Category Archives: Postcards 2023

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Round 4 of the word game – getting fiendish

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Whittaker’s Candy Cane

This delicious bar of chocolate has arrived all the way from New Zealand. The problem is resisting it, or, at least moderating intake. So, to spin out the pleasure, it has become today’s challenge. Hope you might have time to give it a go.

I’ve tried to create two sentences, the first letter of each word in the sentence beginning with the letters in Whittaker’s Candy Cane, each letter being used in the order it appears.

Here are my efforts. The first is a predicament.

What hope if the thriving, anticipating, Knaggs eats ravenously chocolate and new delights young Cate’s assembled, naming everyone?

The second is a little poem

When holly is thick,

the afternoons kiss evenings’ rich sunsets,

cold and new dawns yet coming,

candles adding nightly effervescence

Here’s hoping there’ll be another challenge tomorrow. Thanks for reading these.

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2023

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Round 3 of the word game – not too easy

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“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

These are a few of my favourite things.”

Today’s word, in case you haven’t guessed, is wrapping paper.

Here are two attempts from me:

“What really angered Parcel Post in New Galloway – properly angered people – electric ribbon.”

“When rogues and pesky pirates instigate new gambles, pacifists and pangolins everywhere retreat.”

Hope you’ll have the time to have a go. Perhaps you could come up with a brand new sentence, or else improve either one, or both, of the above.

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2023

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Round two of the word game – it’s getting harder

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“But on the inside there is nothing – only the bare gingerbread walls.

It is not a real house – not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room.

That’s when the stories can move in.” Vera Nazarian, the Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Here is today’s challenge – to make a sentence out of the letters in the words ‘The Gingerbread House’. The order of the words must remain the same as in the name of the item, in this case they would go:

T – H – E   G – I – N – G – E – R – B – R – E – A – D  H – O – U – S – E

These are my two attempts:

“Tea helps everything go in nice, gentle, easy rythyms by restoring energy and dopamine, helping our systems engage.”

“The house entrance goes into nine generously extended, refurbished bedrooms, rather excitingly and daringly haunted on unusually special evenings.”

Hope you might have fun with this.

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2023