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Was just trying to make an appontment with a client. I offered him a time on Friday. He says "Oh no, I can't do Friday I'm going to Lourdes" At least that's what my brain heard: Lourdes, as in the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France.

So I start wittering about having been brought up as a Catholic and my old mum going on pilgrimage there many years ago.

He's giving me a very sideways look and then says rather firmly " I'm going to Lords to watch the cricket."
 
Indeed, the second Test against India starts there on Thursday.

Frankly, Patrick, you need to know these important, adult things if you want to get anywhere in the grown up world of business!

Harrumph!!

And that's before we talk about the theraputic qualities of the home of cricket as opposed to a cave in South West France!
 
Yves Geza said:
Indeed, the second Test against India starts there on Thursday.

Frankly, Patrick, you need to know these important, adult things if you want to get anywhere in the grown up world of business!

Harrumph!!

And that's before we talk about the theraputic qualities of the home of cricket as opposed to a cave in South West France!
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Got to admit I did feel I'd beamed in from an alternate universe for a moment. And as you can tell I'm not really into watching sport. My son tells me there was a football match yesterday.
 
Oh, the past two weeks have seen the World festival of wendy ball but that's not important and it's certainly not sport!

In case you need to sound informed or interested, the Germans won by scoring one wendy whereas the Argentinians didn't!
 
mickledore said:
My wife is called Wendy and she certainly didn't score last night.
(Or if she did she was offside!)
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I think you'd have known if your wife had scored with the German football team. Especially as it was televised in front of god knows how many millions.

Must be nice to have a popular sport named after her though ;)
 
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