A-Z Challenge ~ E for Emoji

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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 hope to post every day at noon my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!).

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.

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 Emoji. It was unexpectedly difficult, and I only just solved it:

Wordle 1.752 6/6
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜
🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Today's Wordle Review tells me it has an "average of 4 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging." I no longer ap keeping up with the average - maybe because of my forced starter words.

Emoji! What on eartih is the connection between travels and Emoji? 

Buth befroe and after getting married, hubby and I traveled for a month each summer. We had a strict budget as young and still studyung, but we bothe were good at languages, and we had friends in many places in Europe. We camped in out of the wasy campsites, and walked long distances by foot to see the sights of many an European town and city.

In many plcaces we found we were not the first to visit -- we met the OG emoji. We met it in Colosseum, Rome, in back alleys in Paris, under the bridges in Venice, in short everywhere in Europe we met a man with a long nose looking at you over a wall -- Killroy was here.

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

And now for today's Wordle

EMOJI:

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.

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:

Glædelig påske ~ Happy Easter

Kristus er opstanden - Ja, Han er sandelig opstanden. Halleluja!

Christ is risen - He is risen indeed. Alleluia!

Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! - Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!

A-Z Challenge ~ C for Camel

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 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.

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 Camel. It was unexpectedly difficult, and I only just solved it:

Wordle 1.750 6/6
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

When I was on my big journey in Africa, we naturally visited the pyramids.

Some of the richer participants went for a ride on camel-back. I did not, as the price of the ride was the same as two day's food.

Later they told, that it was not even fun, the Camel is not for nothing called the ship of the desert, The became slightly seasick, and the camel riders took them on a long trip and tried to make them pay more to get back. One of the boys then told the other ones to thump and holler at the camels, as this would make them head for home.

It worked, and by holding tight, they returned to where they again could see the pyramids and get back.

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

CAMEL:

The solution fits my starter word nicely, don't you think?

A-Z Challenge ~ B for Beach

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 every day at noon my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

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.

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.

And as always there's Easter with busy days and family things, so my posting schedule might look a bit erratic, more so in the beginning.

Today my starting word is Beach. Intuition hit me and I solved the Wordle in 4 tries:

Wordle 1.748 4/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

On another journey with family and friends we were camping in Portugal. I'll tell two incidents from this journey, this is the second timewise, and when - if - I make it to number two (R), you'll see that we did not learn from experience.

Later on, we found a nice, sandy stretch of beach, and wanted to go swimming. We were not alone, and some suspicious, local types were coming and going by car. The small village at the end of the beach housed a goodly proportion of smugglers and moonshiners.
Ergo we were afraid they would run away with money and watches etc. while we were out swimming, and we did not any of us want to sit alone on a towel guarding our meagre possession while the other three were out swimming.

We put all our things in two blue shopping bags - those flimsy ones you got everywhere when shopping, and in which we had some fruit and bread. We buried the bags in the sand under the towels. Then we went swimming.

It was fun, big, but not too big waves and nice, lukewarm water. Suddenly we realized that the tide were coming in and the water was at our towels. We swam and ran in, grabbed the towels and set out for higher ground. Then one of us remembered our valuables, buried under the towels. But where were they now!

We ran around, searching. Then luckily one of us saw a glimpse of blue. The bags! we ran there and caught the bags before the waves did. Only a couple of the banknotes were soggy.

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

Tomorrow is Good Friday, no blogging for me. See you Saturday.

And now to the Wordle

BEACH: