High Score

A photo of my high score - entered as 'LHD' (Left Hand Drive) as was using my left hand (see yesterday's post).

Hi Score! Yay Me!

The Isaac Newton oub has one of those bowling video games and, up until yesterday, I was pretty pants (Lou, of course, is good at it). Last night, Lou asked if I wanted to have a game or two. Due to injury to right-hand (sustained burying poor Fidget) I was playing left-handed.

Not only did I get a 'turkey' for the first time ever, I actually managed it twice :-0

This lead to an unbelievable score of 230 points! I'll say that again, 230 points! :-)

That's the second-highest ever recorded on the machine and only 5 points off Jim's all-time record. Can't help but think that if I was able to hit a few of the pins that eluded the first bowl then I'd have beaten him (that said, I'd have settled for a decent score and, never having got past 200 before I was quite happy with that).

Interestingly, it turns out that Lou is a bit of a poor loser: she insisted that we play again as she wanted to beat me but unfortunately she didn't. I won by one point on the last go :-)

Cutomers are stupid - a great website

Found this site on the interweb and it proves that it's not just University of Cambridge customers that are thicker than a bowl of manky yoghurt ....

http://notalwaysright.com/

Fidget

Sadly I have to report that one of our much-loved cats, Fidget, died this morning. He will be sorely missed by one and all.

:-(

R.I.P. Fidget our feline friend

It's bloody freezing

Third day back at work and it's still taking some getting used to: it's not nice to leave the house in the dark and trudge through the snow to sit in a cold office and then do the same on the way home.

Still, looking on the bright side, at least I only have to do this twice more this week :-)

Happy new beer!

Happy new year to one and all!

Hopefully in 2009 I'll get more time to post stuff on here both about the photography and more general guff (I'd like to do a post every day but that's both impractical and not much happens in any case).

Cheers :-)

Quite Interesting Facts

• Ping-pong was originally called ping-pong, not whiff-whaff, as London's top smeghead, Boris Johnson, publicly claimed at the Beijing Olympics.

• There's a town in Uruguay called Fray Bentos.

• Peeling sticky tape emits X-rays.

• Robin Gibb has never watched 'Saturday Night Fever' all the way through.

• The Smurfs have sold more than 10 million albums in the last three years.

• Valerie Singleton not only had a fling with Peter Purves, but fancied John Noakes (yuk!)

• Henry V invented passports.