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February 22, 2005
Crossword
Since starting my new job, I'm commuting up to London by train every day. My current novel is a bit slow, and I seem to always fancy doing the crossword. So I buy the Telegraph newspaper on the way to the station and have a go most days.
I can't make up my mind whether getting good at crosswords is useful, or a phenominal waste of time. It is a skill that can be learnt. I check my answers with yesterday's paper and try and understand them, and this improves my hit rate. But I'm getting good at something which is really pretty inconsequential.
The other side of the coin is that I'm keeping my brain really active, and I'm looking at words in very different ways. Today I have the word sack and I'm tring to work out whether it's something you drown cats in, the destroying of a town, being made redundant, or some anagram.
I think this weird mental gymnsatics will improve my lateral thinking skills, and this could help me in everyday life in unexpected ways.
It's also nice having a nearly completed grid on the train home and flashing it round the carriage :-)
Posted by se71 at February 22, 2005 10:45 AM
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