I find two nights is sufficient. It is rather more than a watch though. The heart monitor alone is worthwhile, my mum discovered she had heart issues thanks to her apple watch and is now getting treatment.I know, I’m an old fart, but I can’t understand why anyone would buy a watch which needs charging every night
Five out of the last six scheduled ODIs at Bristol have been abandoned, which should tell the administrators something i.e. choose somewhere else. As a one-time inhabitant, in the two or three years I was there, I couldn't believe how torrential the rain could be, out of the blue sometimes, so combined with not having the resources of a 'test' ground it quickly gets saturated. Gloucestershire have never won the County Championship, despite being one of the oldest clubs, and having Bristol as their county ground must impede them in that regard. Personally, I find it an unattractive ground in other ways too.
I'm an old fart too, and could never understand why all watches seemed to be manufactured for right-handers. Being a leftie, after asking in a jewellers for a lefties variety I was told I was born awkward!! Don't suppose it matters now on modern stuff.I know, I’m an old fart, but I can’t understand why anyone would buy a watch which needs charging every night
Left handed watches are definitely a thing. But just not nearly so widespread as their right handed equivalents.
No, you were born sinister.
Thank-you!! I actually had some cheque books with the cheques on the left hand side (spoilt rotten).No, you were born sinister.
I always thought that Homer Simpsons neighbour, Ned Flanders, had the right idea with his Leftorium, a shop that sold only lefthanded products.
There used to be one of those shops in Brewer Street, Soho, London called 'Anything Left-Handed'. Nowadays they only sell left-handed products on-line.
Lloyds certainly did one.
I hope they have a left-handed website...
I'm also a lefty, and the one thing that used to annoy me was when I'd sit at a desk at university or work where a "real" lefty had been sitting before, and the mouse had been moved to the left-hand side of the computer; depending on how the cables were tied, it wasn't always easy to move it back!
I am right handed for most things except for using a spoon and most importrant of all writing. I managed fine, writing left-handed in my infants school but in my years at Junior school (8-11 years old) when we were taught to use pens using ink the problems started. At that time the headmaster had a thing about writing in italic script which required the use of a chisel ended nib held at 45 deg so that strokes from bottom left to top right were thin, and top left to bottom right were thick. That was fine for right-handed writers but using a left hand meant that the chisel end would just dig into the paper. We were supplied with special hooked nibs that either made it worse or forced users to hold the pen at a ridiculous angle givein wrist cramps (and of course more rubbish handwriting)!
Our left-handed scissors at primary school had one green handle and one yellow handle. I distinctly remember trying and failing to use them right-handed, multiple times.
Ah, musical annoyances: composers who wrote music in silly keys and used alto clef for brass instruments (looking at you, Dvorak)!I would also ban piano music that doesn't have guitar chords on it. I learnt musical theory on a cornet, and consequently am able to read, and indeed sight-read, the treble clef (right hand) without difficulty. However, when it comes to the bass clef, I can't sight-read, and I can't really read it unless there's no treble clef. Coupled with the fact that I don't have a great degree of fine dexterity in my left hand, the only real alternative is to play guitar chords in the left hand and hope everybody is listening to the right hand. This means I have to make up my own when I have to/want to play a piece of music that doesn't have them, but because I don't play the guitar (I had a few lessons in primary school, but that's it) the resultant "guitar chords" aren't much help to anyone who wants to use them to play guitar. The solution is either for me to take up the guitar or for all the music to come with guitar chords - and there are enough musical instruments that I half-play lying around the house that I know which I'd prefer
I can manage silly keys because I've been practising Phantom music (my signature gives that away slightly), a disproportionate amount of which is in D flat. But given I can't manage bass clef, I think alto or tenor would blow my tiny mind!
) but I'm going to be seeing a friend who's a rapper soon and I don't want him to murder me!
What about the Fox & Goose?
The Hare and Hounds is a great one if you're playing Road Trip Cricket though!
Similarly, any driver who deliberately closes the gap up at motorway intersections to make it difficult for a vehicle on a sliproad to join the flow should be dealth with, (there is no point in crushing the car, that woun't cure the problem).
You should tell the rail industry whenever we have disruption from rain that is well within the bounds of climatology, or when the tracks buckle in heat that happens at least once every year in SE England.
That is a good one. Yesterday I was caught up in traffic congestion on the M6 around Preston heading from the Lakes to Salford (due to an accident very close to the M61 junction). Normally when passing a incoming sliproad I will create a generous gap in front of me to allow zip-merging. It baffles me as to why firstly other drivers don't, and secondly why drivers trying to enter from the sliproad ignore the gap in front of me and try to squeeze into a non-existant gap right at the end of the sliproad, as though joining the queue 50 meters further ahead gains so much more.