Friday, 25 March 2022

Days 2607 - 2613

Aka Monday 10th January - Sunday 16th January 2022

A quiet week this week, Monday morning had a beautiful red sky:


…the postman delivered this month’s Kyle Starks Stickers Club stickers:


…and some great comics (although I was very disappointed with the first issue of  'Monkey Meat', felt like a reheated 2000AD Future Shock):


…and I picked up this week’s New Comic Book Day gems (including the excellent ‘Falconspeare’):



…and the latest issue of ‘Uncut’:


…mostly because I was a little bored, nit much in the issue to interest me...and I got a clean sweep, 300 score in bowling…okay it was electronic bowling!,:


…but still a clean sweep…and after that exertion I went for a Medium Walk on Saturday and did 5.35km in 1 hour 1 minute and 35 seconds and burnt 515 calories:








…and I did this week’s G2 Crosswords:


…Monday’s crossword got the week off to a good, but standard start, as we had to cheat on a seventh of the clues (three out of 21). The little grey cells were fairy rested after the weekend but weren’t fully warmed up and missed a couple of easier ones, like for ‘carbon black’ we didn’t bother to check the intersecting letters and went for ‘coal’, if we had checked, we probably would have gotten the correct answer of ‘soot’. We did, however, learn that a ‘troglodyte’ is a ‘hermit (who lived in a cave?)…


…Tuesday’s grid went better, we only had to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two out of 23), but, again, we made a simple mistake of not checking the intersecting letters and for ‘sound navigation and ranging system’, we went with ‘radar’ when the answer was ‘sonar’! But we did learn that an ‘Acacia’ is a ‘spiny tree or shrub with small yellow or white flowers’…


…Wednesday’s grid dips a little as we had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 23), not bad, but not great. We were slightly let down by our geography knowledge, not knowing that ‘Damascus’ is the ‘Syrian capital’. But we did learn that ‘chez moi’ means ‘at my house’ and that ‘Black China tea’ is called ‘Pekoe’…


…Thursday’s grid maintains the level and we had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 25) again. Which was much better than we expected as our symptoms had come back and we weren’t feeling that great, which probably explains why we missed ‘throbs’ from ‘beats’, we were thinking of ‘beats’ as in overcoming, thrashing, victorious, etc., but we still managed a good performance – maybe the clues were easier today! And we did learn that ‘esurient’ means ‘ravenous’ and that a ‘Pergola’ is an ‘Arbour with climbing plants’…


…Friday’s grid goes a tad better as we didn’t have to cheat on any of the twenty-one clues! The little grey cells were on the top of their game today and sliced through the clues like a hot knife through butter…


…Saturday’s grid ends the week on a pretty sweet note as, although we found it a really hard grid to get to grips with and we thought we’d never great half the clues, we only had to cheat on a twelfth of them (two out of 24)! We only stumbled on not remembering that a ‘droplet’ can also be called a ‘globule’ and that Zagreb is the capital of ‘Croatia’…


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