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.
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Y is for Yeast - thank you, Jenny_o. I use Yeast very often, for breads, buns, some cakes and even for my dabbling in mead-brewing. So far only yucky results ... hey another Y-word! Yeast can strangely also be found in the garden; wild yeast live everywhere, and was the culprit behind my exploding bottles of elderflower cordial. Yes they exploded! Leaving shards and cordial all over. Luckily nobody got hurt, as we had just left the kitchen, but I cleaned all of the next day, and the container, I then used for washing powder, and now for the picking of berries, still have a hole where a big shard entered it - I ditched all the washing powder inside it.
Yeast might be a good starter word, in fact I'm sure it is. But today it served mostly to exclude a lot of letters, which turned out to be a good thing. I guessed the word in four tries today, again more luck than skill, earning me a Splendid.
How fortunate there was no one in the kitchen when the explosion happened - this story could have had an even worse result than having to clean all day. I'm glad everyone is safe. Well done on the Wordle! I think we use the same approach to this game.
SvarSletThank you, and yes the thoughts of what could have happened made me scared - still do actually.
SletI think so too dor the Wordles.
You are definitely no dummy. Like jenny_o I am glad that the explosion didn't have people in the way though I am sure the clean up was massive. And sticky.
SvarSletThanks, sticky is the word. Imagine a semi-pulverized glass bottle and sugary, sticky cordial. I washed ALL of the kitchen - including the ceiling. The biggest shards left over were 5x3 cm. It was a regular bomb.
SletYou did very well in your guessing.
SvarSletI can only imagine how hard the clean-up was of the sticky mess.
Thank you.
SletIt was time consuming ;) as already described.
Four tries 😃 I don't have much luck with yeast. I buy it with good intentions but by the time I get around to some baking the yeast is too old (even dried yeast gets too old) and the baking is a disaster. That's when the birds out on the grass get a feast.
SvarSletAhh nice.
SletWe bake often, not as often as we used to, but still around once a week. It is only my dry teast growing too old, because yes it can! I always have some for when we run out of fresh - but almost never use it. Once it was more than 3 years past last use by date ;) leading to the poor bread being mostly like a stone. It was thrown to our chicken, who happily are it - over several days.