I spent some time working in the new shop getting things ready. When I finished I set the alarm and walked out, turned to lock the door…
…and found that I had a key that won’t lock the door from the outside. It’s fixed now, but as I stood there making futile attempts to lock the door life seemed to be against me.
It seems that my day has been one long string of conflicts with inanimate objects. It started off with my trousers, which fought back with unusual vigour this morning. The theme continued when I had to mount a Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal long service award with four extra bars (for 35, 40, 45 and 50 years). As you can see from the picture, it was a fiddly job. The bars are two different sizes, just to make things more difficult.
Fifty years voluntary service selling poppies is quite a feat, and I can’t help feeling it would be nice to mark it with something a bit better.
From there, as detailed above, it was a short step to fighting with the door lock.
Compared to the British Men’s Curling team I had it easy. I didn’t watch the match on TV but I did see one shot on the highlights. It threaded its way between two other stones, bumped one of ours out of the way and won the match for the Swiss.
It’s not necessarily the most gripping of sports, but a great shot is a great shot whatever te sport. And that was a great shot. It would have been better if it had been a British shot, but that’s life.
Without sporting set-backs winning would mean nothing.
I’m now off to finish the second part of yesterday’s post.
These comments did give me such a laugh! I can’t see or hear the word ‘trousers’ now without thinking of you!
Taken out of context that comment may cause more interest than it warrants. 🙂
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Indeed…
Actually curling is one of my favourite sports to watch.
I do actually find it fascinating, though not exactly exciting. 🙂
“Without sporting set-backs winning would mean nothing.” – a great philosophy. It applies to inanimate objects, too
I know I’m in for a bad fday when my clothing fights back. 🙂
As far as curling goes, one commentator remarked that winning the Canadian Olympic trials was probably harder than winning a medal in the actual Olympics.
I can believe it – they seem to have talent in depth. I take it from the fact that Scotland/GB are ranked equally in World Terms that Scotland provides the CB team.
You’ve got to watch out for those inanimate objects. They are a sneaky bunch.
They took a firm grip of my left leg and wouldn’t let go until I gave them a good kicking. 🙂
There you go! It’s best not to let them get the upper hand.
No, it alters the whole dynamic of the day if your trousers gain the upper hand.
You bet!
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When a man’s trousers do not respect him as master, it might be a difficult day for that man. Oh well–
Yeah, curling. Someone wrote a long good post about it recently, and I asked which teams often do best, but got no reply.
Trousers…pah!
Curling – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Curling_Rankings
Good, thanks. So Wales is not big on it, eh?
It appears not. Though neither is England… 🙂
It seemed they stuck England and Scotland on the same line in both, so I was unsure…does Scotland just reprewsent the Uk in this but they felt they had to put England there too? IT looked unclear.
That’s Scotland and GB, on one line, which I suspect means that Scotland also play as Great Britain when required. England, as the Scots will be happy to tell you, occupies a much more modest slot in the rankings – sixteen places lower at Number 20. UK/GB is a complex subject… 🙂
Yeah, you seldom see Scotland acting as the whole UK, but if it’s curling or haggis making, then sure, they can lead the way!
I used to live up near Geordieland, so we were near the border.
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