How to join the winning side

 

When I was in grammar school many years ago, I can always remember counting how many boys were in my class on the days when football took place.  Inevitably there were some who would have been off ill with some malady or other, but I was always delighted if the absentees were an odd number.

Why?  Well, let me explain.

We were an even number of boys in the class – 32 to be exact – so if an odd number of boys were not in school, it meant there would be an odd number reporting for football that afternoon.

And that was important to me.

Have I captured your curiosity?  Let me explain further.

Communication

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Looking back, I can see it’s several weeks, two months in fact, since I wrote any news bulletins or blogs from here, so on this mid-summer’s day while the sun is behind some clouds, I thought it was a good opportunity to write again. But what can I write about this time? 

You’ll see that I’ve dropped the “Coronavirus” name from the title of my bulletin now – more in hope than in realism because it’s only too obvious that the pandemic is not over yet. It’s good to see how vaccines are making a difference, and most of us have now had our two doses, but infections are still a real danger to society as this horrible virus itself fights for its survival. In the UK we might yet see a third wave coming our way as we watch crowds mixing in several places without any attention to “social distancing”.