Will Brown
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crash crashes lots orderly people time
People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.
art life monument possibly putting until
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
infinitely irritation lacking subtle
Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.
rule smaller
As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
board gain high letters player scrabble shut slam upset
Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.
life matter mean telling turn turtle
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
expect onions school sticks strings wear
When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.
time
There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.
arm breakfast childhood free happiest looking moments spent
Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift.
blazer bowls people played school wore
In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers.
area cloak itself jealousy memoirs might religion tends though
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
battalion cameron landed
My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.
bringing clear consulting dictionary generally insisted irritated occurs opponents placed scrabble throughout
Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
catty consummate literary
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.