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A-Z Challenge ~ Debug

This year again 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 almost every day at noon my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!), not on Good Friday, though, so I need to post on at least one Sunday to make up for this, And I'll post later Sunday because I'll have to return back home first.

As the alternative badges, as supplied by Lissa suggest travel I'll prefer travel-related words as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once
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I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me and I have time and energy for it, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.


Today my starting word is Debug. It was unexpectedly difficult, and I only just solved it:

Wordle 1.751 6/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
But then the Wordle Review also tell me it has an "average of 6 guesses out of 6, or very challenging." Actually I mostly hit the average.

Debug! When I was on my big journey in Africa, we lived with the people wherever we were, naturally this included some not so pleasant side effects. Bugs were one of them. If you're not in for graphic descriptions of creepy-crawlies, fleas, mites and lice just skip today's story. 

At intervals during our journey - we travelled through Egypt and Sudan for almost two months - we stayed at more luxurious places. One such was at a very rich man's palace in an oasis in southern Egypt. He owned enormous stretches of land, a village or two full of people, and lived in what I can only call a palace. His sons all worked in the off-shore, one of them had even been to Norway.

He had food and drink flown in by helicopter from Uganda at least once a week - he even had his own landing pad. Breakfast was imported white bread, eggs from his columbary, imported jams, tea and coffee with local buffalo milk. This was a luxury after weeks on beans and bread with weevils in it.

As I wrote in my topsy turvy Bucket-list post:
I've eaten bread with beetles, yes!
At least in bread
they were baked and dead
In biscuits - well, I'll let you guess.

But the biggest luxury was a washing machine and a shower. I had a sleeping bag with a yellow inside. It was perfect for flea-spotting, the small black bugs stood out against the yellow background. All three of us stripped naked in the laundry room, stuffed everything that could be washed into the machine, and jumped into the shower where we washed thoroughly for a long, long time. 

Lice were a worse plague, we had to live with them, as washing only somewhat removed the biggest ones, and did nothing to the eggs at all. After our return to Denmark we bought combs and lice shampoo. All were combed, lice were found and we had a treatment ... except for one boy who said that he had no lice, as his scalp did not itch. But and we all continued to be infested with lice, me and one other insisted on combing him. In the end he gave in --- combing was not necessary in order to find anything, as we lifted his hair his scalp was literally crawling with lice.

Still now I begin itching all over from just writing this.

This too was short, with some obscure hints. Sorry. I hope to have time and energy for more in the coming days.

And now for today's Wordle

DEBUG:

10 kommentarer:

  1. Dealing with bugs is challenging, but it’s a reality, especially if you travel. I’m sure it was a relief to have the combs and treatments available when you got home.

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    1. You bet it was. I now wonder why we did not bring combs, I'd do so were I to repeat the journey.

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  2. This made me itch:). Brizzy May

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  3. Ugh! Lice! I am extremely thankful that neither myself nor any other member of my family has ever had them, since 1999 when the oldest grandchild got them at age 5 while at school. Only once, then never again.

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    1. Thankfully it's a long time we last had any. Lice have strangely become more common in Denmark again. We now "celebrate" an annual de-licing day.

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  4. Well, that was a journey! I love how you're creating these posts.
    “Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.” - Anaïs Nin


    J (he/him 👨🏽 or 🧑🏽 they/them) @JLenniDorner ~ Speculative Fiction & Reference Author and Co-host of the April Blogging #AtoZChallenge international blog hop

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  5. People who deny things are a bit foolish. Why does he think he wasn't affected? I don't like creepy crawlers. Sounds awful, just reading it.

    I see you have switched to the pop-up comment box option. I don't like how your replies are not under the original comment when you see it on the page but at least, it is that way in the pop-up box.

    Have a lovely day.

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    1. I changed commenting because Blogger is acting up, and Pop-up comments normally works bettetr in these situations. I do not like that way either, and will change back as soon as Blogger behaves - or when the A-Z ends - whichever comes first ;)

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