Thursday, 13 April 2023

Days 3019 - 3025

Aka Monday 27th February - Sunday 5th March 2023

Still catching up, so this’ll be brief. I spent the first half of the week in the office and Thursday and Friday working from home. Nothing much to say about work, except that I left my power lead in the office and had to go in as my work laptop doesn’t hold a change! But WFHing did mean that I could get in a couple of Morning Walks in. Here are pics from the Thursday’s Morning Walk:












…which covered 4.00km, in 48min 17secs. Which took 5,260 steps and burnt 378 calories. And these are Friday’s pics (including the dreaded stairs and bridge!!!):














…which covered 4.07km, in 48min 14secs. Which took 5,299 steps and burnt 388 calories. Although I think that I may not have wrapped up warm enough as on Friday afternoon I developed another cold, although by Sunday it started relenting and lessen…although this did allow me the time to listen to these SUSS records, which the postman delivered:



…and they just beautifully encapsulate that ‘bootgaze’ sound. Music that calls to mind the landscapes from Western flicks, the deserts of Mexico, Texas, California, Monument Valley. Just perfect music to relax to, to get woozy to, to drift away on musical bliss, to soothe the mind. I also got plenty of reading material:


…which I haven’t read yet, but they do look intriguing (and yes, this is yet another Rolling Stones special, of which I have several, but I can’t help myself! And it does look like they’ve taken a slightly different approach), including this week’s comic gems:




…I also picked up the ‘Yellowstone’ Seasons One and Two boxset:


…of which I’ve heard nothing but good things about, plus I like the other films and TV shows I’ve seen from ‘Yellowstone’ creator Taylor Sheridan (although I’ve got a ton of other stuff to watch as well!) and I picked up two lottery wins (albeit v minor ones):




…and I did this week’s G2 Crosswords:


…and the crossword week gets of to another damn solid start, as we only had to cheat on 4.55% of the clues (also know as one out of 22). The little grey cells rested themselves over the weekend and are on fighting form. And we learnt that ‘Oporto’ is a ‘City on the Douro River’…


…and we take a terrible tumble with Tuesday’s crossword. We had to cheat on 15.38% of the clues (aka four out of 26). Not a good performance, we just couldn’t get a proper grip of the clues and missed some v obvious ones. Like ‘wrongdoer’ from ‘sinner’. But we re-learnt that ‘etymology’ is the ‘study of the origin of words’ and learnt that an ‘ague’ is a ‘shivering fit’…


…and things get a bit back on track with Wednesday’s crossword, as we only had to cheat on 8.33% of the clues (two out of 24). Still not sure that ‘suffer mental stress’ is a great clue for ‘agonise’, as it really directs you to a medical condition (but then again who said that the clues have to be straight forward!)…


…and things remain a bit back on track with Thursday’s crossword, as we only had to cheat on 8.33% of the clues (two out of 24). And we learnt that ‘Cordoba’ is the ‘Spanish spelling of an ancient city on the Guadalquivir’ and that the ‘Bossa Nova’ is a ‘Brazilian dance (we thought it was only a rhythm!). Hopefully the rest of the crossword week continues to go as smoothly as the last couple of days…


…and we’re back off track with Friday’s crossword as we had to cheat on 14.29% of the clues (three out of 21). It was a tough grid and we made a couple of errors like plumping for ‘economy’ as the answer to ‘concerned with money and trade’, if we’d counted the letters we would have realised that we were one letter short and might have gotten the right answer of ‘economic’, and this is a better outcome than we expected. And we learnt that ‘Nehru’ was the ‘first Prime Minister of India, d.1964’…


…and Saturday’s crossword ends the crossword week on a meh note, as we had to cheat on 13.04% of the clues (three out of 23). Not a great end to the week, although I did have a bit of a cold and I guess that knackered the little grey cells a tad. ‘Cos we should have gotten ‘heel’ from ‘command given to a dog’ and ‘bolero’ from ‘Spanish dance’, but we did learn that a ‘babushka’ is a ‘Russian woman of a certain age’. Hopefully we’ll feel better, and do better, next week…

…and I did the Metro’s cryptic crossword (which I’m slowly starting to get to grips with):








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