London, June 2020
–
Welcome to One Word Sunday, and over to all of you to join the challenge with your own handy post. Make it as convenient and useful as you like – we can see why the German speakers us this word for their mobile phones.
To join the challenge, please use pingback by putting a link in your post to the URL of this post, allowing others to have the opportunity to visit and join the challenge. Then come back here and leave us a comment.
If you have any problems with linking via pingback, just add your own URL into your comment.
It also helps us find you in the WordPress Reader, if you use etc tags OWS and OneWordSunday.
Thanks to everyone who found something missing last week.
Special thanks go to Jez for a clever image that let us all imagine our own story; to Lady Sighs for some excellent words; and, to Sue for s stunning image with many thing missing. .
If you didn’t have chance to check out everyone’s offerings, the links are below. Why not grab a coffee now and go blog exploring.
- Another Day in Paradise
- Brian at Bushboy’s World
- David M’s Photo Blog
- Elke at Pictures Imperfect
- Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery
- Jackie at JunkBoat Travels
- Janet at This, That and the Other Thing
- Jez Braithwaite
- Ju-Lyn at Touring my Backyard
- Klara at Sliku Svoju Lyubim II
- Lady Sighs
- Le Drake Noir
- Lin’s Doodles
- Marie at Hops Skips and Jumps
- Nicole at Une photo, un poème
- One Million Photographs
- Philosophy via Photos
- Photo Robert’s Blog
- Sabine at Hinter den Tueren
- Sandy at Out of My Write Mind
- Steve at a London Miscellany
- Sue at Words Visual
- Teleporting Weena
- Teresa at My Camera and I
- Tom at Beyond the Sphere
- Woolly Muses
Next week’s theme will be ponder or pond.
Other forthcoming themes are listed here, and to see previous weeks of this challenge, click here
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 11 July 2021
Posted as part of One Word Sunday
…
Travel with Intent 
Handy haha, Nice one Debbie! That’s a good bunch to browse through, thanks for sharing.
LikeLike
hi debbie, two very interesting pictures that you also present to us for a week theme I like them very much. here is my contribution to the challenge, https://wp.me/p2AvI7-3PB.
many greetings robert
LikeLike
LikeLike
They certainly are handy, what did we do before?
LikeLike
An inspiring prompt to merge with July squares!
LikeLike
Lots of ways to go with this one, Debbie!
Here’s my take: https://outofmywritemind.com/2021/07/11/always-at-hand/
LikeLike
A really good theme, Debbie. Love your captures for it. Here’s my contribution: https://anotherday2paradise.wordpress.com/2021/07/11/one-word-sunday-handy/
LikeLike
Even a handy (German!) is a mobile phone, I tried to find something handy (English)
LikeLike
Glad I was late to the game this morning. The comments are quite interesting. I love what you have inspired!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, it’s often fun hoping a post late on and getting a bit of chatter in ether comments. Glad you enjoyed it, Dawn
LikeLiked by 1 person
You really are tricky today, Debbie. This was a hard one and I almost went a different way but here’s something handy if you need to cross the creek:
janet
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sorry! The words are often easy for some and hard for others – sometimes they trigger an idea and sometimes they just baffle. I know the feeling! But I’m popping over now to see what way you went in the end 🙂
LikeLike
No apologies needed. I know you have something in mind what you pick the word and it’s fun to see what I and everyone else can come up with.
LikeLike
LikeLike
I will admit I don’t go anywhere without my phone, it is my google, GPS, book and camera.
https://junkboattravels.blogspot.com/2021/07/handy.html
LikeLike
I had a couple of ideas for the prompt but changed them after going down to the local bay for the sunrise this morning:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2021/07/11/handy/
LikeLike
Here’s my offering…..
https://hopsskipsandjumps.com/2021/07/11/handy/
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks so much for the mention, Debbie 🎉 Love the shot with the red chairs & tables 😃 I was making a few tweaks to my bike setup & thought the multi-tool was the perfect handy gadget; so here it is: https://jezbraithwaite.blog/2021/07/11/multi-tool-ows/
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re welcome. And yes, I liked all the red in that square – it was the seating I wanted to capture as much as the person
LikeLiked by 1 person
It’s what really draws the eye, & with them so spaced out, a real snapshot of the times!
LikeLike
You could almost imagine them chatting with each other, Debbie. More so with them facing in different directions. They say every picture tells a story!
My imagination is running wild today:
LikeLiked by 1 person
I can see them chatting away together now 🙂 Thanks for your imaginative insight, Tom
And thanks for your handy imagination in your own post too 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
My pleasure, Debbie. I like diving into my imagination! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
All getting handy with their phones….I’m off to search for something else in the archive
LikeLiked by 1 person
Handy with their Handys 🙂
Happy hunting, Sue –
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well, here’s the result of my hunting: https://suejudd.com/2021/07/11/handy/
LikeLiked by 1 person
A great find, Sue – a lovely shot
LikeLiked by 1 person
Pure chance, the feline just strolled up for a photo op!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
😊😊
LikeLike
And there I was thinking that my interpretation of “handy” was unique / uniquely German …
LikeLiked by 1 person
I thought you would enjoy this theme, Elke, I added in for you after the mobile one.
It’s a term for phone that has always stuck in my head as it’s so different to both US and UK English
LikeLiked by 1 person
There are jokes about it in German because it’s not the only term which Germans think are English and are not. Another favourite one is a fanny bag or bum bag which long ago used to be a “Wimmerl” (funny enough, just like that) which is now called a “body bag”. 😁
LikeLiked by 1 person
Of course, we have issues with the fanny bag. But body bag is worse still. I’m glad you told me about that one, or I’d be looking for dead bodies 😉
LikeLike