Day 789

Aka Saturday 30^th March 2019

No Long Walk today as my feet and knees and claves are aching too much…hopefully back to it tomorrow…

…but I did start, complete and submit an application for two Policy Advisor posts in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy…

…and some of this week’s New Comic Book Day comics arrived:

…and I listened to ‘Everywhere At The End Of Time: Stage 4’ and half of ‘Stage 5’ by The Caretaker…only three or four tracks now per CD, instead of the ten or more on Stages 1 -3, perhaps this is too represent the merging of memories and the worsening effects on the mind and memories…the tracks are much more electronic and distorted and echoey…but still retain their hypnotic, almost trance like effect…

…and I read ‘East Of West’ #39, #40 and #41:

…in which armies march, plotters put the end stages of their plots into action and Death (and his son) meet up and clash with the other three horsemen. I got a real sense of people being driven by events and people driving events (or at least thinking that they are driving events) and of things building to a climax in  I got a real sense of people being driven by events and people driving events (or at least thinking that they are driving events) and of things building to a climax in these three issues (written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Nick Dragotta) there is plenty of philosophy, contemplation and action, all beautifully illustrated, as the power players of the ‘East Of West’ world start to front up to each other. 7/10.

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which ends the week on a pretty good high note as I only had to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two out of 24), would have been a clean sweep too if I’d known that Riga is the capita of ‘Latvia’ and had remembered the word ‘dollop’. Aside from that the little grey cells were firing on all cylinders, but will that continue for next week’s crosswords???

…and I had a go at an old Evening Standard cryptic crossword, and it was a right struggle and if I didn’t have the ability to check my answers online I never would have been able to complete it and I still don’t understand how some of the answers relate to the clues! But I think it has one of my favourite clues for ‘pinch’ – ‘steal a quantity of salt’ (although I did put 'pinch' in the across boxes and not the down boxes, which did confuse me for a few minutes!):