Deflated

It was a very quiet quiz night - only 5 teams in total, so our choice of team name was apt to the say the least. The main motivating factor behind it was the fact that Dave's car suffered a flat tire on the way to the pub rather than the lack of turnout at the quiz.

It was the full team again, and we had Film and Entertainment (with a special theme on Police movies), Food and Drink and Dingbats for the three other rounds. We were very lucky we put our joker on film and entertainment after a heated vote (Princey and Dave wanted Dingbats) as that was our only good round in the whole quiz and the main reason we won.

In sum, it was our lowest score of the entire year and we were very very lucky to win. We went into the final round three points up and scored only a seven and to add to the excitement, the team closest to us scored nine meaning that the final margin was only one point. We were exceptionally lucky to win - the other team actually outscored us in a majority of the rounds but found their undoing in the dingbats round where they could only manage a meagre three points.

I ended up going through Justin's draft first chapter for his manuscript, a proposed biography of his friend Winky, a real old-time pilot. I really liked the draft - Justin is absolutely right that Winky has an amazing story to tell. My main job as I saw it was to read through the draft a few times and look closely at how it could read better, and proposing a list of suggestions for changing the language. The prerogative still lies with Justin, as the author, in deciding whether or not to keep the changes.

A very late evening ended with yet another post-midnight indulgence in the terrible temptation that is McDonald's, along with Claire and Richard. What made it truly unconscionable, was the fact that it was my second burger of the night - I had a Shoe burger for dinner at the pub earlier. So another series of resolutions to add to my list - forebear from late night McDonald burgers and go home earlier after the pub quiz on Wednesday.