LOGIC. One of the less intellectual members of the Barmaid’s Bosom Brains Trust, and there are a lot of less intellectual members, is Chernobyl, so called because he is a very slow reactor.
Anyway, he came in one evening last week moaning about his neighbour’s dog – apparently it runs round the garden next door, barking all night and keeping him awake.
Two days later he came in all smiles. “I had him, the bloke next door with the yapping dog,” he says.
“How did you do that?” we all (well we both) asked.
“Simple”, says the slow reactor. “Last night I jumped over the fence, got the dog and put it in our garden, just to show him what it’s like to be kept awake by the dog next door.” Logic.
Thanks to all my Welsh friends for the e-mails, text messages, phone messages and the like since last Saturday’s rugby international. Nice to hear from you all and, it has to be asked, where were you all during the World Cup last summer?
I had a clear out weekend, and it is amazing what you keep, is it not?
Went through some stuff in my dad’s old shed, then had a go at our garage, but I did not take on the most onerous household task...the cupboard under the stairs.
It is a dark and dim place where everything is shoved.
At the front is the Hoover and some coats, and a machine we had to get fit, but from there on in, there could be anything.
Lord Lucan riding Shergar could well be in there somewhere.
I reckon if ever I get to the back of the ‘cupboard under the stairs’ and press the wall I will end up in Narnia.
Having cleared it all out it was a trip to the tip, and that is a place I really do enjoy going to.
If you were a people watcher, the tip would be the place to study human behaviour.
I know I’ve gone on about keeping rubbish, but I am often amazed at what gets thrown away.
Some of it looks perfectly good to me. My dad would have had it in the back of his shed, no problem.
This week was the anniversary of the Munich air crash. There has been much said and written about that day, and it is one of the things I remember, maybe not so much the day, but the weeks and months after.
I remember when they got to the FA Cup final Manchester United a few months after the crash – they played Bolton and I suspect only the people in Bolton wanted Wanderers to win, but they did.
Like so many things it seems like yesterday, but then things that happened yesterday I have no recall of at all.
* Dave Bradley is the BBC Hereford and Worcester sports correspondent.