torsdag den 17. april 2025

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ Q

  Warning! This post contains the answer to today's Wordle
Proceed at your own risk

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once
.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.


And I do know that today was one of the days I warned against no posts, but I had the time, so why not.


Q is for Quail.  No olvar with Q I went with a kelvar instead, also runners up were Quill, Quilt, and Quart, but no real growing there. We've been discussing whether to have these tiny fowls in our greenhouse, as yet undecided.
HYard word today. I had a whole papler filled whíth S T O _ D and S _ O T D combinations, until I once again remembered that repeating letters was a thing. I got Splendid for four tries.

onsdag den 16. april 2025

Words for Wednesday ~ April 16

In April,  Elephant's Child is supplying the prompts for Words for Wednesday.

Word for Wednesday is a challenge that was started a long time ago. Now it has turned into a movable event with Elephant's Child as our coordinator; and the Words provided by a number of people.

The general idea of this challenge is to make us write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.

 It is also a challenge, where the old saying
"The more the merrier" holds true.

So Please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.

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This Wednesday's prompts:
Organic
Standards
Odour
Moisture
     And/or
20 years
Noses
Pregnant
Gloves
High

 I succeeded in adding yet another chapter to Sue and Bill's strange adventure. Mostly stalling, but a bit of progress is happening. As usual I use the words in the order they were given. 


Bill's gentle hands danced over the keyboard, he and his computer were almost like an organic unit to Sue. Maybe their methods were not always up to the moral standards set my their superior, but they kept themselves in good odour by bringing results -- every time.
Sue felt moisture collecting in her eyes. She loved that scoundrel, even after 20 years. They had solved many improbable and strange riddles together, mostly by following their noes - - or those of the ghost dogs.
Sue left Bill to his typing, and wandered to the car. The car was a new model, electric, and practically noiseless. In a very short time she parked outside the dog handler's house.
Sue rang the bell, and waited. It was the dog handler's wife who answered the bell. Sue asked if they could have Eryn, their old dog, back. The training of her pups had been fun, but it was only a parenthetic affair in their work. When Eryn, had become pregnant this was where it had gone to have her pups. Now the pups had been trained, Eryn was back to normal, fit for fight and eager to pull on her working gloves once more. Sue had high hopes of solving the riddle of Fred Thompson, the unknowing seventh son, plagued by ghosts.

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ P

  Warning! This post contains the answer to today's Wordle
Proceed at your own risk

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once
.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.



P is for Petal.  I also considered Pears, Pansy, and Pines. But then this old song from A Day at the Races (Marx Brothers) mixed itself into it. Choice made.

All God's Flowers got Petals.
All God's Flowers got swing
Maybe haven't got money
Maybe haven't got shoes
All God's Flowers got Petals.
Once again solved in 5 guesses, earning me a Great!

tirsdag den 15. april 2025

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ O

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once
.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.



O is for Opium.  Reeally? Yes really. Not because I am growing my own. The reason is that I like poppies, but no way am I going to use Poppy as a starter word tomorrow. Not with three P's. No way, not going to happen. Today the poppies will be represented by the one thing I do not harvest from them. I harvest their beauty, I harvest their shiny petals, always trying new ways to put this spendor into something lasting. I harvest poppyseeds for buns and bread.

As yesterday I was at a cinema watching Lord of th Rings I extended edition (four hours), I would have liked to use my Elven theme word OLVAR*) for today, but Wordle do not accept Elvish, sadly.

Oh, a Wordle. Here we go:
Phew!

*) Olvar - living things that do not move from place to place - as opposed to kelvar, living things that do move.

Poetry Monday on a Tuesday
:: Også på dansk ::
And not using the Topic :: Bring

Every Monday is Poetry Monday.

Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over the hosting duties, mostly the supplying of the prompts - only temporarily we hope - while Diane at On the Border is taking a break for health and relaxation, travelling the world with her husband as far as we can tell.
 
We just hope she's going to take back over once she returns home.

  I have something to ask of you: If you read this and the poetry of others via the links, would you please leave a comment.
  Half - if not more - the fun of these challenges is receiving the responses of others
.


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Hver mandag er det tid for at skrive et vers. Det gjorde jeg da også på vej til København i toget. Jeg kiggede ud gennem vinduet og så millioner af anemoner i skovbunden. Senere så jeg et enkelt blomstrende kirsebærtræ. Så skrev jeg hele to små vers. Et elfje på engelsk og et dansk haiku.

Sakura vi ser,
rejser langt og længe, men
hvad med anemoner?

Jeg fik aldrig lagt digtene op i går. Da vi endelig nåede hjem igen, var der tid til en enkelt kop the og så i seng.
 
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I wrote a poem yesterday, riding the train to Copenhagen, but when I returned home, all I wanted was a cup of tea and my bed.
Yesterday, from the train windows, I saw a sea of Anemoner covering the woods. Then I saw a single blossoming cherry tree and made this elfje:

Sakura,
we travel
far to celebrate.
In local woods, forgotten
Anemoner!


Picture of Sakura:

Picture of Anemoner:

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Elfje:
An Elfje contains five lines and 11 Words.
First line is one word, (this word is a colour or feature.), second line is two words, (something or someone with this colour or feature), third line, three words (gives more information about the person or the object). Fourth line, four words (tell about yourself in relation to the person or the object. This sentence is your conclusion). Fifth line is again one word. This word is called the ‘Bomb.’ It is the essence of the poem.

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Up and coming:
April 14: Bring (today)
April 21: Free
April 28: Jam
May 5: Competition
May 12: Shape
May 19: Stem
May 26: Lead