15th August, 2025: the Republic of the Congo.
I’m on drugs.
Or medications, I should say.
Including one called Mounjaro: it’s useful for controlling type two diabetes, and as a way of controlling my weight.
So … ?
I noticed this BBC News piece float past, this morning: telling us Eli Lilly, the drug’s makers, ar planning on putting the price up.
As far as I can tell, that won’t affect its cost to the National Health Service, nor to those of us who get it free on the NHS.
It will go up for those who’ve had the drug prescribed privately.
Will that affect the drug’s availability for NHS patients?
I don’t know.
But having switched medications, before, because of a shortage … ?
I’m not convinced …
Let’s move on.
Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum*, Olga†, Irene‡ and Debbi§ putting in their answers: with Olga, Debbi and Mum scoring five out of five, and Irene on one.
Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?
Q1) The Republic of the Congo became independent on 15th August. 15th August of which year: 1960, 1961 or 1962?Q2) It became independent from where: France, Germany or Portugal?Q3) The country’s also known as Congo-Brazzaville. After its what: capital city, largest mountain or largest lake?Q4) The Republic ranked 89th on the 2024 World what Report?Q5) Finally … ? The Republic’s internet addresses end with what:.cc,.cgor.gg?
Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 14th August is National Navajo Code-Talkers Day. Where: China, the USA or Germany?A1) The USA.Q2) The Navaho were what: Uyghurs, Native Americans or Leipzigers?A2) Native Americans.Q3) 14th August is the feast day of Arnold of Soissons. He’s the patron saint of home: sugar beet growers, hop pickers or cider makers?A3) Hop pickers.Q4) Halle Berry was born on 14th August, 1966. She played Jinx: in which Bond film?A4) Die Another Day.Q5) Finally … ? Frank Oppenheimer was born on 14th August, 1912. He was a what: biochemist, particle physicist or cryptographer?A5) Particle physicist.
Here’s mottos …
“Unité, Travail, Progrès”.The Republic’s motto in French.“Unity, Work, Progress”.The Republic’s motto in English.
And a national anthem …
The next ten question set is on 25th August: it’s about Nottinghamshire.
Comments will be published, tomorrow morning.
Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.
Decisions about scores are final.
Thank you for coming: have a good day.
* Hello, Mum!
† Oh, LORD but you have a piles of issues, there, Olga¶! Would facial recognition technology help … ? I guess it wouldn’t, would it?! :D
Is your mother’s phone something like this? Normally I’d suggest replacing it, but, given what’s happening …
Four Euros? As in €4? That’s about £3·50, isn’t it? How old was your old phone … ?! (There should be a few phone recycling/e-waste places in Barcelona: if it’s anywhere like Essex …)
Cheers for the video … !
‡ Morning, Irene … ! (I think we’ve got muddled, somewhere, haven’t we … ?)
§ I’ve not seen License to Kill in years, Debbi!
¶ That’s a thought, Olga: I thought this Facebook video would appeal … !
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Thanks for the suggestions, Paul, and I love the video! It's true, about Welsh and how they pronounce the double LL. I know (more or less) how it works now, but I found it confusing to begin with.
My mother's phone isn't exactly like that, but it works similarly. There isn't much point to changing it. The one she has is one I got thanks to Amazon Vine, as it seemed easy, and it was similar to the old ones she'd had, so I thought she might find it easier. But no. It is a bit bizarre, because, in her case, she doesn't seem to remember many things about the past either. Her short term memory is shot to pieces. (This morning we decided to boil some pasta and make pasta salad. So she boiled the pasta and had left it to cool after straining it and all. I had to help her look after the wound from the procedure on Monday and a couple of other things, and she appears a few minutes later and tells me: I was thinking we could boil some pasta and put it on the salad. The thing is, if she had just looked, she would have seen it there, but it is as if she were wearing blinkers. She only seems to look in front of her. She will open two bottles of milk often, because she decides she finished the previous one and she doesn't check in the fridge). But her long term memory, that many people say remains quite good, and they seem to go back to the past, isn't that great either. I've tried checking old photographs or talking about events from the past, and most of the time she doesn't remember. She might have a good moment, but, in general, no.
And she is terribly disoriented as to dates and time.
But, what I mean is that I tried the phone, thinking she would remember how to use it, but she didn't. So I decided to carry on with the old one, but she didn't do any better with that one. So when it gave up the ghost, I just switched it to the new one. She is not going to learn how to use a new phone, and she had forgotten how to use the old one, so...
(To tell you the truth, neither her nor my father have ever been very technologically minded, so if something went wrong and it wasn't anything urgent, they will wait until I turned up to sort it, even when I was living in the UK, and they didn't know how to read their SMS messages or how to send them, so that has never been an option).
I might have told you in the past, but my father didn't even deal with things like bank cards, and he was totally bowled over when a cousin told him that you could get money out of an ATM with a card... (that is after years of ATMs being in existence).
I did try a simple smartphone for her years back, before the diagnosis, and it didn't work. So, well it is what it is.
I have to trust that if she is out with her friend and something happens, her friend or someone else will phone me. I can phone her, and she usually manages to answer the phone. That is about it.
Let's hope there are no new issues with the medication, Paul.
Best part of the movie? When Bond went to Ernest Hemingway's house. The polydactyl cats were so cool! :)
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