The current series is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Questionmaster Clive Myrie referred to it as "the toughest quiz on television" which just isn't true. University Challenge is by far and away the toughest quiz on television and Only Connect isn't too far behind.
Mastermind is a poor imitation of its former self and I swear the questions have got much easier than when taxi driver Fred Houseago won it way back in 1980.
In two minutes of general knowledge questions, some of the contestants are scoring just four or five which is dreadful.
I am at a loss to understand why some of these people subject themselves to what must be torture for them with their severely restricted knowledge.
Some just suffer from the fright of the black chair while others just have scant knowledge.
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Yesterday I mentioned problems on the railway, but whilst I awaited the train destined for Norwich there was a lighter moment.
Just before the train arrived a group of very young children arrived on the platform shouting and squealing as only young people do. They looked to be around three or four years of age. They had three adults with them so obviously were from a nursery school or similar.
One of the adults seemed to be in charge and was instructing the children how they were to behave once on the train.
"This is not our train. It belongs to the train company. The people on the train won't want to hear you screaming and shouting.
"If you make lots of noise they may not let you on the train and that would spoil our entire day."
I left the platform with the youngsters still all shouting because that's what young children do. It did provide an amusing aside.
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I caught a discussion yesterday somewhere or other on how much nicer people are at Christmas and how the festive season rubs off on them. On those grounds let's start Christmas around February. Now I'm going to go into Christmas denial and I promise I won't mention it again until the start of December - honest.
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Yesterday was the AGM of our forget me not cafe which we hold on the first and third Tuesdays of each month.
The cafe is held under the auspices of Hethersett Dementia Support Group but it's not just for people living with dementia and their carers. Quite some time ago we extended it to anyone who fancied a cup of coffee or tea and a chat and it has become a great village success story.
We now get up to 40 people and seem to be thriving and it's a delight to be able to help in a small way - I put the tables and chairs out and then put them away again - Cooee Mr Shifter.
Yesterday I did more washing up than I have done for some considerable time. It's much harder than loading and unloading a dishwasher.
It was a good meeting with lots of soup, much of which was made by the other threequarters who was up earlier than the crack of dawn to chop, blend and do many other things.
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I have subscribed to Spotify for goodness knows how long. It's part of what I refer to as a total entertainment centre on my phone. With my phone I can listen to music, read books, play games, talk to people, write blogs, listen to podcasts and any number of other things.
I never have to worry about being bored as long as I have charge in my phone.
So imagine my delight when I was fiddling around with Spotify on Monday evening to find that if you are a subscriber to Spotify Premium you get thousands of audio books included.
My first thought was that these audio books would just be old stock, but not so. There are many best sellers and new releases included. I have just started listening to the new Rory Stewart book which I had considered buying. I have mentioned before how difficult I find listening and concentrating on audiobooks. I think I need to re-educate my brain.
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An old quiz chestnut is to list the ways you can lose a wicket at cricket. There are all the obvious ones such as bowled, caught, run out, lbw, stumped and then you start to struggle. But there are further ones which are hit wicket, hit the ball twice, handled the ball and obstructed the field. There's also the option taken in some friendly games of a batsman retiring.
There is another form of dismissal that up until yesterday had only happened six times in top class cricket. This is timed out and it happened to Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews in a World Cup match against Bangladesh.
The law states that a new batter must be ready to receive a bowl within three minutes of the previous wicket falling. In the World Cup this has been cut to two minutes.
Mathews had a problem with his helmet and wasn't ready to be bowled at within the two minutes and was timed out in attempting to have his helmet replaced. Of course the wearing of helmets is a relatively modern part of the game. Had he faced a ball and then decided to change the helmet that would have been ok.
And of course all of you with no interest in cricket won't have a clue of what I've been talking about.