My friends at the BBC persist in using misleading headlines. The latest example "Wasps thrown out of cup" needs explanation for the many foreign visitors (a Mrs Trellis of North Wales) who visit me here.
This is not an article about displacement of members of the Vespoidea family, nor is it to do with White Anglo Saxon Protestants. Rather it refers to an obscure London sporting club, who, readers with long memories may recall, were mildly successful in the last century.
However, like wasps round a jampot, they have been attracted to a downward spiral of failure of late.
Let me make it quite clear that I do not take any delight in their downfall, and, at this season of goodwill, it would be inappropriate to use this forum as a means of taking a cheap shot at my CEO, who has a morbid fascination with this team.
I would also like to clarify that the brevity of this essay is not due to my having typing difficulties because my sides ache.
My man of the year, as if there could be any doubt, is the lovely, poetic and shy Graham Rowntree.
 

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i am almost pissed, but alive enough to say "wtf ?" merry cwistmas, ken - hope you got my card as it was fabulous and terribly expensive, not to mention the postage. woe is me.