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Pack the Bags: We're Going on Scrabble Holiday

Posted by Emily Farris

 

Sorry for all the Scrabble coverage today, but all things Scrabble and Scrabulous-related are hot news right now. And we got a little too excited about the Scrabble Holiday being offered at a hotel in the English countryside.

Thanks to Facebook, defiantly undigital board games are enjoying an electronic revival, and serendipitously the country retreat is offering a Scrabble holiday. The Lake District does not have to fear that its peaceful shores will be polluted by the beeping of computers, however. The five-day retreat at Rothay Manor, hard by Lake Windermere, at the start of March, will feature the more traditional Scrabble format: a board, some tiles, and probably even the famous green bag, with competitors face to face, eyeballing each other over a well-thumbed dictionary.


Who's with us?

[The Guardian: Bed and the Scrabble board] 


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Posted Jan 17 2008, 12:48 PM
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spectrumseven said:

Thank you Emily Ferris for providing a link to your website on my favorite website.  I am currently engaged in courtship rituals and am failing miserably.  Thank you for yer insight and the laughs.  I never realized Marla Singer (that's her real name right? I'm American) was so beautiful.  Scarlett Johansen is taken? Do ihave to subscribe to your website via a log in window or is t available to me on the world wide web?  In summary, As soon as I can figure out facebook I'm gonna be all over those board games.  Ask me hoe falkland good I am at battleship.

January 20, 2008 6:49 PM

About Emily Farris

Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook will be published in fall 2008. Emily lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cat, but just one...so far.

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about the blogger

Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook will be published in fall 2008. Emily lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cat, but just one . . . so far.

Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

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