Days 2991 to 2997

Aka Monday 30th January to Sunday 5th February 2023

I’m playing catch up, so this’ll be brief. It was a pretty quiet week, was in the office for the start of it, and there’s not much to say about that right now (we’re going through a restructure, but it’s early days), except that I started to develop a bit of a cough and cold. A did do a Covid test, but it was negative, so I assumed that it was first one off those winter bugs. And when I started working from home I did start to perk up a bit, enough that I when I woke up on Friday I thought I was well enough to go for a morning walk:

…which lasted for 49mins 48secs, took 4,511 steps, covered 2.46km and burnt 286 calories (although the app was being glitchy and didn’t record properly!) and the feeling of feeling unokay started as I was on the last half km or so, and over the day it developed into a horrible cold…or at least I hope it’s just a cold…and the second Covid Test was negative…and the cold got worse and on Saturday I felt so wiped out, throat so raw that I just wanted to sleep till I was better...anyway during the week I got my New Comic Book Day gems:

…and I finished Season Six of ‘Elementary’ and started and finished watching Season Seven:

…and it was a good ending to the series. Season Six dealt plenty of emotional blows and upsets and left our main characters doing extreme things and ending up in a new dynamic, which Season Seven delves into with glee, and ends up reuniting our core group in a new dynamic, tying up loose ends, but leaving things open. Open enough that we can imagine what Holmes and Watson are up too now and make our own stories. And I brought some 007 Lego to cheer myself up (although I haven’t made it yet):

…and I watched ‘The Menu’:

…which was an interesting, entertaining watch. It balances horror, thriller, societal critique and comedy all the while maintaining an air of low-level dread, so you’re never entirely sure what will happen next. I would defo recommend watching it.

…I also did this week’s Metro crosswords:

…and I did this week’s G2 Crossword:

…and Monday’s crossword gets the crossword week off to a solid start as we only had to cheat on 11.11% of the clues (two out of 18). Which was probably the best we could have done, we might of guessed ‘Tokyo’ from ‘world’s largest metropolitan area by population’, but we didn’t. And we totally dropped the ball on ‘these are not 18’ and we missed ‘woes’. But like I said, a solid start…

…and we almost got a clean sweep on Tuesday’s crossword, but we, for some reason, didn’t get ‘tall order’ from ‘big ask’. We got ‘tall’ and had the ‘r’ and ‘e’ from intersecting words, but couldn’t make the leap to ‘tall order’! So we had to cheat on 5.26% of the clues (one out of 19)…

…and Wednesday’s crossword goes in a similar vein to Tuesday’s. We only had to on 4.17% of the clues (one out of 24). Although, this time we didn’t get the answer ‘cos we didn’t pay attention in our French classes and didn’t know that ‘lieu’ is an ‘location in France’ or perhaps if the clue had been ‘place In France’ we would have gotten it from the phrase in lieu…

…Thursday's crossword went pretty, superbly, solidly very good, not a clean sweep, but we only had to cheat on 4.35% of the clues (one out of 23). And we couldn’t have done any better because we had no idea that a ‘baffle’ is a ‘flat plate used to control the flow of a fluid’, roll the rest of the week’s crosswords…

…and the tip-top excellence continues with Friday’s crossword as we only had to cheat on 4.00% of the clues (one out of 25). We were held up from getting a clean sweep by ‘Like Isaac’s son Esau?’ as we didn’t know that he was hairy aka ‘hirsute’. So close to perfection…but so far away…

…and we end the crossword week with only having to cheat on 4.17% of the clues (one out of 24) for Saturday’s crossword. Again, close to a clean sweep, close to perfection, but we stumbled with this clue ‘Australian grub’. We got caught up with grub meaning lava/baby insect and we didn’t consider any other meaning. If we had, we would have realised that grub can mean food and then we probably would have gotten ‘tucker’! But we live and learn. Roll on a new, fresh crossword week…