But I just had to mention a phrase used a few days ago on Breakfast TV by political correspondent Chris Mason. After hearing the ramblings of Robert Jenrick who has the grand title of Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government which probably means very little, Chris Mason described what he said as "the square root of diddly squat."
I think that phrase could be used for quite a lot of what is happening at the moment.
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I have taken to having a daily dose of Kefir which is a yoghurt style product with live bacteria that is supposed to be good for your gut. A pro-biotic that grows overnight in the fridge. No idea what the real benefits of it are but watch this space as they say. At least we can now say that we have something growing in the fridge that isn't mould.
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Don't you just love those adverts that try to make you buy things because they are at the end of a sale. You know the kind of thing; "Half price sofas in our biggest sale ever but grab them quickly as the sale ends on Monday." Of course the "biggest sale ever" will be superceded in quick order by the next "biggest sale ever" which will be even bigger than the previous "biggest sale ever". Of course if the biggest sale ever continues to get bigger they will end up giving the stuff away and somehow I don't see that happening.
This blog is a kind of mix of things - a kind of pot pourri of rubbish. A bumper bundle of things flowing through my mind. Like why do professional tennis players insist on bouncing the ball 20 times before they serve while six would be excessive? Watching Novak Djokovic serve at the French Open is like watching paint dry. Every serve takes him the best part of 20 seconds.
Think about how much time can be saved by applying stricter time limits on ball bouncing or, indeed, restricting the number of bounces. Djokovic took an average of 20 seconds every serve. Cut that by half and tennis matches would be much shorter. So here goes the statistical anorak in me again.
If Djokovic (or Nadal who bounces a similar number of times) cut their 20 seconds to 10 seconds they would save themselves 10 seconds per point. Say an average of six points per service game (many have a lot more) and that's a saving of one minute per game. In a set of say 10 games (and many sets have more) that would be a saving in time of 10 minutes. Over a five set match that would be a saving of almost an hour. Statistics can be amazing at times as this one proves. Mind you today we have Djokovic v Nedal in the final. It could be a long old match.
Anyway enough of the anorak for today.