I dropped a bottle of tooth-black today. A good friend of mine had borrowed my pirate costume for a fancy dress party (at least I hope that's why). He returned it all in a bag and whilst emptying it I dropped the little glass bottle on the tiled floor of my hall. YOU. WOULD. NOT. BELIEVE. THE. MESS one small bottle of black tooth-dye can make in a small, cream coloured hallway.
Especially when your wife is upstairs and won't believe that you WERE being careful, and no you didn't know it was in the hat. I am, needless to say, doing double housework this week.
I think that The Lewis-Pickering axis may have an idea of my predicament. They may say that they were being careful with the bag they were unloading but the mess is still there on the wall for all to see. Pickering, the used car salesman that he is, made a very telling comment when he said he hoped people would vote on achievements not on personality in the Extra-ordinary General Meeting this Sunday.
My Father offered advice rarely; I can only recall three pieces of (repeatable) wisdom:
Never leave a public toilet smiling.
Cut the cackle and deal.
Know yourself (always followed with the cryptic-but-becoming-clearer-as-the-years-pass-and-I-become-worryingly-more-like-him comment 'it's a wise man who knows his father...')
Now, Pickering knows himself, apparently, when he asks member reps not to consider his character when voting. If it was down to a 'niceness' vote I don't think he or Lewis would trouble the scorer. But he may have a point; perhaps they were being careful when the bottle smashed. I have a sneaky feeling that, if the truth will out, Ruddock won't be as blameless as popular conception would have it. In no way am I saying he is in the wrong, just perhaps not as in the right as, well, I would want him to be. It wasn't SuperDave's fault that he packed the tooth-black in my pirate hat but the mess still had to be cleaned up and the Greater Power placated. Hmmm.
TV Rugby: I remember Paul Turner kicking penalties with either foot depending on which side of the pitch they were marked. He used real guile and skill to create space and beat defenders. Why then, are The Dragons so incredibly boring to watch?
And, no, they are not called New-porrrrrrrrrrt.
Great Thunderstorm the other night, wasn't it. Blimey.
Joe Davies wrote...
Wilbach - this is one of your brothers commenting.
The full advice our father offered
1. Never come out of a public toilet smiling WITH ANOTHER MAN"
2. It is a wise man who knows his OWN father.
Nevertheless I think you are probably right about the Ruddock afair - and remember not all the relevant information can probably be made public for legal reasons. It's hard sometimes to defend yourself when you are constrained in what you can say publically.
Keep blogging - it's a very good read - better than listening to you!
Posted by: Joe Davies | May 15, 2006 12:35 PM