Deceptively difficult

Another lost toss (but who's counting). Liz & Lap went up first which seems to be becoming a fairly regular opening line-up. During the pre-match warmup, Edwin arrived & told me all about his recent Caribbean cruise vacation, mentioning all the islands he visited & the various dining options on the ship. It's funny but I swear blind that I didn't ask him about it.

I missed the end bit of Liz's first rack cuz I was reluctantly chosen as a coach by Lap cuz Steve was outside having a puff. I got back to my seat & asked (the recently re-appeared) Steve if Liz had won the rack and he said "you know, I was sitting here watching it and I have absolutely no idea who won". What was he smoking outside? Both Lap & Liz won on the hill in tough (and obviously close) matches.

We threw a rather late (important handbag meeting apparently) Weasler up 3rd who'd manage to squeeze in one night of practice over the last 3 weeks in between visits to China & The Bahamas. He drew the bronzed looking Edwin.


Meanwhile Slipper, who had by self-admission been red-hot recently, went up 4th. Unfortunately he didn't "feel" it in his match against Tom T and came in second, leaving us with the situation that the large-headed-German-chap had to win his match or we lost. And the score was 6-4 to his opponent in a race to 7. Somehow Weasler showed true intestinal fortitude and pulled through, leading us to victory. His comment after "saved your sorry asses again" was difficult to reconcile with his 3-4 record. Still, let him have his fun.