mandag den 27. april 2026

A-Z Challenge ~ W for Wagon

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

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 plan to post the A-Z post around noon every day of April.

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 Wagon.
The average today is 6 guesses out of 6, or very challenging. I am below average again today.

Wordle 1.773 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wagon - One of the parts a train is composed of. In Egypt took a train along the Nile through desert and ferile lands down to the Aswan dam - that's the train journey with the Nomads from N.

We stayed in the train for a very long time. It was strange to be suddenly analphabetic. But as we did not read much Arabic, we were functionally analphabetics here. Every time the train stopped, we asked, along with quite a few Egyptians actually: "Where are we?" And some smart person looked at the name of the station and told us.

We also drowe through a sandstorm, not a bad one, but we had sand everywhere. Even in the inside bottom end of my sleeping bag, that had been rolled together during the trip. I did not sleep in the train, but many did, and as the train emptied, some of the smarter ones crawled up and laid down in the overhead luggage racks. We even made a song about this, on the tune of Jailhouse Rock which had been made in a Danish version only a few years earlier. We had much fun and sang much during this journey.


And now for today's Wordle, which at the beginning made me think that they did not use any letters. Well they almost did not:

søndag den 26. april 2026

Sunday Selection ~ Wordle 🙂

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

🙂

The only thing I've found with the colour of the month:

Are more Wordles. It's not the exact same green, but close enough. Today I'm not doing A-Z, my Wordle does not count for my stats, I was free to fool around. I did and that may be why I did not solve it today.  It should not be that hard, only 4.8 of 6.

Wordle 1.772 X/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩

And the Wordle - with an almost solution:


lørdag den 25. april 2026

A-Z Challenge ~ V for Visas

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

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 plan to post the A-Z post around noon every day of April.

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 Visas.
The average today is 5.3 guesses out of 6, or very challenging. I am a bit above average here - but I feel a bit cheated. While looking for "how many Wordle solutions" out of curiosity and cited in O for Ocean, I read that Wordle does NOT use plural forms! I see now, searching further, that this was a half truth. Wordle does indeed use plurals, but only irregular ones.

Wordle 1.771 6/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟩🟨🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Visas - To travel like we did through the countries behind the Iron Curtain, we needed lots of visas.

We spent at least a week waiting at embassies, consulates and whatnots and speak to often stuffy bureaucrats, only reluctantly giving us the required stampings in our passports. Some of them were beautiful, in multicoloured ink or flourishing fonts often in other alphabets. Later on we also acquired some in Arabic one of these even came with a stamp. I think it was the Egypt one. 
No drama here, only quite a bit of train trips to Copenhagen, where all the embassies were - and a lot of time wasted waiting.

And now for today's Wordle:

fredag den 24. april 2026

A-Z Challenge ~ U for Urban

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 plan to post the A-Z post around noon every day of April.

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 Urban.
The average today is 4.3 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging. I am below average again today.

Wordle 1.770 3/6
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Urban - U was an unexpectedly hard starting letter. I really could find no travel related words. Also today I have no story to tell. 


And now for today's Wordle:

Trunk was one of the words I considered for T, so of course it was still upmost in my brain. Lucky dip this was.

torsdag den 23. april 2026

Service Announcement ~ Train Accident

If any of you have read about a train accident in Northern Zealand and wonder whether it touches me, the answer is that it does.

Fortunately neither me, nor any of my family members were in these exact trains.

One of the Owlets should have taken the next one, and had to take a replacement bus.

Because yes, this is our train, the one we travel with several time a week.


I feel sorry for the wounded train drivers, passengers and their family.