Some Tuesday Twaddle - 4/2/25

You can have so much fun when you're retired.

I thought I must have blogged about this puzzle before but it seems not.  

It was a Christmas present from my son and DIL who are in the US.  They know I love a puzzle/challenge.  The wooden pieces can, apparently, be arranged around each day of the year.  So far I have managed to complete the puzzle for every day to date.  

Note I said for every day, not ON every day.  Most of them have been done on the day but I've slipped up a couple of times but I do have photographic evidence of all the dates.  Some days prove trickier than others.

When I started out I was thinking "I can do this for a year" but then my other son pointed out that, as next January 1st will be on a different day, to complete every combination would take me until 2031.  However, thanks to leap years it'll be 2035 before I've done all the combinations! (I think - haven't quite got my head around the leap year effect yet.)

Anyway I think a year is long enough for a challenge.  My current run on Wordle is 331 days but my win streak was 247 until one day last week.  Thankfully as that was my highest ever winning streak I wasn't too upset when I didn't get the word.  I'm sure there are some people that have done it every single day since it started but having missed that boat I'm not too disappointed if I miss one here or there.

I may be retired but there are still things that have to be done such as washing, cleaning etc.  Time to change the washing over.

Yep, Tuesday Twaddle.

I think I'm wired wrong!

We're away this week in South Wales.  The scenery is beautiful but the weather has been a bit hit and miss.  We've done a fair bit of walking though to make up for eating out and just eating!

Tomorrow we'll be travelling home and then visiting our daughter for dinner so I might not have time to do a news blog.  We haven't been immune to the news this week as we have a TV and we get a newspaper each day.  I like the Times as it's fairly accurate with its reporting and it has a great puzzle section.

Having had two close relatives (my Mum and her sister) succumb and pass away to Alzheimer's I can be forgiven for being a bit paranoid about going the same way. I do a lot of crosswords and puzzles.  I particularly like the killer sudoku in the Times.  There are usually two, one harder than the other and they give a time for completing them.  This week has been frustrating as twice I have messed up on the harder ones.  However yesterday I managed to do both but the easy one was supposed to take 12 minutes and it took me ages.  The harder one was quoted at 54 minutes.  I nearly didn't start it but I love a challenge and I completed that one in much less time.  

Now, should I just bask in the satisfaction of completing them or worry that my brain seems to work differently from the norm?  That's a rhetorical question, no sassy answers required.