Aka Monday 2nd - Sunday 8th November 2020
A very quiet week this week, for two main reasons. You would have thought that I would have used this down time to catch up with this blog, but I didn't, so it'll be a short one (again). The first reason is that I had really bad toothache, really bad, it felt so bad, like the filling in that tooth had turned into molten metal. But I did get a dentist appointment on Thursday, by which time the pain had subsided by like 90 - 95% and my dentist thinks the pain was caused by sinus problems. I was just glad that the pain had gone! The second reason is that the second national English Lockdown started on Thursday and basically everywhere, except food shops, was closed down. Although mail order stuff is still working, and I got this from Forbidden Planet:
…which I haven’t read, as I’m waiting to get all the issues and read it in one big go. I also got this month’s stickers from the Kyle Starks Stickers Club:
…the second half of the Doom Patrol and they look beautiful.
…and I watched ‘V for Vendetta’, which I do every Bonfire/Guy Fawkes Night, although the comic is much better and deeper than the film, and I watched Sara Pascoe’s ‘Out of Her Mind’, a really good blend of humour and science (the science of why humans do and act how they do)…and on Friday evening I treated myself to fancy cheese rolls (the cheese is fancy, not the rolls) and a cocktail:
…and then went on a Long Walk on Saturday morning:
…and afterwards I played a few rounds of the My Little Pony Rainbow Magic Game with my nephew:
...which is pretty unique in that it focus on cooperation rather than competion…and I did this week’s G2 Crosswords:
…and Monday’s crossword gets this Guy Fawkes week off to a good start as we only had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 24). Which was a bit of a surprise as we had massive toothache and couldn’t concentrate on much. Maybe the work of the little grey cells distracted the pain receptors. And we learnt that a ‘Teal’ is a ‘freshwater duck’, that ‘outargue’ is one word, not two, and that a ‘dhow’ is a ‘lateen-rigged Arab sailing vessel’…
…Tuesday’s crossword is feeling the effects of the toothache, as we had to cheat on a sixth of the
that we missed the obvious answer of ‘Pete’! And we learnt that ‘pious’ can mean ‘God-fearing’ (we thought it just meant very religious and devout) and the ‘Serengeti’ is a ‘national park in northern Tanzania’…
…Wednesday’s crossword went really well, coinciding with my toothache dying down. We only had to cheat on one of the 25 clues – we forgot that a ‘rain cloud is a ‘nimbus’. We did get stuck on ‘Cathedral city of North Rhine Westphalia, seat of the Krupp industrial dynasty’, but, once we had the intersecting letters, somewhere in the back of my mind we were able to drag up the right answer of ‘Essen’. Still not sure where I’ve heard of ‘Essen’ before. And thanks to the MC5 and their song Ramblin’ Rose, we got the answer to ‘kind of rose’ = ‘Rambler’…
…and Thursday’s crossword goes almost as well, we only had to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two of the 24), missing out on getting ‘exponent’ from ‘someone who interprets or explains’ and ‘sermon’ from ‘homily’ (which we misread as homely!). The toothache is practically gone (it might have been caused by blocked sinuses) and the little grey cells are knocking the answers out of the park…
…Friday’s crossword goes practically perfectly, we only had to cheat on one of the 22 clues. The little grey cells were knocking it out of the park. With the toothache practically gone the little grey cells are free to do what they do best. And to learn that ‘patrician’ is a synonym for ‘aristocratic’…
…and Saturday’s crossword ends Guy Fawkes week on a pretty okay note, we had to cheat on a ninth of the clues (three out of 26). A late night last night left the little grey cells a little tired and we missed a couple of clues we should have got, but we did learn that a ‘flare path’ are ‘runway lights to guide a pilot when landing” and a “1942 Terence Rattigan play”. Not a bad week…
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