[Varley]

Jig saws keep one off the booze? No wonder I stay away from this and other rest home pass-times. Chess and GO should be the only idlers' comforts. The latter I used to play (before I started to win) with a teetotaller although as most of the time this was over the net he could not know if I was sneaking a swiftie or not) the former I play with his baby brother (who still offers the odd game as I still lose - perhaps the one unattractive trait of the family), and a contemporary gent (who I will continue playing with as equally unattractively I have got his game nailed now too!) neither are teetotal and with the venues usually pubs the afternoons are rather fattening (bitter, even Bushy's stretches both waistband and bladder). Not to the youngster of course but he has still to realise what his next 40 years will bring him!