Aka Monday 19th October - Sunday 25th October 2020
Another quiet week this week, it’s almost like we’re living during a pandemic and the old entertains, like the cosyness and haphazardness of going down the pub, have dramatically changed, working from home and then relaxing/marking time…the clocks went back an hour this Sunday and it was nice to get an extra hour in bed…and as I’ve about a month and half behind (again) I’ll sum up this this week very quickly.
This week I picked up this month’s Mojo, mostly out of habit and for the CD (which was alright, but I already had the standout track ‘Svefn-g-englar’, by Sigur Ros) to see what John Lydon has to say (in a nutshell he hasn’t got much new to say, except for how his relationship with his wife has grown).
…and I got a few comics:
…my copy of the ‘Menswear’ Boxset arrived…and some of the tracks stand the test of time, and the never-before-released-in-the-UK second album is a an interesting change of musically direction, more soft rockish, more countryified (with a couple of good tracks on it) most of the boxset sounds very ‘90’s Britpop, very disposable/unrememberable (although one sounds suspiciously like the theme tune from ‘Friends’):
…I also went for a Long Walk on Saturday (in reverse order for some reason):
…and I did this week’s G2 Crosswords:
…and Monday’s crossword goes almost perfectly, the little grey cells were firing on all cylinders and we only had to cheat on one of the 24 clues – learning that the capital of ‘Namibia’ is Windhoek. Although there is a slight controversy, for ‘firmly embedded’ we went for ‘dead-set’, but the answer was ‘deep-set’, but we reckon that as the “conflicting letters” aren’t part of other answers we can accept ‘dead-set’, so we’re awaiting the umpire’s decision…
…Tuesday’s crossword went just as well, we only had to cheat on one of the 24 clues (and no controversial decisions either!) The little grey cells just scythed through the clues in mere minutes, except for ‘bend back’, which we learnt is ‘recurve’…
…we have a slight wobble with Wednesday’s crossword, we had to cheat on a seventh of the clues (three out of 21 – technical 2.5 as we got the butterfly part of ‘butterfly kiss’). A little annoyed that we didn’t get ‘downsize’ from ‘shed staff’, but we did learn that ‘eyelash flirting’ is called a ‘butterfly kiss’ and that ‘zabaglione’ is an ‘Italian dessert from whipped egg yolks, sugar and Marsala’, sounds yummy…
…the wobble continues with Thursday’s crossword, again we had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 23). Maybe the little grey cells are feeling fatigued and need a little extra sleep? But we did learn that ‘agar’ is a ‘food thickener’ (or maybe re-learnt this?), that ‘inveterate’ is a synonym for ‘habitual’ and that a ‘Trencherman’ is a ‘Gourmand’…
…and we come close to stacking it with Friday’s crossword. The little grey cells couldn’t get to grip with this grid, and we had to cheat on a third of the clues. The ones we got, we got easily, but the ones we didn’t we just couldn’t work out. Like 1 across ‘crawlers’, the answer is ‘sycophants’, which seems obvious in hindsight, but we spent ages thinking of different words for creepy-crawlies! But we did learn that ‘Shags’ are ‘seabirds of the cormorant family’, that a ‘brace’ is a ‘pair’, that the ‘Adriatic’ is the ‘sea facing Venice’, that a ‘Tigon’ is a ‘big cat hybrid’ and that the ‘6 January celebration of the Three Wise Men’s visit to the baby Jesus’ is called ‘Epiphany’…
…and Saturday’s crossword ends the week on a slightly bum note as we had to cheat on a sixth of the clues (four out of 23). Which better than I thought we’d do when we started the grid. I guess the little grey cells are a bit drained and need an extra hour in bed? But we did learn that Oloroso is a type of ‘sherry’ and that an American aircraft carrier is informally called a ‘flat-top’, which kinda makes sense…
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