Saturday, 15 May 2021

Days 2302 - 2308

Aka Monday 8th March - Sunday 14th March 2021

I’m back catching up with this blog, so this’ll be another brief one…and Lockdown III continues, but we hit the first of the Government’s Roadmap milestones – the schools are reopened, we can meet one other person/household outdoors, indoor care home visits resumed, along with funerals and weddings…and alongside these milestones I did some supersubbing a work...


...finished the set by reading the first of Mojo’s Oasis magazine series/two-parter, and it brought back a lot of happy memories of the music and the times…and the postman delivered my copies of ‘Write It In Blood’, ‘Proctor Valley Road’ #1 and ‘American Vampire 1976#6:



…and ‘Keb Darge Presents Atomic Rhythm!’, a nice collection of Rockabilly/early rock ‘n’ roll songs, which I enjoyed while resting my knee, which was a bit tricky as most of the songs urge you cut a rug! (plus the bum knee meant no Long Walk this week)…


…on a happier note the fallout from the Harry & Meghan has had a positive effect and one of the nation’s biggest trolls was defenestrated:






…I also read Mojo’s history of The Rolling Stones:



…there isn’t anything particularly new in them, but it’s a great write-up of the Stones and their music. I also read Jez Conolly interesting analysis of ‘The Thing’…


…and I found this great picture of a tower in Killala, County Mayo:

 


…and I did this week’s G2 Crossword:


…and Monday’s crossword gets the week off to a near-perfect start, as we only had to cheat on one of the 19 clues. We didn’t know that ‘kohlrabi’ is a ‘variety of cabbage with edible leaves and turnip-like stem’, but for the rest of the clues the little grey cells just powered through them, knocking them out of the park…


…and the excellence continues with Tuesday’s crossword, as we only had to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two out of 24). Learning that a ‘collage’ is not just an art style, but a ‘collection of diverse things’ and that the ‘bones of the ankle and foot’ are called ‘tarsi’. We did especially like 24 across ‘wise partner’, we spent ages thinking about the Three Kings, King Solomon and other wise people, when looking at the intersecting letters it suddenly came to us ‘Eric Morecambe’! A nice clue that seemed complicated, but is really straight-forward…


…Wednesday’s crossword doesn’t go quite as well, we had to cheat on a sixth of the clues (four out of 23). The little grey cells were fine with the majority of the clues, but three of those four, we just didn’t know (we should have gotten ‘swish’ from ‘elegant and fashionable’), so we learnt that ‘coney’ means ‘rabbit’, that ‘Ararat’ is the ‘mountain peak where Noah’s ark landed’ and that ‘in vacuo’ means ‘without reference to anything else (in Latin)’…


…things go terribly terrific with Thursday’s crossword, the little grey cells were mighty powerful, chomping through the clues and we only had to cheat on a twelfth of them (two out of 25). We should have gotten ‘writhe’ from ‘twist and turn’, but we did learn that ‘touche’ means ‘that hit home!’, although we really should have been able to guess that, so a bad good performance I guess…


…Friday’s crossword also went well, again we only had to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two out of 24). The little grey cells are on sparkling form and we learnt that a ‘Victoria plum’ is a ‘stoned fruit’, we got the plum part but couldn’t get/didn’t know the Victoria part…


…and Saturday’s crossword ends the week on a sour note as we had to cheat on over a quarter of the clues (six out of 22). Not a good performance in any way, shape or measure! But we did learn that ‘abnegate’ means to ‘renounce’, that ‘ersatz’ means ‘imitation’ and that ‘serpentine’ means ‘sinuous’. And we re-learnt that a ‘Dacha’ is a ‘Russian holiday home’, I always forget this one, but always remember that it has come up before, very frustrating…

 

 

 

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