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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

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Here’s a word game as the year ends

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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