Ashes to Ashes

Dave's Blog over at Electric Halibut usually never fails to entertain me. That is until the great 'sporting' event known as The Ashes started. Looking at his blog, you can see Dave is a big Cricket fan, which is strange for an otherwise intelligent and interesting bloke. As you may have gathered, I'm not a fan. I don't totally hate Cricket, I can see the attraction for the bloke with the Bat and the fella with the ball. It's just everyone else 'playing' and those watching that I can't understand - I mean, it's sooooo boring. And to make matters worse we (England) appear to be crap at it. From what I can tell, we managed to beat Australia last year for the first time since 1987, in a tournament that only has two teams. This 'victory' prompted an open top bus tour of London, Tea for the team at Downling Street, Sports personality of the year awards, and honours being bestowed by the Monarch. This reminded me of the office monkey we have here, who not only retains employment on a yearly basis, but also manages to receive good reviews for being rubbish.

The morale of the story is;

Be rubbish at your job and set very low expectations for yourself, consistently fail to meet these expectations so that on the rare occasions you manage to meet them you will be bestowed with riches and rewards...