Aka Monday 1st March - Sunday 7th March 2021
A bit of a quiet week, working and “enjoying” lockdown, wondering why are there so many empty shelves in the big Sainsburys, like where is all the tin foil and fresh fruit & veg? Is it Brexit? The massive delays at the ports and fewer fruit/veg pickers? Maybe…probably…time will tell. And I hurt my knee so just walking about hurts ☹, but at least it’s a reason to laze!
I also spent too much time pondering some (probably the majority) of the media’s attitude to Harry and Meghan. As a non-Royalist I don’t normally care about any of the Royals, but the hypocrisy of the media, people like Piers Morgan and papers like The Sun, really grates. These are literally the people who have hounded all the Royals for decades, one to her death, reveled in their idiocies, used them to make money and are doing it again. This headline:
…is a prime example The Sun know that Harry and Meghan have no control over when the TV show is broadcast, it’s not their show, they don’t own the company that made it or the company that is going to broadcast it, but the media just assume that the public are idiots and will believe whatever they are told. And to many people do! It’s just frustrating.
On Saturday I went for a Long Walk (for 1 hour and 53 minutes, during which I covered 9.91km, burnt 957 calories and walked 12,617 steps):
…and read Mojo’s Oasis magazine, charting the second half of the band’s life and afterlife…
…and I watched ‘The Faculty’, a fun modern horror-movie, taking the best bits of teen comedies, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' and 'The Thing'…and got up to date with this blog (which I’m now way behind on!!!!!)
…and I did this week’s G2 Crossword:
…and Monday’s crossword gets the week off to fine start, as we only had to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two out of 23). The little grey cells are firing on pretty much all cylinders and we learnt that ‘prodigal’ means ‘spendthrift’ and that the ‘Aegean’ is the ‘sea between Greece and Turkey’. And we were a little surprised by 13 across ‘bionic man (Victor Stone)’, leaving us wondering (a) how many people know the superhero Cyborg and (b) how many know that this name is Victor Stone…
…Tuesday’s crossword throws a little spanner in the works, as we had to cheat on a sixth of the clues (four out of 23). I guess the little grey cells aren’t quite firing on all cylinders! Although I’m kinda please that we got ‘accent’ from ‘brogue’, as we spent ages thinking about shoes! And we learnt that ‘igneous’ means ‘solidified from molten volcanic material’, that a ‘cumulonimbus’ is a ‘towering vertical storm cloud’, that ‘Mahatma’ is a ‘Holy Brahmin sage’ and that ‘hawser’ is ‘thick nautical rope or cable’…
…the spanner continues to be in the works with Wednesday’s crossword, as we had to cheat on a fifth of the clues (five out of 25). The worst thing is that we kinda knew the answers, but dismissed them, like ‘pique’ for ‘stimulate curiosity’, which we thought had a ‘k’ in it, or ‘opus’ for musical work’. Or at worst we couldn’t work through the possibilities to the right answer, like for ‘floating structure like Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki’, we knew it was a form of boat or ship, but couldn’t get to ‘raft’, it was so frustrating!!!!!...
…and with Thursday’s crossword we’re back to the sunny uplands, as the little grey cells powered through the clues, like an atomic powered bowling ball scattering skittles/answers in its wake! We just had to cheat on one of the 21 clues, missing ‘cohere’ from ‘cling’…
…Friday’s crossword goes a tad worse, we had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 24), just a little stumble for the little grey cells. And we learnt that ‘thoroughbred horses’ are called ‘Arabs’ and that ‘Render’ is a ‘Stucco-like substance applied to masonry’…
…and the stumbling continues with Saturday’s crossword, as we had to cheat on a third of the clues. The little grey cells have been on a rollercoaster of a week and there was some sloppy thinking today. Like for ‘country steps for four couples’ we got to tied up in trying to think of specific square dance dances, instead of realising that the answer was ‘square dance’! Or forgetting phrases like ‘good egg’, for ‘marvellous chap’ or ‘by George’, for ‘I’m amazed’…
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