Category Archives: In betweens

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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

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Here’s a word game as the year ends

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Wreath

Time is proving hard to catch hold of at this time of year, so here’s a plan to help see The Phraser through to the end of its 365 days of blogging.

The idea is that the post on each of the remaining days will be of something related to the season. There will be a photograph with a word beneath it, and the challenge will be to make a sentence using words starting with each of the letters in the name of the item in the image. Today, for example, the image is a wreath – W R E A T H.

Here is a sentence linked to those letters. Hope you might try too, if you have the time. There must be better ideas out there than the one below.

W – Will R – robin – E – eat – A – all – T – the – H – holly

Will robin eat all the holly?

Thanks for reading. Tomorrow the word will be a little trickier.

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2023

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More ‘modernising and maintenance’

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It’s been one of those hot and bothering kind of days, but I like to think there has been some progress – not much ‘modernising’ perhaps but some ‘maintenance’ of The Phraser site.

This afternoon has been dedicated to retrieving postcards from the draft novel and trying to arrange them in some form of accessible order on the front page. I’m now about two thirds of the way through.

In case you have time to test the improvements please click on the Postcards 2023 heading in the menu bar which should then lead you to Draft of Uprooted. If you slide your cursor across that heading it should drop down to a list of six different groupings (1 – 10; 11 – 18; 19 – 26; 27 – 33; 34 – 39; and 39 – 46). Placing a cursor on each of those should pull up a list of the 500 word sections in each collection.

Hope it works. It’s taken me a while to sort out. Will let you know if/when I finish.

Thanks for reading.

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2023