The Ides of March

I got Wordle in three today, with no prizes for astuteness. My two starter words produced four green tiles. No anagram-solving was involved. All I had to do was think of the missing letter and slot it in. It took me an unconscionable length of time to do so. I even wondered if it could be a word I don’t know. I resorted to a dictionary for the first time. I found a couple of letters which at least produced a pronounceable group -- I mean, obviously it wasn’t “x” or “q” – but that didn’t help. I finally gave up and started moving around the kitchen making my breakfast, and then I thought of it. When Helen came to escort me on my walk, I tried her and she got it at once. She doesn't do Wordle.

 

I don’t think I’m spoiling anything for anybody if I tell you that it’s a word you’ll certainly know.

 

Lynne sent me a comment on yesterday’s post which for some reason doesn’t appear, although it was forwarded to my mailbox. She says she got yesterday’s “smelt” in two, having started with “shite”. I think that’s pretty astute – one green and two browns. I couldn’t have done that.

 

So, I walked around the garden. Helen came early. And then had my Tuesday bath.

 

And pressed forward with the Baby Surprise. I’ve now used two of my five graduated colours. I think I’m going to come out about right, yarn-wise.

 

Judy (comment yesterday), it is one of the oddest facts known to nature that men and women have the buttons on their shirts on opposite sides. Has it always been so? Is it so all over the world? Is there a Wikipedia article on the subject? I can remember how surprised I was when I discovered this fact in my teens. EZ says, for the Surprise, to put the buttonholes on both sides and then, when the sex is known, sew the buttons over the holes on one side or the other.

 

It is odd, perhaps, for a woman who seemed so scornful of “Blind Followers”, that she revelled so in the puzzle she was setting in the pattern for the Surprise.