Table Tennis: Gerry

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Gerry is the creative mastermind behind this and a plethora of other sites around the glorious web. His talent and patience know no humanly bounds as he follows a clumsy trier around the country, filming the resulting mess for your amusement.  He loves pickled onions and cinema from countries I’ve never heard of. He’s officially ace – they’ve tested.  As Paula’s photos-and-video … Read More

Trying my patience

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Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can; seldom found in women, and never in a man. Words of wisdom bestowed on me by an elderly lady with whom I once worked. Ironic then that her poor husband heard the adage with a smile more than thrice on any given day. While the phrase stuck fast in my head, … Read More

There’s no ‘I’ in team

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Teamwork: it’s one of those irritating buzzwords you hear just about everywhere you go. Job interviews, personality tests, random courses. If you’re anything like me, you’ve lied about teamwork skills at all of them. Don’t get me wrong, I love people and don’t even mind being around them at times but, as a self-proclaimed indoorsman, I’ve never really been in … Read More

D.N.F. it!

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Pardon my grammar but I’m no athlete. I don’t have the fitness levels, the attitude, or the figure for leotards. I once almost caught athlete’s foot but the proud fungal infection wasn’t willing to sully its good name so passed me by for a jogger with potential. As I said, I’m no athlete. So any sport that demands three times … Read More