Lockdown II is still in force, so there’s still not much going on and the highlight of the week is food shopping, which might explain why a brought a poker chip set and Ian Dury Best of:
…just sheer lockdown craziness, it’s half price, it’s a bargain, so I might as well get it, like I only know two Ian Dury songs! I also got the latest ‘Empire’, which has a nice interviews/articles on ‘Die Hard 2’, Shane Black movies, Sean Connery, George Clooney and 'WandaVision':
…I also got a load of stuff through the post, some comics:
…with ‘Kaijumax’ Season 5 #5 telling a very touching story through the medium of Pokémon characters (and the usual kaiju) (I haven’t read ‘Maids’ yet, except for the four issues that Katie Skelly put out, which I think is the first few chapters of the hard cover, which did a great job of whetting the appetite for the hard cover, or ’American Vampire 1976’ #2, as it’s a miniseries, so I’m going to wait to have all the issues, so I can read the entire story in one go). I also got a copy of RZA’s score for ‘Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai’ and it’s not bad on first listen, but I’m not sure that it completely works on it’s own, separate from the film’s visuals:
…I also received two art prints/posters:
…the first is an alternative poster by NEEDLE Design for ‘The Night of the Hunter’ poster and the second is Gavin Mitchell’s ‘Columbo’ print (and sticker), both are beautiful pieces of work. Now I just have to find an open framers! I also got this:
…my ‘Whitey’ boxset, which collects his first seven albums (with a book of lyrics and flyers). I first got into ‘Whitey’ in the early 2000’s and he had a great punky discoy sound, but then I kinda lost touch with his releases (in part I think because of the loss of music papers and magazines, reducing the chances of finding out when underground/non-mainstream music was being released), but have been slowly catching up and now the boxset has me covered. Now I just need to find a day or two that I can spend listening to all the albums 😊. And on Saturday I went for a Long Walk:
…and I did this week’s G2 Crosswords:
…and Monday’s crossword gets the week off to a stumbling start, as we had to cheat on a sixth of the clues (four out of 24). The little grey cells just had a bit of a struggle getting into the clues, but we did manage to get all the answers we actually knew, with a little bit of help from our childhood, the only reason we got ‘action’ from ‘battle’ is the old comic Battle Action Force, a staple of my ‘80’s childhood. And we learnt that a ‘potentate’ is an ‘autocratic ruler’, ‘redolent’ means ‘suggestive’, that ‘calico’ is a ‘kind of cotton cloth’ and that a ‘shoe’ is a ‘part of a drum brake’…
…things really picked up with Tuesday’s crossword, we took our time with this grid and it really paid off as we only had to cheat on one of the 23 clues. Cue Wayne’s World guitar shredding! We only got stuck on ‘musician’, we thought of a lot of synonyms and instruments, but couldn’t think of ‘piper’…
…things still go well with Wednesday’s grid, we only had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 25). 4 across ‘lumberjack’ kinda got the little grey cells stuck on Monty Python’s lumberjack sketch, and that’s tot’s obv’s why we didn’t get ‘logger’ from ‘lumberjack’, ‘snarl’ from ‘entangle’ and ‘frisky’ from ‘frolicsome’…
…things take a tumble with Thursday’s crossword as we had to cheat on a fifth of the clues (five out of 24). We just couldn’t get a handle on the grid and at time we just give up and clicked on the revel button. And I’m not sure that ‘swoop (as in an attack)’ is a good clue for pounce’, but we did learn that an ‘Inch’ is a ‘small Scottish island’ and that ‘Littoral’ means ‘relating to a shore’…
…and we’re back on top with Friday’s crossword, only having to cheat on an eleventh of the clues (2 out of 22).The little grey cells knocked it out of the park, only stumbling on not getting ‘freight’ from ‘goods in transport’ and not knowing that ‘Malawi’ was a ‘South-east African country, formerly Nyasaland’…
…and Saturday’s crossword ends the week on an okay note, as we only had to cheat on nearly a seventh of the clues (four out of 26). A couple we should have gotten – ‘writ large’ from ‘made more obvious or prominent’ and ‘olfactory’ from ‘relating to the sense of smell’, but we did learn that ‘canard’ means ‘unfounded rumour’ and that a ‘rill’ is a ‘small stream’…a pretty solid week, all in all…
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