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My dream Olympiad

With the Olympics only a few days away now I was thinking about the impressive diversity of the sports that contribute to it nowadays. The ancient Greeks would be amazed to see that golf and tennis are now included. I am amazed too. Although I used to enjoy a game of tennis, providing a public service to the less-able and less self-confident, I tend to subscribe to Mark Twain’s views on golf (‘A g Read more of this blog post »
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“A man must pick his friends with care but his enemies more carefully still.”
― Martin Dukes, Worm Winds of Zanzibar
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“Alex had returned home to find a most unwelcome development, which had arrived through the letterbox in the superficially innocent form of a brown envelope. It might as well have been a letter bomb for its explosive impact on Alex’s day. It contained his school report.”
― Martin Dukes, Caught in a Moment
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“Life is a blink in the eye of eternity, too brief to be wasted, not even a moment of it.”
― Martin Dukes, Worm Winds of Zanzibar
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