If you were to appear on Mastermind what would your specialist subject be? Lighthearted?

How about pseudonyms Oldbat. Q. How did you come up with your GN name?

What was your friends specialist subject?

My friend made it to the mastermind semi final a few years ago.

I would like to think of a topic I could answer just one question on!

The ability to look busy doing nothing.
Browsing the internet.
Taking ages to look for something I have put in a safe place.

Putting one’s foot in it.

The art of whinging

The art of catastrophising

Opportunities I have missed through fear

Crisis I have fretted about and lost sleep over which have never happened.

Embarrassing moments in my life when I have wished the ground would open and swallow me up.

Witty remarks I should have made, but thought about too late.

Books I have never finished.
Clothes I have bought because I will lose weight.
Films I have watched to the end because they’re bound to get better (should take a hint from the way I treat books).
People I’ve insulted without meaning to do so.

Things I have bumped into in my car since 1978. (a workman’s tarmac roller; a parked moped; a traffic cone which got caught underneath and was dragged along)

Inedible food I have sweated over to produce, since 1968

Garments I have started to knit but never finished