Wordle is like Mastermind with letters instead of numbers or colours. You have to guess a 5 letter word in 6 or less attempts. You can only use real words (ie found in a dictionary) for each guess. Get a letter correct, but in the wrong position, and the letter turns yellow. Get the letter…
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Hercule Poirot and the Nile?
I went to the movies tonight (first time in forever thanks to covid) to see the latest version of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. I’m not wanting to talk about the movie overall (very enjoyable, although Hercule isn’t quite…right – a bit like Bond wearing a tails and asking for a gin and tonic).…
When days are scrambled
It’s Wednesday night here at the moment. But my brain doesn’t seem to register. All week I’ve been a day ahead of myself. Not great when you find yourself booking things in for the next day thinking it was later the same day. Oops. I’m not sure why it happens, but it seems to happen…
Poop, it’s autumn :(
Today is the 1st of March…and that makes it the first day of autumn. We’ve had such a cool (and overcast) summer, that I am struggling with the idea we are now in autumn. I mean, I’m not a fan of the cold anyway (as regular readers of my blog would know), but usually we…
The week that was
Sometimes you never know what’s around the corner, and for me that was last week. In the very early hours of Monday I woke up to a sick Barbarian. Before the day was out, we were in an ambulance on our way to hospital. Four days later, after living and sleeping in a chair by…