Those friends who knew me years ago before our ways diverged, may recollect how tempered was my intellect though rivalry emerged whenever cricket bat or tennis racquet were flourished in a hand that nowadays is more prone to encompass a fine Chateaubriand.
Tennis alas is of the past and there, I fear, must bide, but other sports and pastimes I can still perform with pride.
So please set out those winks that I may tiddle. Dust off those mallets, ***** and hoops, I’m not one of your nincompoops and need no Queen’s flamingo to win without a taradiddle. Or we could turn to bingo.
Then there are those of intellect who might like bridge or chess, though possibly in retrospect It’s best to acquiesce.
Ludo, Trivial Pursuits and even Snakes and Ladders might yet provide a good excuse to encourage my swaggers.
The choice alas is far too great and though it seems too late, yet, dice in hand, I bid farewell with hopes still unerased and one finger upraised.