Green Man wrote:
Wyot, will win it he is great tiddlywinks, Subbuteo, chess and he can play wife carrying whilst chasing cheese down and steep hill blindfolded of course. He can read War and Peace within 15 minutes whilst translating it from Russian to Arabic with the book upside down.
Honey is the national champion for both extreme ironing and shin kicking. "Don't fuck with Liverpool" is tattooed on both of her biceps. Not forgetting starting a conga to themes songs of the Liver Birds and Bread in the melody to the Brookside theme tune.
My Russian is passable but I am weak on Arabic GM...
You are spot on with Tolstoy. Along with Proust, my favourite novelist. I treated myself on Honeymoon to a re-read (4th) of War & Peace. Lounging on the sands of St Lucia, I could have swun out to "rat island"; a barren little rock owned by St Lucia's finest writer & Nobel winner Derek Walcott. One of my favourite poets - thoroughly recommended.
Just call me a "man of the people"!
You make our precious Honey sound like a frightening lesbian bare-knuckled boxer..