Sudoku Puzzles

Have a great day/evening everyone. I am enjoying my niece who is visiting with us from Chicago. Time goes by much to quick!

Here's today's one - not easy either, but it will get you thinking for a while! Answers to the bird watching inbox (and if you can, give me an explanation of that too please!!)
A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only More...

question - are we supposed to play this success game on a personal level or not - seems half and half for the moment.

Fiona, I posted the original as a joke. Ray suggested a game. Go for it young lady!

but Greg, I'm so young I can only do the first three!

Thanks CG. I'll try to look into that. I find the two volcanic ashes interesting.

It's up to you Fiona

Sheila: It was the Queen in 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' who painted roses. So you go around painting wild flowers - is that to improve their colour? !!

ok I'll try!
success at 4 - learning to read by myself, an exploit repeated by my son a few years later.
success at 12 - being put in a class at secondary school with none of my existing friends and surviving.
success at 14 - getting out of that class!
success at 20 - doing a summer job More...

The Queen didn't paint the roses, Rayray. Her men/ cards painted them. When the Queen discovered them painting the flowers, she ordered "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS".

Oh, that's going to be fun, Fiona!
Going out in awhile, but I'll work on it when I get home....

Success is ...
At age 4 success is shedding the training wheels on the bike.
At age 12 success is needing to buy a training bra.
At age 16 success is dating the captain of the basketball team.
At age 20 success is surviving college.
At age 35 success is raising great kids.
At age More...

Don't worry Kathy. I think it's easy. But I'm dyslexic.

At age 4 success is learning to ice skate.
At age 16 success is still being best friends with kids I'd met in kindergarten.
At age 20 success is being independent.
At age 35 success is really loving what I am doing for a living (writing)
At age 50 success is being able to work with More...

LOL, rayray!
Sometimes I DO wonder why I try painting them since they already look perfect!

At age 4 success is catching a tadpole.
At age 12 success is surviving middle school.
At age 16 success is passing your driver's test.
At age 20 success is moving from the dorms into an apartment.
At age 35 success is beginning to understand and like who you are.
At age 50 success is More...

Thou shalt not let an hour elapse.

to you,
to you,
dear Haz!!!
to you!
May your special day be wonderful with a and lots of !

At age 4 success is surviving the first year in the US.
At age 12 success is surviving music theory classes at USC.
At age 16 success is passing the driver's test and then whining about having to get the keys to the family car (had to drive my brothers all over the place).
At age 20 More...

100!

Success is ...
At age 4 success is surviving preschool.
At age 12 success is making new friends after having to move.
At age 16 success is finding my true love, even thought I didn't know it then.
At age 25 success is owning my own business.
At age 40 success is enjoying my second More...

Morning - it is still just! Off to work this afternoon, but doing some household chores here first - won't call it cleaning up, I seem to have made more mess than when I started.

Missed...

Heidi, I agonized over #3!! I have fried my brain again.
I must rest....

CG,
on 60s but same as you

Good night worldly people.

2.09 A beautiful photo of a beautiful orchid.

Heidi it is coming back to me.
The Queen's men were painting the roses because they had planted ones of the wrong colour. I think (I may be wrong) the Queen ordered the decapitations as much because they had planted the wrong roses as that they were painting them.

I am shocked I am forgetting Lewis Carrol's stuff.

Shosho:
Please don't misinterpret my irony, but I find it strange that you will need to reach 80 before you start thinking for yourself. It's OK. I know what you mean.
Fiona:
Don't fear the surgeons knife too much - if ever. It happens when it is the best option.

Ian:
You are becoming the world authority on time distribution of posting messages. Your discoveries are interesting. I wonder why these huge gaps? They do seem to be statistically significant anomalies - needs checking.
Take a week's messages. Note all the times. Estimate the differences in More...

The original distribution of the data set will likely be a Poisson distribution - always a bit hard to cope with by conventional methods.

Th real times of the messages might exhibit some rhythmic pattern across the world time zones. Who first suggested that? Was it Jane?

Maths geek!

Yes Gail. Sorry! - and a CP-er

It is usually mid afternoon in Australia when people have plenty else to do, and USA and Europe sleeps. If we had more members living in Pacific islands, South Asia, Middle East, we would better cover the 24 hours. Another factor is that it is better to keep quiet when you have nothing to say.
I More...

Another reason I believe is that not everyone yet has broadband. They are therefore tied by time and costs. I like the gaps from time to time. I like to think everyone is using this down time to come up with literary gems, or Greg-type jokes or Rayray poems. We all need time to charge our batteries. I'm off to plug mine in before I face a trip to Lidl.

Another reason could be to avoid my waffling on.......

go to Lidl Mo! get it over and done with!

Hehe Mo, we love your waffling although waffles would be better served hot!