A-Z Challenge 2025 - B is for Balderdash

Well continuing on with no theme I'm probably going to be writing a lot of balderdash over the next month, especially as I'm winging it this year and I don't have many posts planned in advance.  Actually if I get this post finished tonight I will be one ahead of myself as it's the 31st March today and I do have my A post complete and ready to publish tomorrow.

Of course I could end up getting side tracked.  Balderdash is similar to Boulderdash, an arcade game that I used to play many moons ago.  Out of curiosity I googled it tonight and......drumroll - you can play it online.  I just tried.  I wasn't very good though.  Took me a while to work out which keys to use to move the little man around.  (The arrows on the numeric keypad on my laptop - once I'd turned the NumLock key off!)  Took me a few minutes to remember what I was actually supposed to be doing too - collect the diamonds without getting a boulder falling on you and then find the exit.  I had a few tries and once I managed to collect all the required diamonds but ran out of time just before I reached the exit.

I was tempted to try again but reason prevailed.  I need to get this post done.  Tomorrow is a busy day with an early start so I might not get another post done and then I'll be playing catch up on Wednesday.  I need to at least be one step ahead to reduce the level of angst I wrote about yesterday.

Moving on to the list of countries beginning with B 

(I mentioned yesterday that although I don't officially have a theme but as a bonus I thought I'd see how many countries in the World I've visited or might visit.) 

• Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Belize
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Brunei
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• 
  

Of those I've been to Belgium although more on a passing through kind of visit rather than the destination.  We passed through a couple of times when travelling to the Netherlands and we've also been there when staying with relatives in northern France.  We did actually make a trip to Bruges now I think of it.  The chocolates were divine.  Mmm maybe that's a good word for C.

That's 3 out of 197 countries then - the list I'm working from can be found here.

And 2 out of 26 letters.  

I'm pretty sure which is going to have the higher percentage come the 30th April.  Of the remaining B's Barbados is the only one jumping out for me as a possibility.