....

www.thinkalink.co.uk/content/competitions/competitions/competition-26-july-10-open

Email the answers to andy.salmon@thinkalink.co.uk and you will be entered into the draw for 100 smackers.

......and finally

Please let me know if you would prefer not to be contacted in this way and I will take you off my newsletter circulation list. If that is the case, please accept my apologies.

Let's sign off with some recent tib-ricklers which should make you grin a la Gordon Brown......

Barnsley FC play their football at Oakwell......Is oak well suited for building barns, Lee?

Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria....Does Sofia Ellis-Baxtor wear Bulgari jewellery?

Edward the Confessor (1042/1066) ruled just before William the Conqueror (1066/1087) as Confessor comes just before Conqueror in the alphabet.

Elizabeth (born 1926) became Queen Elizabeth II on Feb 6th 1952 and was crowned on June 2nd 1953..............6/2/52 & 2/6/53 (born in '26 which is half of 52!)

Ohhhhhhhh, drink a drink a drink to Linky the link the link. The saviour of the linking ra'hey'ace. For he invented medicinal linking. Most efficacious with every link.

Byeeeeeee!

Linkydeedoda xxx

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