The first of two “Christmas blogs” are designed to make you smile; a chance to reflect on life’s absurdities…
“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities, has the power to make you commit injustices” … Voltaire

I honestly never ever thought that I would be reporting the item of news that has just been sent to me.

But before I divulge it perhaps we should go back a few years, in fact we should go to the beginning of the present Century.

That was the year I was introduced to bowling in South Africa. I had played the harder game of Crown Green bowls in NW England – but we won’t go into that again.