.......out for a duck........

Woke up this morning feeling crap after another disturbed night.

Got sorted, had some breakfast, got my bag, went outside......to discover a flat tyre!

I have one of these modern cars that doesn't have a spare...just one of those bottles of gunge to reinflate the tyre........but you then can only drive at 50mph.....and you still need to buy a new tyre.....so I phoned work, told them I'd be in late and headed off to the local tyre centre.

The tyre was whipped off....and there was a nail and a screw stuck in it...........where the hell do these things come from?

Fifteen minutes later the tyre was repaired....I was charged the princely sum of £10...and I was off to work.

Have you noticed when your day starts badly.....it throws your entire day out of kilter. It was like wading through treacle all day.

Got home....knowing I had to be back at work for 6.15....showered and a 20 minute nap....and off I went again.

An hour stood outside the venue......meeting and greeting........I eventually escaped at 8.15....and shot up to the Rose for the quiz.

Arch nemesis the Cricket Club tonight....and we needed a win to get back on track after two losses and a draw in the last three weeks..

For the first time in two years the skewed questions went in our favour tonight!

Round 1 Won 6-3
Round 2 Won 4-0
Running total 10-3
Round 3 Won 10 -0
Running total 20-3
Round 4 Lost 2-4
Half time score 22-7

A fag, shandy replenished ( driving) and back for the second half.

Round 5 Lost 4-6
Running total 26-13
Round 6 Lost 7-10
Running total 33-23
Round 7 Won 8-4
Running total 41-27
Last round Lost 1-7
Final score 42-34

Victory! The first half won it for us....although the questions did flip at half time so the opponents had the hard first half and we had the hard second half. They weren't happy!.....and we play them again next week....away....so lets see if we can do the double.

A few for you to try.
1. Often seen on tombstones what does the Latin phrase Hic jacet mean?
2. Often seen beside the artist's name which Latin phrase is often seen on paintings and means"painted by"?
3. The Latitude Festival is held in which English county?
4. Who was the author of the novel "The Cruel Sea"?
5. In La Liga who do Levante play in a local derby?
6. In La Liga Real Sociedad play which team in the Basque derby?
7. Pago Pago is the capital of which "protected" U.S territory?
8. Of Magellans 5 ships which was the only one to survive the epic round the world journey and arrive back to its home port?
9.Kenny Ball and his Jazz Men had their highest U.K chart single at number 2 with which tune?
10. The Ems dispatch or Ems telegram caused which country to declare war in July 1870?

It's gone past midnight....I'm weary....I have a full day tomorrow......I'll catch up on comments tomorrow evening..........

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Answers
1. Here lies
2. Pinxit
3. Suffolk
4. Nicholas Monsarrat
5. Valencia
6. Athletico Bilbao
7. American Samoa
8. The Victoria
9. Midnight in Moscow
10. France (the Franco-Prussian war)