Beware the Ice

19th February 2010

I thought I had been hit by a Scud

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There’s a lot of frustration in me today, and a lot of that is down to the fact I’m typing this with one hand. I’ll start from the beginning. In my youth my parents packed me off to boarding school, a Harry Potter style kingdom full of red faced boys from Monmouth and the Mendips. We had a game called Space Invaders, and it essentially involved lots of pre-teen unfortunates – Pegg, Payne (literally), myself – being lined up like skittles while the sporting legends launched rugby balls at us. Hilarious.

Anyway, I thought I’d left that behind, only I now find myself playing out the Polish version of this comedy. It’s meltdown season in PL, a time when three months of ice goe ...

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