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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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Impressions of New Zealand – June 2022

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Auckland – Finding Parnell

State Highway 1

The North Shore was a fine place to stay, but leaving it was not so easy … at least not the way I did it.

I’d been lent an old car to simplify my trips to the centre of Auckland. The car, a veteran of the beaches and foothills of New Zealand, sat low on the road, leaking sand and old trainers.

“It’ll get you anywhere,” said the owners of the car.

“Sure,” I replied.

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Impressions of New Zealand – June 2022

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Aotearoa – the North Shore

New Zealand just visible beneath the cloud

There it was, “the land of the long white cloud”, gleaming on the surface of the ocean. I watched its shores get closer and closer.

Thirty hours of travel were about to end. London was now the dot out of sight, and there below was the upside down, lumpy exclamation mark that I’d peered at so often on our map on the kitchen wall.

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