Mine was certainly crap, given that I misunderstood the ‘one size fits all’ catchphrase. However, I live in expectation rather than hope that ‘Nine silent ones n’ Bob’ will scoop honours elsewhere.

and would no doubt violate some rule of the compertition!

another few weeks and i could have honed my ending to razer like sharpness, as it is no one apart from me understands it.

Well, the deadline for end of story has passed. Much panic and confusion, but in the end we all managed to send our entries in. Solidus and I completed the Shaun Hutson, The Tunnel story and Dod did the One size fits all one, by fay weldon. I would put mine up on the forum for the perusal of all, but I feel it is possibly too crappy for public consumption.

the evidence of jul’s mallet indicates that he loves to hit the ball with the lower edge of the head. possibly to add more spin.

on the livster designs front, the Stanland website is pretty much complete. Warwick is getting there.

Work starts on tuesday. much excitement and i now have a large collection of shirts to wear. the as yet unnamed car is rearing to go.

Tan’s croquet set arrived. The sound of mallet on ball was marvellous to hear again. I started well, winning the first game easily, then gradually deteriorated, until it seemed I could no longer strike anything cleanly. Or, rather, I could strike it okay, but it didn’t go where I expected. I put this down to devious ‘burrows’, heavy dew on the grass, and constant verbal sniping from lesser players capitalising on my momentary lapse. So far as I’m concerned, the scatter pattern on the mallet faces tells it like it is.

I was invited, but I chose not to go, on account of England’s almost certain collapse.