Aka Monday 25th
November 2019 – Aka Sunday 1st December 2019
…this week was,
again, a bit of a quiet week, except for Friday night, which was a works night
out, which did get a bit drunken and noisy and fun…and with a minimal hangover
the next day, which was nice…
…I also finished
reading Stewart Lee’s ‘March of the Lemmings’, which collects Stewart’s
Observer columns, about Brexit, from 2016 to 2019 and a transcript of his live
show ‘Content Provider’. For me the main draw for getting this book it the
footnotes Stewart writes, where he explains where bits and parts of his columns
and show came from or expands on the point of the joke/text or just a general anecdote
spurred by part of the article/show. And they add extra laughs (or thoughts) to the
ones already there. 10/10.
…and I got these New
Comic Book Day gems:
…and ‘The Drop & The List’ arrived, a collection of two novellas set in the Slough House universe,
arrived…now I just have to finish reading ‘Frozen Hell’ so that I can get to,
or at least read ‘The List’ as the ‘The Drop’ is set later on in the series of
Slough House books…
…and I read
‘Faithless’ #1 - #6, which was advertised as an erotic satanic thriller, and it
certainly ticks the erotic and satanic boxes, it feels very much like the old
satanic films, like Rosemary’s Baby, and it is certainly 18 rated, but it also
feels like not much happens over the six issues and I’m not sure if I’ll be
back for the next miniseries (but maybe for the TPB)…
…and I did this
week’s G2 Crosswords:
…and Monday’s crossword gets the week off to a pretty okay
start, with only needing to have to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out
of 25). The little grey cells are still making a good go of it, but did miss a
couple of easy ones – ‘eons’ and ‘steaming’ (we went with ‘eras’ and
‘steaming’), but I did learn that ‘hubble-bubble’ can refer to a ‘hookah’…
…Tuesday’s crossword went a tad better…I only had to cheat
on one of the 21 clues – ‘disdainful (12)’ and for some reason me and my little
grey cells couldn’t figure that that meant ‘supercilious’, we must have been too
tired from figuring out the rest of the
grid, some of the clues did take a little chewing over to get the right answer
from them…
…Wednesday’s crossword was a bit more tricky and took a lot
more chewing over by the little grey cells and even after that I had to cheat
on a sixth of the clues (four out of 24). And some of them, like ‘Don Quixote
author’ = ‘Cervantes’ and ‘less than average tidal rises and falls’ = ‘neaps’,
I had no chance of getting and I still think that 21a, like other similar
clues, should have had a “(slang)” in the clue as ‘peanuts’ is a slang term for
‘a derisory amount of money’, if it had said “(slang)” I might not have gone
for ‘pitance’ (no sour grapes here m’lord! And they’re not compounded by me
misspelling ‘pittance’!)…
…but Thursday’s crossword restores the balance a little as I
only had to cheat a ninth of the clues (two out of 18). Although I really
should have gotten both of them, ‘avid’ from ‘eagerly desirous’ and ‘offer’
from ‘volunteer – proposal’, but at least the little grey cells have gotten
things back on track…
…things dip back down a tad with Fridays’ crossword as I had
to cheat on a fifth of the clues (four out of 19). I think it was just a matter
of being a tad tired and not make that final leap to the answer, like with 15d
‘trill (6)’ I got stuck on the word ‘shrill’ and couldn’t think of anything
else, let alone the right answer ‘warble’, which should have been easy to get
after a little chewing over by the little grey cells, ,at least I learnt that
‘Handel’ was the ‘Water Music composer, d.1759’…
…and Saturday’s
crossword brings the week to a satisfactory close, as I had to cheat on
an eighth of the clues (three out of 24) – although I’d argue that ‘electronic
sound reproduction’ is a bit of a misleading clues for ‘audio’, but then again,
I guess that if all the clues were straight ahead it wouldn’t be much of a
challenge to complete a grid! And I
learnt that ‘hitherto’ also means ‘formerly’ and re-learnt that a ‘toreador’ is
a type of ‘bullfighter’ (and the worst thing is that I had all the letters,
because it came up on a previous crossword, but I just couldn’t recall what the
first letter was!!!)…
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