Aka Monday 6th
January 2020 - Thursday 9th January 2020
A quiet few days,
going to work, training one of our new staff (although there isn’t that much
training to do, she’s picked it up very quickly and has fitted in nicely with
the rest of the team, it’s almost like she’s been here for ages and not just a
few weeks), going home, watching some episodes of ‘Midsomer Murders’,
exercising, doing the G2 Crossword, cooking supper and tomorrow’s lunch, going
to bed, not sleeping well and then getting back up to start it all over again.
Partly because it’s the
New Year and things are settling down to normal, it’s kinda like everyone is
recovering from a psychic hangover. And partly because I’ve started the New
Year with a commitment to pay off one of my credit cards by the end of the year
and to be generally more fiscally responsible (although I did picked up the
latest Lego Star Wars magazine and go to the cinema to see ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’, which has got some great scenes and some awful scenes, which
seem to have been written by someone who has never watched, read or heard about
anything relating to Star Wars. A very odd film)…
…and I did pick up these
New Comic Book Day gems:
…and I did do the G2
Crossword:
…Monday’s crossword got the week off to a pretty storming
start. I only had to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two out of 23) and the
answers just tumbled out of the little grey cells, like one of the exploding
fizzy drink/Mentos combinations. And I learnt that a ‘reach’ is the ‘stretch of
a river between bends’…
…and the little grey cells were still killing it with
Tuesday’s crossword, we just had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out
of 25). Just popping out answers upon answers. And I learnt that ‘Doge’ was the
‘former chief magistrate of Venice’, that ‘nests’ are ‘cosy secluded retreats’
and that ‘skew’ means to ‘place obliquely’…
…Wednesday’s crossword also proved no match to the little
grey cells, or at least 90.48% of the clues (aka 19 out of 21), with them just
stumped by two of the clues. But I’m still not sure about ‘strut’ meaning ‘move
stiffly’. Can the little grey cells keep this performance up all week…
…looks like the little grey cells might be flagging a
little, as we had to cheat on a sixth of the clues (four out of 24) for
Thursday’s crossword. And the rest of the grid was a bit of a ‘mare to get
through, but it did mean that I learnt that ‘Lhasa’ is ‘Tibet’s forbidden
city’, that the ‘ammeter’ is a ‘device that measures the flow of electrical
current’, that the ‘Fulmar’ is a ‘heavy short-tailed polar bird’ and that
‘Myanmar’ is a ‘country on the Bay of Bengal’…
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