What’s in a word?

 Like many people I am part of a Wordle WhatsApp group where we keep everyone on the address list (which includes both kids, Em and her Mother, and my Brother in Law) up to speed on our daily score. 

For what must be a tiny proportion of the World’s population who have not come across Wordle, it is a word game that basically gives you 6 attempts to guess the daily word where correct letters are flagged as either being in the correct place (green) or at least in the word but in the wrong place (Taupe/Brown). 

It is great fun and a good way to stay in touch with your nearest and dearest. It was also a great favourite of my Father who was an avid part of the WhatsApp group. He sadly passed away in the Summer and this will be the subject of a longer post in due course. But it was very much in keeping with his general approach to life that not only was he enthusiastically tackling the challenge up until only a couple of days before he died but also (perhaps not so enthusiastically) he was prepared to embrace the WhatsApp technology on his Ipad/IPhone. This was by no means a given even though notwithstanding his advanced years he was an avid Teams/Skype/Zoom user despite the vagaries of the technology. However, as appears to be the case with a number of people of his vintage he was always quite suspicious of his mobile phone - the smaller keys did not help but I think he carried a deep suspicion of the likely costa of using it (even for a posting messages) which I assume was ingrained form when mobile phones were initially introduced,

In any event, he also took great delighted in keeping up with everyone’s scores and  - along with all the other ways he was part of our lives - he will be sadly missed from the daily round up of Wordle scores from around the globe.