Table Tennis

As age has started to creep up, I have had to give up some of the sports I enjoy. For example I no longer play football, I did play 5 a side for a while but got banned for life at the age of 55. Actually - Jackie banned me after I came home with a torn calf muscle and had to spend the next few weeks hobbling around on crutches.
Luckily there are gentler sports such as table tennis...........OK it is gentler if you don't lash out at the ball and  bash the knuckle of your little finger on the corner of the table........then it becomes table Tourettes.
I only started playing a couple of years ago...and I think I am improving!
I got very close to beating Tony Ertzabitt today, [only one of the best players at work, so this would have been quite an achievement]! But at 19-20 down I fluffed my serve and lost.
Tony commented that I nearly got him that time. I explained that I had got so exited at the thought that I might beat him that I had a 'semi' on and lost my concentration. At this point Tony expressed incredulity that I could still suffer from that type of problem at my age [61], I explained that I was still fit and healthy and that it happens quite often when I wear my support hosiery!

Pathetic sometimes

I have realized that I have developed some really quirky habits, for example I ALWAYS turn a biscuit over to see what type of conveyor band it has been baked on. I always look carefully at the egg custards in the Supermarket to make sure that the Nutmeg depositor [that I designed] is still working correctly, I check the number of mini Swiss rolls in a tub, just to make sure that the pot fillers are still working properly. I suppose that I am one of the few people who can never get away from their work, plus I have hundreds of excuses to buy things for scientific research!

HOW KNOWLEDGE WORKS

HOW KNOWLEDGE WORKS:-
There are those that think they know everything, these are the ones who don't know that they don't know everything.
There are those who know that they don't know everything, these are the ones that know that the ones who don't know that they don't know everything know Jack Shit.

With humble apologies to Donald Rumsfeld for almost stealing an idea!

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Happy New Year

Woo hoo - Happy New Year to everyone, In particular, I hope that 2012a will bring all those who are currently offshore a happy homecoming, so we can all share your good fortune.

It must be a terrible time of year for dyslexic kids, they will only find out Christmas morning that once again they have written to Satan and asked for lots of presents!!

Summat fer Christmas