{"id":13179,"date":"2019-04-16T11:14:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T10:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=13179"},"modified":"2019-04-16T11:14:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T10:14:02","slug":"%ef%bb%bftake-a-tech-break-its-national-scrabble-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2019\/04\/%ef%bb%bftake-a-tech-break-its-national-scrabble-day\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffTake a Tech Break \u2013 It\u2019s National Scrabble Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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National Scrabble Day – Speedy Reg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cast your mind back, if you\u2019re old enough, to those days\nwhen we didn\u2019t have mobile phones, PlayStations or Netflix. What on earth did\nwe do with our time? It\u2019s hard to imagine now. The highlight of the week would\nbe watching our favourite TV shows. Perhaps it was Taggart or That\u2019s Life.\nYou\u2019d all have to gather around the telly at just the right time, and rush to\nthe toilet or to put the kettle on in the advert break as there was no way to\npause it. These days we\u2019re spoilt for entertainment. There\u2019s just so many\ndifferent things to do, everyone has their own favourites and so everyone tends\nto be on their own, in their own little world of fun. While you\u2019re watching a\nbox set on Netflix, the kids are shooting zombies and your other half is hooked\non Facebook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it\u2019s pretty fantastic in some ways, wouldn\u2019t it be\nnice to go back to those days for a little while, the days when families\nactually spent time together? Talking, going for a walk in the woods, playing\nboard games? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well today is National Scrabble Day and what better way to\nget together and have some fun than with a game of Scrabble? Do your kids even\nknow what Scrabble is? Why not get a set, ban mobile phones from the room and\nget competitive?  Scrabble is certainly\neducational. Teach the kids some real words when all they do is write in text\nspeak abbreviations. It\u2019s also strangely addictive. They may turn their noses\nup at the idea, but once they get into it, this could become a regular activity\nfor you all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrabble was invented back in 1938. Since then the game has\nsold over 150 million sets! Half of British homes have a Scrabble set in them,\nso hunt yours out for National Scrabble Day, don\u2019t let it linger in the loft,\nget playing! Don\u2019t forget to have a dictionary at hand though, or you\u2019ll end up\nhaving arguments over whether or not a particular word actually exists! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The perfect plate if you love board games <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you start playing board games again, you\u2019ll soon realise how much fun they really were. You may want to celebrate the joy of the humble board game when you\u2019re next choosing your new private plate, so how about GAM 3S<\/a>? That plate is available on our website right now. You could also go for GAM 33R<\/a> which would be great if you love board games, but if you still think your Xbox wins out over a game of Scrabble, well it works well for you too! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cast your mind back, if you\u2019re old enough, to those days when we didn\u2019t have mobile phones, PlayStations or Netflix. What on earth did we do with our time? It\u2019s hard to imagine now. The highlight of the week would be watching our favourite TV shows. Perhaps it was Taggart or That\u2019s Life. You\u2019d all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1600,1601],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13181,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions\/13181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}