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Daily writing prompt

What are your favorite sports to watch and play?

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I like to think I’m a good sport and will occasionally watch something purely for entertainment purposes. Though as I am an observer of human nature, it pains me when I see behaviour which isn’t very sporting. Sport is all now so monetised, the stakes are so high, that it seems anything goes, and we have lost the point of Sport . So I turn to Shakespeare who knew a thing or two and probably watched the odd game of Tennis as it features in his plays.

“If all the year were playing holidays. To sport would be as tedious as to work” Henry IV Part 1(Act 1 Scene 2

As to me playing sport nowadays. I shall again refer to Shakespeare ” But I , that am not shaped for sportive tricks”. Richard III (Act 1 Scene 1)

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What would you do if you won the lottery?

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I’d sit on the Dock of the Bay and think what boat I could buy, then I’d breathe deeply and wish I could write a song as good as Sitting on the Dock of the Bay and realise that money isn’t everything and a boat wouldn’t make me happy anyway.

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What books do you want to read?

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So many books are essential reading, yet we have so little time.

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List five things you do for fun.

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Only do shopping lists, and they are not fun, they are tedious and the effort of shopping is monotonous. Apologies it was raining all day yesterday and I’ve got the dishes to do.

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Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc.

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Ha, Ha answered this before and this is one I remember. Herradine. Only one thing has changed I’d quite like also to be known as the Italian for Garden, giardino!

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What’s your dream job?

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I’ve got news for you, work and making others work is passe.

We should enjoy what we do, no one has the right to make anyone’s life a misery.

I’ve worked all my life and now I realise I was a cog in someone else’s wheel doing what needed to be done to earn an income. Most of it useless.

You know the worst thing though, who made my life most miserable were my peer group of fellow workers. It was them who introduced pointless competition and wanted to impress middle management with petty trophies , while middle management in turn wanted to impress senior management.

It wasn’t about doing the job , it was about making an impression.

And now, well all that’s behind me. So I can laugh at it and really I am pleased I kept my sanity.

Funny I was talking to the taxman yesterday as the final closure on my “working life” and he said when will you get your next payslip? I said I don’t get payslips I’m retired. My only source of income is my pension. It struck me , his assumption was that people would work forever. I suppose that’s what tax people believe.

Perhaps there is a lesson there too.

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