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<\/p>\nThe trouble with being smug is that sooner or later, you get your comeuppance.<\/p>\n
For instance, I am well aware that I can be annoyingly smug about having nothing wrong with me at the age of 74 \u2013 well, nothing physical anyway: No aches and pains, no stick, no specs, no dentist\u2019s bills and so on\u2026<\/p>\n
Worse still, I keep going on about the nutrition supplement I take instead of pharmaceutical products.<\/p>\n
For instance, if I do get a niggling little twinge, I just take more of the stuff \u2013 as happened the other day when the big knuckle on my right hand started to ache. Sure enough, I took another helping in the evening for a few days, and the ache went away.<\/p>\n
But then it came back \u2013 and that shouldn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n
For about a week, I have been wondering whether I should share this on the blog \u2013 after all, it\u2019s a bit dishonest not to report all the news \u2013 good and bad.<\/p>\n
I was thinking about this as I doled out the morning spoonful \u2013 and if you are anywhere in the United Kingdom at the moment, you will not be surprised to hear that breakfast is being taken in the cockpit: We\u2019re just embarking on the summer we seemed to have missed\u2026<\/p>\n
Also, those who have been paying attention will be aware of the new cockpit table \u2013 or, to put it another way – the new single-piece washboard wedged on top of the tiller so that it doubles as a cockpit table. It\u2019s the perfect size, and you\u2019re never going to need a cockpit table and a washboard at the same time, are you?<\/p>\n
It is also exceptionally beautiful because of the month I spent in Amsterdam, giving it twelve coats of varnish.<\/p>\n
\u2026with the result that now it gets stuck in the grooves, and I have to give it a thump to free it.<\/p>\n
The consequences of the thump are why I am telling you all this. The thump has to be on the inside. If I am administering it from the cockpit, I reach down and bang as if thumping on a table to applaud a particularly notable speech. Job done.<\/p>\n
If I am inside, the ergonomics are rather different. Somehow, it comes more naturally to punch the companionway with my fist.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been doing this every morning: Knuckles on one end. Eighteen mil plywood on the other.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve stopped doing it now.<\/p>\n
Yes, exactly\u2026<\/p>\n
The same effect can be achieved with the table-thumping technique (after all, it is a table the rest of the time).<\/p>\n
And guess what? My knuckle doesn\u2019t hurt any more.<\/p>\n
Do think I can claim the supplement has intelligence-enhancing properties?<\/p>\n
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A one-piece washboard…<\/p>\n The trouble with being smug is that sooner or later, you get your comeuppance. For instance, I am well aware that I can be annoyingly smug about having nothing wrong with me at the age of 74 \u2013 well, nothing physical anyway: No aches and pains, no stick, no specs, no dentist\u2019s bills and so … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_1401-225x300.jpg\")