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Can I Have A Moan About Lockdown?
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Err perhaps not,I'm going to get my haircut tomorrow, my nails done on Thursday , the pub with my mates will happen sooner or later
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I've not had my hair cut for nearly a year. (One of the few advantages of chemotherapy is that it cuts down on barbers' bills!).
I've never had my nails 'done' and I doubt that I ever will.
I'm really missing Sunday evening crossword sessions with a couple of mates in the pub though but Suffolk is the Tier 2 county that's closest to being in Tier 1, so we might be able to get back together fairly soon.
I've never had my nails 'done' and I doubt that I ever will.
I'm really missing Sunday evening crossword sessions with a couple of mates in the pub though but Suffolk is the Tier 2 county that's closest to being in Tier 1, so we might be able to get back together fairly soon.
My last chemo session was back in mid-September, Bobbi, but the side effects can last quite a while, especially the tiredness. About a month ago ago I slept for 73½ hours straight through (apart from getting up to feed the cats a couple of times). The following week I had a couple of sleeps which were in excess of 20 hours too. I'm just about over the worst of it now though and my hair is beginning to grow back a bit too. I might even get my eyebrows and eyelashes back soon!
My mates and I have already worked out a strategy for doing some crosswords together, where we have three separate copies of each crossword, so that we don't all have to lean closely together to see the same one. (I'm not quite sure how it will work though, as we're all very independent and will probably end up filling in three completely different answers for 1 across). All we need now is a pub that's open on a Sunday evening, without any crowds and with no restriction on the number of households that can get together in a group. I suppose that we'll get there eventually but I must admit to a certain amount of impatience creeping in!
My mates and I have already worked out a strategy for doing some crosswords together, where we have three separate copies of each crossword, so that we don't all have to lean closely together to see the same one. (I'm not quite sure how it will work though, as we're all very independent and will probably end up filling in three completely different answers for 1 across). All we need now is a pub that's open on a Sunday evening, without any crowds and with no restriction on the number of households that can get together in a group. I suppose that we'll get there eventually but I must admit to a certain amount of impatience creeping in!
Hi Chris. What crosswords do you and your friends usually do? I remember many many years ago after my father died, sitting one Saturday outside a café with my brother (whom I rarely saw, as he lived up in Scotland) drinking lots of coffee and each of us with a copy of The Times and working our way through the jumbo cryptic. Been doing it ever since (32 years) - just the right level of difficulty for me, and I chip away at it during the week. Seems to have got a bit harder the last several weeks.
Anne: I should have had my 7th radiotherapy session (out of 37) today but it was cancelled due to IT problems, so I've now got an additional appointment on Saturday. (I normally have to attend every weekday). It's no real problem except that the one big side effect of the treatment is fatigue so, just as I'm recovering from being exhausted through the chemo treatment, I've now got something else to tire me out! Oh well, it's a good excuse for being a lazy so-and-so, not that I've ever needed much of an excuse anyway ;-)
Brainiac: My mates and I are far too thick to do cryptic crosswords! We usually do the Saturday Times 2 Jumbo crossword, plus the ordinary Times 2 crossword out of the same paper. Then, if time allows, we might try another non-cryptic crossword that one of us has found and brought to the pub. (The crosswords I occasionally set myself, and post here on AB, are loosely based upon the Times 2 Jumbo crosswords, in that they use a 23 by 23 grid, with non-cryptic clues that might include slang or colloquial terms).
Brainiac: My mates and I are far too thick to do cryptic crosswords! We usually do the Saturday Times 2 Jumbo crossword, plus the ordinary Times 2 crossword out of the same paper. Then, if time allows, we might try another non-cryptic crossword that one of us has found and brought to the pub. (The crosswords I occasionally set myself, and post here on AB, are loosely based upon the Times 2 Jumbo crosswords, in that they use a 23 by 23 grid, with non-cryptic clues that might include slang or colloquial terms).
Yup! That just about sums it up, Anne ;-)
So knackered, in fact, that I seem to have completely forgotten about one week's treatment above. It should have been my 12th session today, not my 7th! So I'm nearly a third of the way through it now anyway.
Thanks for your good wishes. I hope that you're keeping well too.
So knackered, in fact, that I seem to have completely forgotten about one week's treatment above. It should have been my 12th session today, not my 7th! So I'm nearly a third of the way through it now anyway.
Thanks for your good wishes. I hope that you're keeping well too.
I look at loads of the questions about cryptic crosswords here on AB, Brainiac, and try to to work out what's going on. Even if someone's provided the correct answer to a clue, I usually can't parse it!
I have found that people who're really good at cryptic crosswords don't always find non-cryptic ones as easy as they think they might be though. Certainly some 'cryptic experts' here have reported that they've found some of the non-cryptic puzzles I've set quite tricky (which, of course, is exactly what I've hoped for!)
I have found that people who're really good at cryptic crosswords don't always find non-cryptic ones as easy as they think they might be though. Certainly some 'cryptic experts' here have reported that they've found some of the non-cryptic puzzles I've set quite tricky (which, of course, is exactly what I've hoped for!)
Move to Llanymynech, Fraser. Then you can choose between English laws and Welsh ones, so you've got a much better chance of finding a pub open ;-)
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