Now this is just plain weird. The world’s number 1 bridge player, Geir Helgemo, has had sanctions against him by the Word Bridge Federation. For failing a drug test. A bridge player. Not only that but the ‘banned substances’ were in fact testosterone and a female fertility drug. Testosterone is great if you’re a weight lifter or boxer, but bridge? As for the fertility drug: firstly why would a man take that? And secondly, why is it even banned? Would either drug enhance the ability to finesse? Could they help you keep track of the cards? Even odder still is that bridge players are more drugged up than participants in any other sport. If you can call it a ‘sport’. Which makes you wonder why they drug test in the first place. More useful ‘banned substances’ for my type of ‘kitchen bridge’ would be salt (crisps, nuts), sugar (sweets, cakes) and whiskey (whiskey). But fortunately we’re not under WBF rules in my house.

Meanwhile, what’s happening in Trump-world? His love affair with Kim Jong-Un, the rather silly looking tubby little leader of North Korea, seems to be over. After ‘the deal’ went sour and Trump stated, in his wonderfully simplistic way of never saying anything of any substance, sometimes ya just gotta walk away. So they consciously uncoupled. They un-hugged. A slight difference of opinion over what constitutes ‘disarmament’. Trump uses the more common definition of divesting yourself once and forever of all militaristic nuclear potential. Kim goes for the somewhat more ‘North Korean’ version in which it means getting rid of one warhead. An old one. That didn’t really work anyway. And for that he wanted all sanctions lifted, wanted US aid, marketing support, a seat on the UN and to be made governor of South Dakota. Whilst retaining 99% of the nuclear threat to the region.

The only puzzling bit really is how they arrived at a crossroads on such completely different roads after 6 months of constant negotiation and supposed ‘agreement’.

I use this photoshot of this horrendous scoreline in the hope that I may later be able to laugh at how funny that was to become. Oh please. Please. PLEEEAAASSSSE!!!!!

… Saturday. To be decided. In the second half.

A xxxx