Day 2981 and 2982

Aka Friday 20th January and Saturday 21st January 2023

A quiet couple of days, Friday was spent working from home, with a quick lunchtime popping to the shops to do a food shop, to pick up this week’s New Comic Book Day gems:

…and the latest ’Lego Explorer’ magazine:

…which I got for the polar bear, just got to add a Dharma logo and I’ve got a ‘Lost’ Lego polar bear! Or maybe he can go with my Hoth Luke!

And when I got home my ’Elementary’ boxset had been delivered:

…so the rest of Friday and Saturday were spent wrapping up and escaping the cold, doing the Metro cryptic:

…and enjoying some snacks and Season Four of ’Elementary’…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which went rather well, the little grey cells munched through Friday’s clues with very little difficulty, we only had to cheat on 9.52% of the clues (two out of 21). The only hitches were us not knowing that a ‘demijohn’ is a ‘large bottle enclosed in wickerwork’, we thought it was a large bottle with a flat bottom and misreading the clue for ‘bubble bath’, ‘liquid added to hot water to make it foam’, we thought it was related to some kind of coffee drink with foamy milk. We feel a little dumb for not getting ‘bubble bath’… 

…and Saturday’s crossword ends the crossword week on a bit of a sour note. It was a pretty chewy grid today and we did struggle with it and it’s kinda outstanding that we only had to cheat on 17.39& of the clues (four out of 23)! Maybe the little grey cells were a little groggy from waking up early? Either way we learnt that the ‘Farc’ were ‘Marxist guerrillas fighting the Columbian government between 1964 and 2016’, that ‘Oviedo’ is the ‘capital of Asturias in north-west Spain’ and the ‘apse’ is the ‘part of a church where the alter is normally placed’…