Dead nettles bloom as March shows its face

16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four, with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle

Holmes: Undead, panel 13 The Kickstarter is funded, but you can still buy from the tiktok shop. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHwhvW2Du... #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics

Lichen and moss slowly encroaches on a centuries old red brick wall

A carpet of moss atop a gatepost

Sworn Virgin by Elvira Dones (translated by Clarissa Botsford) A fascinating and unique look at gender theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/swor... #booksky #bookreview #readingtheworld #albania

Holmes: Undead, panel 12 The Kickstarter is funded, but you can still buy from the tiktok shop. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHwhvW2Du... #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics

A apple tree bud girds itself as we finally get some sunshine, and spring doesn't seem such an impossible dream

Holmes: Undead, panel 11 The Kickstarter is funded, but you can still buy from the tiktok shop. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHwhvW2Du... #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics

Holmes: Undead, panel 10 The Kickstarter is funded, but you can still buy from the tiktok shop. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHwhvW2Du... #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics

Holmes: Undead, panel 9 The Kickstarter is funded, but you can still buy from the tiktok shop. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHwhvW2Du... #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics

Another slight variant, but you lot are clever, you'll work it out. #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle

Holmes: Undead, panel 8 The Kickstarter is funded, but you can still buy from the tiktok shop. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHwhvW2Du... #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics

Holmes: Undead, panel 7 The Kickstarter is funded, but you can still buy from the tiktok shop. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHwhvW2Du... #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80,000 PAGES 1 Life at Blandings by PG Wodehouse We start the journey proper, and where else to set out than my own doorstep... theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/life... #booksky #bookreview #readingtheworld

A filigree calyces of a Chinese Lantern, revealing a red berry

Crikey! We've actually got frost this morning. Glorious sunshine and all that.

‪Holmes: Undead, panel 6 We're now funded on Kickstarter as well as Zoop! There are 32 hours left to get in on the action. #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

Cyclamen: a hot pink hint of an imminent spring.

Back to a regular word wall this week, but a tricksy one, I think. #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle

We could learn a lot from mosses and lichens. Just sit there and quietly do our thing. Unobtrusive and sedately beautiful.

Holmes: Undead, panel 5 we're now funded on Kickstarter as well as Zoop! #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

Holmes: Undead, panel 4 #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

Sometimes living in Shropshire is like living in a gothic novel

No idea what fungus thus is, growing on dead wood in Shropshire

#paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

Holmes: Undead, panel 2 #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

Holmes: Undead, panel 1 #paneladay #holmesundead #sherlockholmes #comics www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

The rain it rains, most everyday

Lyell's bristle-moss, or so google lens tells me

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80,000 PAGES iii The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology The preamble continues with a collection of short stories imagining Holmes and Watson in different times and places. theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-... #booksky #bookreview #readingtheworld

Slightly different this week, but I'm sure you'll work it out. #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle

We are in spitting distance of being funded on Holmes: Undead No 1, with 10 days left to go. Will you be the one to finally push us over? www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

It's been quite a while since I did a stereogram, so here's some moss in yer face

‪‪A review of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak by Jamil Jan Kochai. It was OK, but failed to ascend beyond this. theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-... #booksky #bookreview #readingtheworld

Holmes: Undead is on sale in a real bricks and mortar comic shop! (If you're not in Minnesotta you can buy it via kickstarter) www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

Words are your friends. And here are 16 of your friends to serve an intervention. Arrange the 16 words/phrases into four groups of four, with a link for each, but beware the perilous red herring. #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle

Another mushroom, chicken of the woods this time. Upton Park, Shropshire.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80,000 PAGES ii Turbulence by David Szalay Another globally set book as part of my preamble. theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/turb... #booksky #bookreview #readingtheworld

Jelly ear (I think). Photographed in Dudmaston woods, Shropshire.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80,000 PAGES i Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne I've started by next trip around the world, or rather starter the preamble. theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/arou... #booksky #bookreview #readingtheworld

And just like that, it's Friday again. Arrange the 16 words/phrases into four groups of four, with a link for each, but beware the perilous red herring. #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle

Finished one challenge, starting another. This time its Around the World in 80,000 pages. You can follow my progress on my blog: theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com #booksky #bookreview #readingtheworld #worldliterature

I finally finished my ROUND THE WORLD IN 65(ISH) NOVELS challenge. In the end, I read 100 novels from 77 different countries Find out my top five on my blog: theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/arou... #booksky #bookreview #readingtheworld

ROUND THE WORLD IN 65(ISH) NOVELS 100: Holy Island by LJ Ross - UK The last book of my challenge. We end, not so much with a bang, as a disappointed sigh. #booksky #bookreview #uk #readingtheworld

ROUND THE WORLD IN 65(ISH) NOVELS 99: Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun (translated by W Worster) - Norway A deceptively complex tale of life in rural Norway #booksky #bookreview #norway #readingtheworld

This is a page from Holmes: Undead, written by me with art by the incredible Virgilio Calgagno. Currently on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas... #comics #indiecomics #sherlockholmes

You can grab Holmes: Undead no 1 on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas... #comics #sherlockholmes

213, unlucky for some. Arrange the 16 words/phrases into four groups of four, with a link for each, but beware the perilous red herring. #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle

Friday's grid was unfortunately delayed due to snow and me forgetting what it was. But better late than never. On the plus side we are back to a standard 4x4 grid, and an easy one at that.