Housework on ice

Well it wasn't as dramatic as I had hoped for and now it is a blustery and wet day which suits me perfectly. There will be a large mud-wrestling tournament on Bath Rugby Ground this afternoon. It is good to see them earning their money for once.

I am putting myself on light duties today, because I am booked-in to make the massive clear-out that I have been putting-off for 15 years, beginning next week. This is way beyond the amateur de-cluttering sessions which seem to be all the rage amongst us boomers who are rapidly approaching a time when - if we don't do it now - we will have to leave it to our children and grand children to do after we depart. Personally, I think that we have taken everything else from them and we are leaving it to them to pay the massive bill that we have incurred just to keep us alive for a few more fruitless years, so what does a bit more housework mean to them?

I raised an eyebrow amongst my woke friends the other day by saying that the Winter sport of Curling is sometimes known as 'housework on ice', because of all the manic sweeping in front of the lump of Scottish granite as it glides along, and that is why women are so good at it. 

Talking of non-p.c. humour, a diminutive woman I know recently began dating one of the most enormous men I have ever known. I mean, he is really enormous at about 25 stone and over six feet tall. I was genuinely shocked when I was told of the pairing and my mind reeled with the inevitable mental images that most of us (you) would never dare to share. I said to a mutual female friend that all I could think of whenever I saw them together was the penultimate scene in The Wizard of Oz (photo above). The look of shock on her face as the image formed in her head was replaced by an involuntary smile which - try as she might - she could not prevent.

It looks as though nobody cares a damn about this year's Winter Olympics in Beijing. Russia are the pantomime villains as usual, forcing a 15 year-old girl to take performance-enhancing drugs and then getting her to say that it was her grandfather's fault; her coach chastising her after the inevitable poor performance when she left the rink in tears. 

I believe the Americans when they say that they have intelligence that - far from withdrawing troops from the border - they are still planning to invade Ukraine at some point soon, but I remember the quality of American 'intelligence' when it came to weapons of mass destruction manufacture in Iraq. Sometimes both sides make it difficult to trust them.