Count the rings IV

Even more signs that you're getting old:

- you keep a camera in the car in case you have an accident
- you leave the dining table to go and watch the Queen's Speech on Christmas Day
- you buy 'off the peg' reading glasses even though they're not quite the right prescription

A good sport

Looking through some old school reports the other day I was reminded that I was never regarded as particularly athletic. One of my teachers said that "he tries hard despite his lack of flexibility", and another suggested that "he takes up bowls".

Never good for a young lad to hear those kind of messages, but I suppose they have had a direct effect on me now being an expert at 'Elephant Polo' which is played at my kind of pace!

Lies and damned lies

I'd like to tell the person who has been claiming that I'm anorexic that it's not true. I can read and write as well as anyone else.

The emergency exits are here, here and here

On a recent trip to Berlin, I flew a budget airline with no reserved seating, which left me to work out for myself where to sit.

I found myself considering the following:

- a window seat to get a good view
- an aisle seat to escape quickly if the plane lands on water
- next to the pretty blond (also to get a good view)
- in the hold to avoid the balding middle aged man, the fat ugly woman and the family with the screaming child!

Language barrier

There's a chap I see of a lunchtime who reads a book called 'One minute Japanese'. He seems to read it every day and has been for the last three months, and whilst I appreciate that it's a very hard language, after that much time if you haven't mastered it then you might as well give up.