THINK blog Volume 2 Chapter 17

Regular readers of this blog will know that it is anything but regular. All the same I have been neglecting it lately because of reasons, and I hope that absence will have made the heart grow fonder.

If you live in a temperate zone in the northern hemisphere, this time of year is tough. It is not an accident that various forms of entertainment work at or near capacity, because bread won't take people's minds off how the weather is getting worse and the days are getting colder and there's still weeks of it getting worse before it even begins to get better. I recall a letter to a newspaper about public holidays, suggesting that the best approach would be spending the first half of the year in the UK and the second half in the US. Certainly Black Friday makes a lot more sense as the day after Thanksgiving when people have leisure to go shopping, rather than its incongruous status in the UK as, well, another working day at the tail end of the year when you don't want to go to a shop for anything more than a pint of milk for fear of falling over people fighting on the ground over a new television set or something.

Anyway there is no need to worry about any of this even slightly when you can lose yourself in Liga. At the time of writing, THINK is preparing for another round in the 8th level, being freshly promoted as Tier 9 champions. Link here.

Also the Brainbox Challenge has reached 70 editions, play the latest one here.

CELTIC CULTURE CORNER
Out on the road today I saw a Cornish flag sticker on a V90. Printed along the horizontal white stripe were two words: JAM FIRST.

This I took to be a reminder of the correct way to eat a cream tea if one is from Cornwall. For those who don't know, a cream tea is a pot of tea accompanied by two scones, butter, clotted cream and jam. Scones are a bit like what Americans call biscuits, i.e. nothing at all like cookies. So anyway the scone is buttered and then the question arises of whether to put the clotted cream on top of the jam or the other way around. This distinguishes two regions of what is known as the West Country, namely Cornwall and Devon, which is sometimes known as Devonshire. Anyway, no need for me to try and rewrite Poldark.