2025 Word Game

[richardandtracy]

Devon

(Devon is often overrun by grockles in summer)

Regards,

Richard

[Serinde]

Highlands

(Same here; we can't go up to Loch Lomond during the season... but I must make clear that not all visitors are unpleasant grockles)

[fccs]

heather

(Oh, dear…was I one of the grockles when I visited Loch Lomond? I hope I was a good one…and I can’t wait to go back to beautiful Scotland.)

[Serinde]

midges

(don't worry -- I suppose I'm a type of grockle when I go up to Sutherland even after all these years, although I try to be more like an quasi-incomer with no permanent abode!)

[richardandtracy]

Flies

Regards,

Richard

[Serinde]

bluebottles

[Mabel Figworthy]

green bottles

[richardandtracy]

broken [bottles]


Regards

Richard

[Mabel Figworthy]

repaired

[Serinde]

conservation (getting us back to nouns rather than running down the verbal track)

[Mabel Figworthy]

vegetables (in Dutch "conserven" are tinned veggies etc.) (actually often sold in glass jars rather than tins but that's another matter.)